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Langton Lake Park <br />Implementation Planning Session One <br />6 June 2013 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br /> Natural animal habitat <br /> Directions to ball fields (people get to east side) <br /> More parking <br /> West side garbage from industrial-continual <br /> Impact WalMart will have <br /> Remove all barbed wire and fences <br /> Monitoring garbage drop off by fishing dock, by south side (buildings are gone <br />now); hangout for kinds in abandoned warehouses <br /> Maintain buckthorn issue <br /> Reestablish habitat, natural replanting for wildlife habitat (deer, coyote, fox, <br />muskrat, possum, bald eagle) <br /> Portapotty by playground <br /> Playground (sand same problem with) slippery staff, with pebbles on cement <br /> Signage for locations within park so people can find soccer and ball fields <br /> Presbyterian Home “smoking area” by their picnic table, too much garbage <br /> Eastside ball park—ice problem on path, washout areas <br /> Dogs off leash/not picked up after, signage regarding <br /> Inform park users on site because people use it on lunch hours, they drive <br />there, park, and walk more than neighbors use <br />No group identified <br /> Safety issues, WalMart/retail <br /> Light at Lydia viaduct on west side <br /> Police car making their own roads, tracking mud on trail <br /> For safety can the south end have a locked fence at night <br /> Would be nice to have a shelter area <br /> New playground equipment <br /> Trail only at C2 so cars will not use <br /> C2 bridge boards rotting <br /> <br />Exercise Two Perfect day <br /> <br />As a group focused on a park, participants we re asked to share their thoughts about what <br />would make for a perfect day at the playground and park: <br /> <br />Group A <br /> Need a man-made water fountain, as in Chicago Millennium Park or NYC <br /> Needs a large stone in the circle in the west side of Langton Lake and C2 <br /> Fix path so they are in better shape and keep it cleaner <br /> Walk path and not see the industrial area <br /> Being able to kayak and not run into lily pads <br /> Signs saying not to feed the geese <br /> To walk and hear and see signs of nature <br /> To be able to swim in lake <br /> Adequate parking—not in the cul-de-sac or the lawn <br /> Would like picnic area <br /> Would like drinking water area