The District of Squamish plans to construct a $340,000 neighborhood park at the end of No Name Road in Squamish. The district is seeking the community’s input in a survey, which is open to residents until May 12.
Suggestions from the initial survey include preserving the site’s natural character, incorporating play features for children aged 0-12, providing seating options, improving access to the dike, and retaining existing trees, paths, and pump track.
Based on the feedback, an arborist and environmental consultant will recommend on preserving the site’s natural character. The contractor has already completed a site survey, tree arborist report, solar study, and slope study of the path to the dike and brainstormed potential ideas.
The district would like to know how the space is being used currently and what the community desires in the future. The community input will be used to develop concept ideas, which will be presented to the North Yards neighbourhood for online and in-person feedback before moving on to the detailed design phase of the space.
Funding for this project will come from Community Amenity Contributions, which is cash that property developers provide to help meet community needs. The community survey will be live until Sunday, May 12. The district plans to build the park in late and early 2025, which is expected to be open to the community in 2025.
This is classic District of Squamish. Using a ton of money to build something that isn’t needed and not asking for public input until the plans are already in place. This area is already used as a park and pump track by local residents. $340,000 would be much better spent creating new park or green spaces in the neighborhood where none currently exist. This is a very tiny area and adding formal park structures is just not needed here. The kids love to free/wild play here and making it a formal park will ruin that for them. Additionally, lighting for the park will negatively impact local wildlife that also use this area frequently. The only thing that is needed here is the removal of invasive blackberry bushes and replace them with native species, which would cost a few hundred dollars. Spend $340K putting in proper crosswalks instead.
$340,000 ?????? “recommend on preserving the site’s natural character” can I have this contract and will make sure that the site will be “preserved in its natural character”!