Oak Grove Park - October 2014 Update
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Update on Oak Grove Park (September 2013) by Debby Cook
I’d like to take this opportunity to introduce myself to you, and give you some information about the Neighborhood Conservation (NC) project I’m heading up. My name is Debby Cook and I live on N. Randolph Street. Last fall, the plan I presented about improving Oak Grove Park received enough votes to become Cherrydale’s current NC project. Since then, a dedicated group of Cherrydalers created the survey that many of you filled out this spring (thank you!) and we’ve been busy analyzing the data in order to have a report to present to the community for a vote later this year.
As it happens, Arlington County also has plans to improve Oak Grove Park. The County plans will be underway as of this fall. The improvements they are planning include the following:
To be clear, the above improvements to Oak Grove Park have nothing to do with the Neighborhood Conservation project for which I am the captain. In fact, we’ll be working with a different designer, Kathy von Bredow, when our project gets to the top of the NC queue and can begin the design phase. However, before that happens, I would love to have a group of motivated Cherrydalers who want to work with me on this project (help me investigate current renovations of Arlington County parks & playgrounds to see what we like that the County is doing, research what is possible in the park/playground design world these days that County might not now be doing, etc.). We will also incorporate the input from the people who completed the survey this spring as well as the parameters the County provides us when it is our turn to start the design of the Park.
So, if you are interested in working on the Oak Grove Park NC project, please send me an email ([email protected]) with Oak Grove Park in the subject line.
Also, if you’d like to see some parks in Arlington, these are some that were suggested by Ms. Von Bredow:
High View Park (just opened)
1945 North Dinwiddie Street
Arlington, VA 22207
Lyon Village Park
1800 N. Highland St.
Arlington, VA 22201
Barcroft Park (has a big net climber)
4200 S. Four Mile Run Dr.
Arlington, VA 22206
Butler Homes Park Phase 1 (another big net climber)
Intersection of 1st St. South and Barton
Drew Park
2410 S. Kenmore Street
Arlington, VA 20006
Nina Park
800 24th St. S.
Arlington, VA 22202
Parkhurst
5820 20th Road North
Arlington, VA 22205
Big Walnut Park
1915 North Harrison Street
Arlington, VA 22207
Bluemont
She also suggested checking out some of the parks in PG county (Indian Springs and DC, for example there is one just off 395 and near Results gym and another that looks like a giant ship, it’s down along the Anacostia -- I know that ships aren’t what we are going for, but consider it food for thought).
There is even a park in Pittsboro, NC that Ms. Von Bredow suggested looking at for ideas about natural materials in parks: click here.
As it happens, Arlington County also has plans to improve Oak Grove Park. The County plans will be underway as of this fall. The improvements they are planning include the following:
- an entrance from N. 17th Street that will include stone columns and an archway with the name of the park
- a graded path wide enough to meet ADA requirements (6 feet) that will circumnavigate the park (going from N. 17th street to the left of the existing play structure and to the right around the soccer field)
- the existing chain link fence will come down and another fence will go up
- improvement of the existing soccer field (this may not begin until spring or summer of 2014 but will include killing the existing grass, installing a sprinkler system, and new top soil and Bermuda grass)
- the placement of one low (2 tier) bleachers along the west side of the soccer field adjacent to the new path
- new trees will be planted (45!)
- benches and a bike rack
To be clear, the above improvements to Oak Grove Park have nothing to do with the Neighborhood Conservation project for which I am the captain. In fact, we’ll be working with a different designer, Kathy von Bredow, when our project gets to the top of the NC queue and can begin the design phase. However, before that happens, I would love to have a group of motivated Cherrydalers who want to work with me on this project (help me investigate current renovations of Arlington County parks & playgrounds to see what we like that the County is doing, research what is possible in the park/playground design world these days that County might not now be doing, etc.). We will also incorporate the input from the people who completed the survey this spring as well as the parameters the County provides us when it is our turn to start the design of the Park.
So, if you are interested in working on the Oak Grove Park NC project, please send me an email ([email protected]) with Oak Grove Park in the subject line.
Also, if you’d like to see some parks in Arlington, these are some that were suggested by Ms. Von Bredow:
High View Park (just opened)
1945 North Dinwiddie Street
Arlington, VA 22207
Lyon Village Park
1800 N. Highland St.
Arlington, VA 22201
Barcroft Park (has a big net climber)
4200 S. Four Mile Run Dr.
Arlington, VA 22206
Butler Homes Park Phase 1 (another big net climber)
Intersection of 1st St. South and Barton
Drew Park
2410 S. Kenmore Street
Arlington, VA 20006
Nina Park
800 24th St. S.
Arlington, VA 22202
Parkhurst
5820 20th Road North
Arlington, VA 22205
Big Walnut Park
1915 North Harrison Street
Arlington, VA 22207
Bluemont
She also suggested checking out some of the parks in PG county (Indian Springs and DC, for example there is one just off 395 and near Results gym and another that looks like a giant ship, it’s down along the Anacostia -- I know that ships aren’t what we are going for, but consider it food for thought).
There is even a park in Pittsboro, NC that Ms. Von Bredow suggested looking at for ideas about natural materials in parks: click here.