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Arden Oaks Park & Freeway Park Equipment Poll Q6 Please share any additional comments you may have. Answered:18 Skipped:31 # RESPONSES Can't wait for new playgrounds !!! Have a few free-standing things like the "ride" in Arden Oaks 3 (also 1 and 4, but I liked the ride best). Don't have everything clustered in one tight spot. Some kind of bridge is fun. My kids like when they can go between sections a long ways without touching the ground (connected transitons). It should have at least 2 slides and some kind of monkey bars (hanging item). A zip line can be fun. Something that challenges their balance a little could be good. I'm glad there will be swings no matter which style you choose. My kids also liked those diggers (excavator?). It is good to have something they can manipulate and learn coordination. Maybe something they pedal and it causes something else to happen that they can control. Also, perhaps somehting with components kind of like a mousetrap game that they can arrange and trigger creatively. You want a play area that elicits activity, exercise, coordination, uses different muscles and skills, and encourages creativity and fun play. It would also be good to have things that require more than one person to make work so it fosters cooperation. DATE 8/17/2024 7:49 PM 8/17/2024 10:07 AM We live across the street and watch people everyday at park! I love these designs, however 1 8/17/2024 9:21 AM really want to strongly suggest the addition of more swings because the tween & teen aged residents still like to gather at park and the most used equipment for them are the swings! Or even a teeter totter or Balance Board device. Please feel free to contact me for any other questions. My degree is in kinesiology and I'd love to see one piece of equipment geared towards the older age group. Teens/Tweens need movement now more than ever:-) 4 Thank you! Please focus on ninja course style activities for 5-12 year Olds. There are lots of 8/17/2024 7:48 AM parks for younger kids nearby, but less for the middle aged children. 5 It looks great! Would love an upgrade to the playground at Lake Johanna but appreciate that 8/16/2024 6:53 PM things were repaired at the playground! 6 Thank you for this opportunity for input. 8/16/2024 3:14 PM 7 Please make sure the parks also include appearing to older children. The one by us was 8/16/2024 1:09 PM replaced a few years back at Cummings and overall I think it took my son and some of his friends out of it unfortunately. There's one swing and one supported swing and no real big slide. We don't use it like we used to. 8 how about sharing the costs of these so we can decide if we like any of the options we will be 8/16/2024 12:17 PM paying for. 9 We would really appreciate a fence around Freeway park as well due to the proximity to the 8/16/2024 10:53 AM busy entrance ramp. 10 Please include bike racks 8/16/2024 9:42 AM 11 Please keep the basketball/pickleball court at freeway park. I would love a fence at the on 8/16/2024 9:29 AM ramp to smelling at freeway park as well. There is a safety concern here. 12 Please make sure they are not apartment size but community size. The park equipment has 8/16/2024 9:22 AM been getting smaller which doesn't make sense! 13 My kids love Zip Lines as well. 8/16/2024 9:05 AM 14 The Cummings Park playground replacement in Arden Hills was awful. No one ever plays on 8/16/2024 7:03 AM the area for "big" kids because it's almost unusable and not fun. The area for small kids is only good for toddlers. My kids went from having a fun playground they could use to never using it, and I was overall use appear to go way down. Please create a park where bigger kids actually want to play, especially now that Cummings Park is unusable for kids much over toddler age. Stick to the basics like bigger slides, areas kids can run on the equipment, swings that bigger 6/7