At our recent SCCO meeting we discussed possibilities for Santa Clara’s undeveloped parks. The undeveloped parks are Bobolink, Ferndale, Lone Oak, Terra Linda, Wendover and the Madison school area community park. The city does not have a big enough budget to develop these parks at this time, so any changes to the park would likely have to be through a volunteer group.
Two concepts that could be pursued are a dog park and natural playgrounds.
Here’s an over the top dog park in Illinois, called ‘Wiggly Field’. We could start with just a fence and some maintenance free benches.
Here’s an example of a play structure in a ‘natural playground’ The City of Eugene wants any improvements to parks to be as maintenance free as possible. Structures like the one in the photo are perfect. Note that part of the volunteer improvements to Awbrey Park include basalt columns that are being used as benches.
If you have interest in helping improve a Santa Clara park, please come to our next SCCO meeting or email us .
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