How do I help protect the Darby?
Nearly twenty years ago, ten local governments in Franklin County signed the Darby Accord — an agreement to protect Ohio’s most biologically diverse streams by creating the largest public park complex in Central Ohio. Now, the Accord signatories are planning to rewrite the Accord. Let’s remind them of their great park promise and let them know they need to keep it!
Please consider copying and pasting the below message through the submission portal linked below. Feel free to submit your message through any parcel on the map — the important thing is that your voice gets through.
The main goal of the Big Darby Accord is to create a 25,000-acre network of protected public parkland (and 30,000 acres total of conservation land) in western Franklin County. Nearly twenty years ago, the Accord member jurisdictions publicly committed to protecting the Darby and to giving the people of Central Ohio a signature public land asset on the scale of Cuyahoga Valley National Park.
The Accord member jurisdictions must keep their promise to the public by ensuring that the Accord’s main goal of a 25,000 to 30,000-acre conservation network remains intact and front and center in any amended Accord agreement.
Every great place deserves a great park. Keeping the Accord’s promise and realizing its vision will give Central Ohio a public land experience of not only regional, but national significance—one that boosts ecological resilience, enhances quality of life, and elevates Central Ohio’s status as a destination and desirable place to live.
