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Provide feedback on the Mellor-Rhodes concept plan. Are there things you like about it or would want to be different? Please leave comments below. All comments will be considered by the Parks Department and the Parks, Trails, and Trees Committee.
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Great looking concept with a good mix of use types! Strongly recommend a trail connection from the Dry Creek Trail then up the road where the maintenance buildings are proposed to provide interconnectivity to the east. The continuation and another fork of a trail connection to Dry Creek Elementary would also be recommended to aid children to safely get to school from the neighborhoods to the west. A looping trail would be fantastic around the baseball fields as well since this will have a lot of foot and some bike traffic. An enhanced trail crossing at 1700 West is strongly encouraged to provide safe crossing for the continuation of the Dry Creek Trail. Pedestrian refuge islands are a great option to break up one longer crossing into two short crossings and only require people walking or biking to concentrate on one direction of vehicular travel at a time. Then you don't have to find a gap in both directions of traffic on 1700 W to cross and it is hard for someone to think about two things at the same time which can lead to someone not seeing a car coming when they cross.
I love the park concept. I play pickleball regularly, so I am looking at it through the lens of someone always looking at crowded courts in a growing sport. I like the dedicated Pickleball courts that are not duel purpose tennis courts- this seems to maximize your space. When you put pickleball courts on tennis courts you cannot cram as many courts in the space. With 20 courts, and four people playing per court, you have a capacity of 80 individuals playing at a time. By contrast, if you have one group of four per hole on a golf course, you can only fit 72 people. These pickleball courts are a great example of efficient use of space to allow many people to play in a small area.
Thank you for your work on this.
I love this plan! I’m all for it!
I really like the look of the park. This is sorely needed in Lehi. Don't change a thing! More of a question than comment, hopefully some of these fields are larger (I can't tell from the renderings) as there is no fields for adult softball or older youth baseball currently in Lehi.
This park looks amazing! I am a little confused at how many baseball fields and how few soccer fields there are. It seems like soccer/field sports are becoming more popular than baseball, and soccer fields can easily be reconfigured for other uses (volleyball, frisbee etc.) I love how many pickleball courts there are as well, but agree with KellReilly it might be nice to have a couple tennis courts mixed in. I live closer to the Holbrook Farms area, and would love to see lots of open grassy areas and pickleball courts in that park as well.
I know in previous renderings and ideas for this park there was a possibility of a splash pad type facility. I would love to see that included as well since we are on the south end and do not have one. Also is there a way in the pickleball area to have normal tennis courts as well as pickleball? I'm excited and look forward to this park!
I can see how much planning has gone into this park, and am excited to see it completed. I wanted to provide some feedback of how I see the concept could be improved upon. I'm a mother of two little kids, and we frequently visit Patriots Park in Saratoga Springs. I immediately recognized this park has a similar designs. One of my least favorite things about Patriots Park is how far the playground is from parking. Carrying all of the park essentials (and usually one of my children) into the park and then again back out (this time carrying a child who is upset it is time to leave) is quite the task.
The playground for this park seems to be the same concept, far away from parking. I can tell the intent of the playground is to have a play structure near the fields for siblings and other young spectators to play on during baseball games. The park however, will be used outside of baseball season, and is quite a ways from any parking. I'd like to suggest it be taken under consideration to move the playground to where the flag pole is planned, so it can be closer to parking. The flagpole of course is an important element to have at the entrance to the fields. I wonder if it could be moved up along the walkway to still keep it a focal point of the main park entrance?
Thank you.