Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 10/12/2023

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Section 3 of Ramsey Parks and Recreation Interest Survey: Optional open-ended questions. Question responses have not been edited for spelling,grammar, or clarity. Which features, amenities, or opportunities offered by Ramsey Parks and Recreation do you find yourself utilizing or enjoying the most? *Optional question, 150 responded out of 229 respondents. 1. Parks, but need updating. We are a young more human hours of use than any play and active family.Trails, paved and ground or sport court you have in the courts,tennis, pickleball and basketball city. Yet,you allocate very little budget 2. Playgrounds to it. It has a hand me down ratty old 3. Parks bus shelter without power that gets 4. Playgrounds submerged in Ice, and two old picnic 5. Bike trails and parks tables. Speaking of Ice,the grading is so 6. None because central park is awful. And terrible that all the water moves to the we have zero neighborhood parks main entrance path leaving us to have 7. Walking Paths, Playgrounds traverse 3 inches of glare Ice just to get 8. playgrounds. I also go hiking a ton on in. unpaved trails but need to travel to 17. Nice upkept and safe parks! neighboring cities for that 18. we occasionally visit elm crest park 9. The Draw concert series if that is part of 19. Parks and ice rinks. Walking trails. Parks& Rec 20. The draw, but wish the concerts and 10. Elmcrest park for soccer, emerald lake events went into the fall.The parks are park for playground so tiny and rundown and with the 11. Bike paths amount of housing being put up non 12. Parks with playgrounds, some trail parks stop the park in our neighborhood is 13. Dog park, COR concerts not big enough to meet the demand. 14. Walking paths 21. Parks 15. Walks& biking at Rum River park. 22. I use my local trails most often. Concerts at the Cor 23. Buildings available for reservation. Music 16. Dog park. It's a mess and one of the most in the Park. Park for children to play. used facilities you have. There is no 24. We love to go listen to the music each shelter for the humans in summer or Thursday at the Core winter. You should have a large heated 25. Draw concert series- I usually make building there to accommodate the 1/year people in the winter, restrooms, and 26. Parks and trails water for the dogs year round. Maybe 27. Tennis courts and all other amenities at start fresh and build a new one at Elm Rivers Bend Park Crest. Seriously, I bet the dog park has