Update April 22, 2o14, from the Vancouver Park Board:
Date: April 26, 2014, 10:00am – 2:00pm
Location: 17th Avenue and Yukon Street
The City of Vancouver and the Vancouver Park Board through the Greenest City Action Plan has set the ambitious goal of providing parks and green space to ever resident of Vancouver within a 5 minute walk which is around 400 meters. At the moment 92% of residents are able to participate in this goal. Clearly the city is blessed with an abundance of parks, but that is still more work to be done to top out at 100%.
In the Capital Plan the Park Board receives funds for land acquisition. Land is purchased for the purpose of building more parks. Case in point, the Park Board has bought a corner lot at 17th Avenue and Yukon St. This empty fenced lot has the potential to be a vital park in this area and represent an exciting process for folks to envision what the park will be like in the future. I would love to see outdoor table tennis or a community pizza oven, but that is just me. The park still needs to go through a consultation process with local residents and park users of Vancouver to develop a plan for it.
The Park Board notice Board states the following:
“The Park Board will engage the community and develop a park design in 2014. Park construction is anticipated to take place in late 2014. Park construction is anticipated to take place in late 2014 and early 2015 with work completed by spring 2015.
This first open house for this new park will be held at this site Janurary 18, 2014, 10 am – 3 pm.
Should you have futher question,, please contact Project Manager: Joe McLeod 604-2578474, joe.mcleod@vancouver.ca”
Post Script: Hi Brent! I’m Jhenifer from the City of Vancouver with a quick update on the open house – it’s going to be rescheduled to February 2014 now owing to available staff time. We haven’t settled on the exact date but I’ll make sure to keep you posted! The sign will be updated too.