Thank you to everyone who completed the online design survey for Randolph Bright Mini Park! The survey closed at the end of last week and we’re pleased to have received over 45 responses.
We also gained a lot of valuable feedback from our community outreach event on May 11. Neighbors at the event used our image boards that were on display to tell us how they currently use the park and to share their design preferences for new park elements. Thanks again to the OMI community for hosting a well-attended cleanup day!
From all the responses we’ve received, we noticed a few early trends. It appears that most of the children who play in the park are under six years old. This project will add new natural, wooden play structures for children – For these structures, respondents showed a preference for structures that help facilitate climbing and nature exploration. And of the options available for the park’s new play surface, most respondents preferred an artificial turf surface.
Some neighbors told us that they do not regularly use Randolph Bright right now, for a variety of reasons, but that they’re looking forward to using the park more once these improvements are complete.
We also were interested to learn that many respondents would like the perimeter fencing to enclose the entire the park – even though this wasn’t an option that we thought to offer on the survey or image boards.
We will explore these and other topics in greater detail at our next community meeting. A date for that community meeting has not been selected yet, but we will announce the details once they are set.
Our next step is to onboard a landscape architect from Public Works to lead the design. We’re excited to see how the architect uses this feedback from the community to create exciting, new design ideas for Randolph and Bright Mini Park!
Thank you for your ongoing support and we look forward to sharing more updates with you as the project progresses.
Keri Ayers, Project Manager, keri.ayers@sfgov.org