Wood scaffold planks chico ca3/17/2024 Thinking about a solution to this problem is what led me to this week’s walk. And, of course, we need all the housing we can get: tearing down housing for a park would simply exacerbate an already tough situation. But as we all know, that is by no means realistic in this day and age: the cost to assemble an acre or two even in the city’s most inexpensive neighborhood would still be far more than the city would be able to afford. Given enough money, of course, the city could simply buy up a couple of adjacent residential properties, bulldoze them, and construct a park on the resulting land. It is much harder to do when you are dealing with an established community that is almost entirely built out, which is the case with Redwood City’s residential areas. That area’s parks add up to 39 acres, meaning that the Shores has about 9.5 acres of parkland for each 1,000 residents.)Ĭreating sufficient park space is relatively easy when one is constructing a planned community like Redwood Shores. (For example, according to Wikipedia, Redwood Shores has a population of about 4,100 persons. When you take into account where each of the city’s parks are located relative to where people live, there are distinct pockets where the city falls well short of the standard, and areas where it exceed that standard. But the aptly-named Edgewood Park is located on the very edge of a part of Redwood City that is hard for most to get to other than by car. That park alone is some 467 acres, so there’s that. To be fair, a portion of Edgewood Park (which is not one of the listed parks) lies within Redwood City’s borders, and its adjacency to the city makes it a park that one might reasonably add in to Redwood City’s total. The result? 147 acres, which is indeed well shy of the city’s stated goal. To check, I added up the sizes of the 25 parks for which locations (and sizes) are listed on the city’s Parks webpage - including, I should note, Union Cemetery, since the city’s Parks and Recreation department does have some responsibility for it, even though many wouldn’t consider it a park in the typical sense. Something I read recently stated that Redwood City was falling behind its goal of providing “3.0 acres of active parkland per 1,000 of population.” With a current population of around 87,000 residents, Redwood City would have to provide 261 acres of “active parkland” to meet that goal. As for those who are more comfortable with Spanish, use this link. The survey, in English, can be found here. You only need to supply an email address, a password (that you make up), and your zip code. Although you need to create an account to fill out the survey, you aren’t required to supply your name (you can, if you choose, though). I would encourage everyone who lives and/or works in Redwood City to do likewise the more responses the city gets, the more meaningful the results. I just completed it myself, and it takes about 10-15 minutes to do so. Before getting into today’s topic, Redwood City is conducting an online “Community Satisfaction Survey”.
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