{"id":4026,"date":"2016-07-03T15:39:46","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T22:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2016-12-14T23:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T07:05:28","slug":"new-bpa-committee-on-palo-alto-parks-master-plan-and-bol-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/new-bpa-committee-on-palo-alto-parks-master-plan-and-bol-park\/","title":{"rendered":"New BPA committee on Palo Alto Parks Master Plan and Bol Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As many residents know, the City of Palo Alto is working on a 25-year <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltoparksplan.org\/\">Parks, Trails, Open Space and Recreation Master Plan<\/a> for Palo Alto, including Bol Park. For each park, the city is proposing a variety of upgrades in response to today\u2019s requirements and interests of our population, and the city has been reaching out to ask for community input and feedback on the proposals (e.g., community workshop on 2\/11\/16, community meeting on 5\/25\/16, online review at the above website, and more to come).<\/p>\n<p>Overall, this is an exciting long-term development for our city, even as some of the concrete proposals for Bol Park may not fit our environment (e.g., the heritage of this park). In order to ensure organized involvement, <strong>the Board of the Barron Park Association has authorized the formation of a committee<\/strong> to study this issue, prepare a response, and work with the city to ensure appropriate upgrades that reflect community-wide concerns. The board appointed long-time resident and former BPA President Dick Placone as chairperson.<\/p>\n<p>Dick will reach out with further information in the coming days and weeks. We are hoping for wide-spread input and participation, from long-time residents to newcomers, and from our youth to families to senior residents, reflecting the diverse community of our neighborhood using this park. We believe that we need to strive for a balance between remembering our past and providing for today\u2019s needs. And, while Bol Park will be the focus, we believe that it may also make sense to think beyond it, in particular to Juana Briones Park and \u201cStrawberry Hill\u201d (the triangle area on the edge of Gunn\u2019s property), where some of the proposed features could be implemented. Note that there is plenty of time, as even the short-term work is scheduled for around a 5-year time frame.<\/p>\n<p>Further options to be involved is to provide feedback to the city online and to attend some of the community meetings. You can also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paloaltoparksplan.org\/\">sign up for emails from the city<\/a> to stay involved and updated with the city\u2019s process.<\/p>\n<p>Markus Fromherz<br \/>\nBPA President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many residents know, the City of Palo Alto is working on a 25-year Parks, Trails, Open Space and Recreation Master Plan for Palo Alto, including Bol Park. For each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":4185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,9,43,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bpa-activities","category-city-of-palo-alto","category-feature","category-parks-and-creeks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bpapaloalto.org\/newbpa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}