Greenlands Centre Wellington Community Visions Workshop

Parks

What is your vision for parks in TCW?

• Places for wildlife: not too sanitized
• Green linkage between parks
• Accessible: link to community, also for wheelchair and other handicapped people
• Lots of parks
• Look at creative precedents: Ottawa, Calgary, Waterloo.
• Mandatory linkages in housing developments
• Responsibility for maintenance shared between residents and local government
• Now approach corporate stakeholders and service clubs to collaborate
• A plan for parks so the right lands are protected before the community grows.

Where would you like to see future parks located?

• GRCA must protect river valley frontage before housing comes
• Preserve County deeded land at Aboyne for a park
• Through a study, assess which features should be preserved

How do we expand and improve parks in TCW?

• Maintain existing paths plus flora and fauna
• Don’t sacrifice parks for parking:  no pavement except for wheelchairs.
• Need refuse cans, bathrooms in some parks
• Park spaces integrated throughout the municipality with industrial and commercial uses
• Need clarity about accountability for park planning and maintenance
• Family friendly
• Idea: residents each buy a square foot, as was done in Confederation Park, Fergus.

How does the community benefit from parks?

• Enhance the environment generally
• Flora and fauna themselves are a benefit
• Teaching and recreating children
• Builds community
• Health benefits of beauty and social contacts - especially mothers and fathers with small children at home; the elderly
• Health of the natural environment
• Definitely attractive to developers as a selling point

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