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Join the Grass Creek Park Working Group: Help plan the future of Grass Creek Park by applying to serve on an advisory working group.
Residents are invited to apply to serve on a working group to help the City envision and shape the future of Grass Creek Park — and create the guiding principles for the development of a 24-acre parcel of adjoining land.
The City, in collaboration with the Pittsburgh Benefit Fund, wants to create the Grass Creek Park Working Group to help them develop this vision for this new parkland over the next 18 months.
Applicants have until April 1 to express their interest in assisting staff and consultants on the overall visioning process. The stakeholder working group to be composed of interested citizens will do this by:
- Giving their feedback on the overall visioning process and timelines;
- Ensuring ongoing and inclusive community consultation throughout the visioning process;
- Being key contacts/ambassadors for the project in the community;
- Being the body that assists staff and /or consultant in making key decisions throughout the visioning process;
- Informing staff of impacts and issues from the community;
The working group will be comprised of:
- Up to four members of the executive of the Pittsburgh Benefit Fund;
- Up to four district councilors — one being the representative from District 12 (Pittsburgh) and a representative from the Arts Recreation and Community Policies Committee;
- City Staff (Parks Development);
- Up to 10 members of the community at large with a minimum of four being from District 12 (Pittsburgh).
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Appointment to this working group will require attendance at monthly meetings throughout 2011 and 2012.
If you are interested in serving on this working group, please complete the application form at right. This form is also available at City Hall, Clerks Department at 216 Ontario St. Please submit the form with a brief summary of your interest and background by May 7 to:
Liz Cartwright,
Recreation & Leisure Department,
City Hall, 216 Ontario St., Kingston,
ON K7L 2Z3
Or ...
By fax: 613-546-1899.
E-mail: lcartwright@cityofkingston.ca
Further inquiries may be directed to Kristine Hebert at 613-546-4291 ext 1256 or by e-mail to khebert@cityofkingston.ca
Background: expanding beautiful Grass Creek Park
Grass Creek Park is a 51 acre community park located at 2991 Highway 2 in the east end of the City. It is approximately fifteen minutes east of the La Salle Causeway. This park functions as a community park as well as a regional park for major cultural events. It has water frontage on both the Bateau Channel of the St. Lawrence River and along the bay at the mouth of Grass Creek. This park contains a very active sand beach, picnic areas, play equipment, a pavilion, parking, washrooms, a boat launch, open fields, an 'Off-Leash Area' pilot project, rolling hills and trees.
Grass Creek Park is a favourite destination for local and community residents for functions and is it is a very popular destination for family and group picnics. Reoccurring community events continue to be held in this park including: Canada Day celebrations, Sheep Dog Trials, Day Camp Programs, and outdoor music concerts. The MacLachlan Woodworking Museum is located at the front of the site and provides both indoor and outdoor educational displays that promote woodworking history in eastern Ontario.
The City of Kingston purchased the 45 acres of land immediately west of Grass Creek Park at a public auction on August 22, 2007. These lands include rolling farm fields, meadows, trees, two residential dwellings, a small wetland and 178 feet of frontage on the Bateau Channel. These lands share the existing hedgerow that runs the length of the west side of Grass Creek Park.
Over the next 18 months the City, in partnership with the Pittsburgh Benefit Fund, want meet with the community and get ideas on how to integrate the additional 24 acres of new parkland into the existing Grass Creek Park Master Plan. The goal of the process will be to come up with a vision and guiding principles for the park that will result in an integrated and cohesive park that meets the needs of all stakeholders in the community. The City plans on engaging the community in an inclusive process that allow both groups and individuals to express their ideas and thoughts on what the expanded park could look like in the future.
Parks Development staffs are asking interested citizens to sit on an advisory working group to help guide and inform the visioning process over the next 18 months.
