Community Comments from the first three Forums held on
June 30, July 10 and 13, 2004
Passive Community Uses
- Open and private spaces- like Quinn Strong Park
- Open Area /Multi-functional use
- Combination of informal /formal, some natural with some formality
- On-street parking
- Not formal-format, no topiary
- Pretty, peaceful, resting space with color
- Colors / colorful / flowers
- Butterfly gardens / senses
- Space for children gathering
- Sharing of neighboring uses
- Tranquil
- Informal green
- Application of senses
- Park should be a place where people want to spend time
- Dignified
- Passive
- Lots of trees, lots of flowers
- Town values / Drawn to sense of community
- Meet the scale of our community
- Pedestrian friendly
- For all ages
- Gazebo
- Pathways to vistas
- Terraced space
- Street trees / parking
- Walking paths like Cranes Roost
- Cluster benches for interaction
- Sculpture of History / City representation
- Benches, Places to sit
- Use pergolas as transition areas
- Plant Orange trees to tie into historical aspect
- Shade- either as a structure or trees
- Must be dramatically lit at night
- Quad area like a collage campus with water feature
- Supply parking near City Hall
- Low maintenance water feature
- Improve off road bike transportation and connect to parks
- Make sure all surface parking areas are well landscaped/ well detailed
- No duplication of surrounding open space functions
- Columns too formal
- No re-creation of Winter Park
- No heavy columns
- Design for low maintenance
- No playgrounds, tennis courts or sport facilities
- Do not need another Lake Lily, make this park distinctive
- No retirement community concept
- No Medjool Palms - they look out of place
Active Community Uses
- Farmers Market
- Southern gardens, combined use passive and active
- Concerts in the park
- Founder Day celebration here and special events
- Movies in the Park
- Winter Park Tiffany event - use Maitland Park for special events
- Runs / Walks linkage
- "Like Winter Park / Park Avenue"
- Concert / Amphitheater / Symphony (60-80 in symphony), stage for events
- Place for kids to play / picnic
- Dog Park
- Active park
- Mixture of Public and Private Park spaces
- Green space that could be used for special events
- Support commercial facilities around park
- Multi-functional parks
- Gathering place
- Low maintenance / Low expenses - KISS
- Park should be focal point and define community like Park Ave and Cocoa Beach
- Pedestrian friendly uses and flow of uses
- Must link to other green spaces and park sites
- Water feature, interactive for play, to draw people into the park, fountain at entrance to City Hall
- Relocate existing trees that can be moved
- Evaluate existing trees to see if health is in decline before saving
- Use mature trees
- Internet capability
- Make sure to match architecture of City Hall
- Use parking area for farmers market to preserve grass areas
- See the City Hall- Widen the distance between commercial buildings at intersection of 17-92 and Horatio
- Safe crossing from other facilities
- Use xeric principles, concerned about water consumption, no grass
- No tennis courts
- Large space for performances. Open area- but not empty all the time
Do Not Support Concept A
- Little league / soccer
- Peacocks
- Save all existing trees
- Too separated as an oval, design must link downtown
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