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Palmdale park needs assessment meetings begin Jan. 13

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Joshua Hills Park [contributed]
Joshua Hills Park [contributed]
PALMDALE – The city of Palmdale is encouraging residents to attend the Los Angeles Countywide Park Needs Assessment meetings in Palmdale to help determine future park developments, improvements and possible funding options.

The city will host two meetings.

The first meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, at Marie Kerr Park Recreation Center, 2723 Rancho Vista Boulevard. It will focus on park areas on the west side of Palmdale, from approximately Sierra Highway and heading westward.

The second meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, at Palmdale Oasis Park Recreation Center, 3850 East Avenue S. That meeting will focus on park areas from roughly Sierra Highway and heading eastward.

A map of the study areas is available at www.LACountyParkNeeds.org.

“These meetings are designed to get feedback from our community as to what park features or facilities are most needed,” stated Palmdale Director of Recreation and Culture Keri Smith. “Residents may bring their lists of potential projects to the meetings, where items will be discussed and prioritized. Up to 10 prioritized projects will be submitted to the county for future consideration.”

The Los Angeles Countywide Park Needs Assessment, which began in March 2015 and will conclude June 2016, will assess park needs in 189 Study Areas, including cities and unincorporated areas.

At the conclusion, there will be a visionary list of projects and cost estimates, in order of priority, for each Study Area. It will identify future opportunities for parks and recreation throughout the county by Study Area.

The Park Needs Assessment will assist cities and unincorporated areas in future park planning. Results could also be used to leverage federal and state resources, and guide local funding decisions.

For more information, visit www.LACountyParkNeeds.org.

[Information via news release from the city of Palmdale.]

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4 comments for "Palmdale park needs assessment meetings begin Jan. 13"

  1. Thanks for the New Playground at Joshua Hills Park. If possible could a slide be added?

  2. I realize that these meetings are for the unincorporated parks of the Antelope Valley but my thoughts apply to city or county parks.

    Why would the park designers place the basketball courts that attract teenagers next to the children’s areas? I know their are many folks that will no longer take their small children to Domenic Mossari because of the teenagers using and hanging out at the courts.

    The basketball courts are needed and provide great recreation however they should be at the opposite side of the park. The layout of Desert Sands is great. Both groups get their recreational needs without interfering with each other.

    • I think the city staff would agree that lessons were learned from Domenic Mossari Park…but I’m actually not sure it wasn’t built by the county. All those houses out there along 47th were built in the county and then annexed into the city. When was the park built?

  3. Demonstrating once again how much the county knows and cares about us…

    I wanted to see the border they were using to separate the east from the west, and found out that as far as the county is concerned the meeting for East Palmdale is the one at Marie Kerr, and the one at Oasis is for West Palmdale. So their interest in their “study areas” apparently doesn’t include knowing what parks are actually in the areas.

    People should turn out to these things just to let the county know that we won’t take the short end of the stick that they undoubtedly intend for us lying down.