On April 12, 2012, the San Antonio City Council approved a partnership with San Antonio Sports SPARK parks to expand school playgrounds to include sports fields and walking trails. The parks will be open to the community after 3 p.m. They will be planned using the local resources of architecture students at the University of Texas, San Antonio. The program is starting with one elementary school, Sky Harbor. The principal of the school, Marina Avila, noted that many local residents do not have a safe place to walk; thus, the program is particularly beneficial to the community. San Antonio Sports SPARK is an initiative with San Antonio Sports, a nonprofit sports commission, and the City of San Antonio and the University of Texas at San Antonio College of Architecture. The program’s goal is to build 100 new school parks in Bexar County, TX, over a 10-year period. The SPARK School Park Program was created in 1983 and is a nonprofit organization operating out of the city of Houston’s mayor’s office.

Source. KENS5²³ and San Antonio Sports.²⁴