Return to The Future Park

    1^st Public Design Meeting

    Suggestions From Suggestion Box

• How about a Booce Ball area?  It would probably be popular with retirees, especially mean.

• I would like to see a covered area that used the artwork (tiles).  This would provide shade and a good picnic lunch area.  This could also be a good area for older people to visit and play chess.  Some parks allow groups to call and reserve this covered area in advance.  A good example of this is at Magnusen. Also there is a covered area at Bryant Park.  I would also like to see toddler slides as well as play for older kids.  I would also like to see some of the softer ground surfaces.  Maybe the small sand box area could also be under a covered area with benches all the way around for parents and others to sit and watch the kids while they visit with each other.  My last statement is that my kids love the swings and the wading pool!!!  Thank you – I’ll help with this project as much as I can!

• Benches – my students could design/make benches.

• Benches around the pool would be nice when I watch my children swim. Also if you do a soft mat under the play stuff, if it comes in different colors it would be neat to see it in a design of something (a huge fish, tree shapes).

• I’d like to see grass surrounding the existing wading pool, as opposed to the current cement, which is not very inviting or safe for little kids playing around the pool.

• Please do not open access from park onto 92^nd.  Nighttime traffic will increase.  Now people don’t go over fence.

• No pedestrian access on 92^nd to park.  Bench seating among butterfly garden.

• Access through to 92^nd street is very important – the more access the better – for safety and use!

• Types of play equipment – boat, climbing wall  Other Parks You Like – Broadview Thompson, Webster, Salmon Bay

• I like the equipment that is there – would like to see more equipment that covers larger span of ages.  Would like a steering wheel, climbing tubes like Webster, and tube slices, and twirly slides.  A bathroom with a sink would be wonderful. We like the summer playground program and the wading pool and the swings.  Other Parks You Like – Webster, Gilman

• Types of Play Equipment – climbing walls, bridges, plastic slide.

• Make park more appealing to children of all ages.  Would like a pre-school area somewhat separated.

• Play equipment similar to the equipment at Salmon Bay or Broadview parks.  Equipment suitable for toddlers.  Tennis Backboard.

• Make tennis courts double as activity court i.e.: basketball, wall ball, 4 square etc. – a cement area for ball playing.

• I have been going to the playground since I was 4.  Now I’m 13.  9 years of going to that park and honestly I don’t ever want to see it go.  I live a block away from the park and I hang our there almost every day.  If the park turns into a baby park I will never go there ever again. Ideas: There should be a place to skateboard, roller blade, etc.  Teenagers should be able to hang out without being bored.  I think there should be some way to divide the babys away from the older kids.  I don’t think anything should be too little kiddy.  There should be merry go round, swings, little slide, and a climbing structure.  The swings should stay.  Really, I don’t like anything about this.

• A walking path around the park, playfields, school.  The path might eventually connect to Carkeek Park, Blue Ridge parks, North Beach beach access, and Golden Gardens Park.

• Keep: pool, swings, tennis courts, trees/ shade/ cool/ babies and elders.  Intergenerational, separate young child area and older child area (like Webster Park). Different types of areas of play i.e. Vegetation, open, equipment, and pool. Perhaps creative play through levels or terraces. Children’s creativity in design (name it). Water fountains, Hopscotch/ 4 square painted on. Part of theme -> Virtues (children’s drawing) Respect/ Consideration/ Unity.