Weekly Poll: Which Future Dublin Park or Recreational Facility Are You Most Excited About?
The mission of the Dublin Parks and Community Services Department is to develop and implement quality programs that strengthen community image, provide recreational experiences, encourage healthy lifestyles and preserve the City’s heritage. There are many examples of this throughout Dublin, including – the Dublin Senior Center, Emerald Glen Park, and Alamo Creek Park.
Not resting on its laurels, the City of Dublin has set a high priority to provide residents with additional park space and recreational facilities. Please click on the links below to read about a few of the future parks and facilities that we can look forward to:
- Dublin Historic Park
- Fallon Sports Park
- Emerald Glen Recreation and Aquatic Complex
- Shannon Community Center
Please check out the 2008-2009 Dublin City Newsletter for more details about these magnificent projects (included in the Dublin Winter 2008 Recreation Guide).
This week’s poll question is – Which Future Dublin Park or Recreational Facility Are You Most Excited About?
11:47 AM on November 28th, 2008
The Parks and Recreation facilities in Dublin is one thing we all can be proud of. Given the current facilities and the ones planned for the coming years we should feel very fortunate. One item missing is a Community Center at Emerald Glen so one does not have to go across town to book for an indoor event as Shannon or Senior Center. I know it is coming but not soon enough.
Also would be nice to have more passive facilities where a family and friends can have an impromtu gathering for a small celebration, where there are expanses of green grass for unorganized volleyball, soccer or just a group of friends and family playing catch or fly kites.
Currently for example at Emerald Glen we have a wonderful family picnic area which requires reservation, not too bad but it is located in an odd location away from the kids water feature on the opposite end of the park. Also the grassy area surrounding it are not open to the general public without reservation, you would also have to pay a fee to use it by the hour. If a family wanted to have a Bday party for their 5 year old child and wanted to setup some games on the lawn they can’t. The Parks people will say you can use it unless it is reserved. Well one has no way of knowing if a group will show up at 1PM claiming they reserved it thus you’d have to take down the volleyball nets and put a stop to the kids playing, not a chance you want to take.
We have plenty of first class sports parks, geared towards organized sports, even the future Fallon Park is predominantly a sports park. We just don’t have a whole lot for families.
Hopefully the Heritage Park will give us something different that we don’t have much of here in Dublin.