CITY OF OAK HARBOR PARKS, RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PLAN: April 2008

HOW TO USE THIS BLOG

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Thursday, April 10, 2008

SURVEY RESULTS - FREQUENT ACTIVITIES

Hiking/jogging/walking is the most popular and frequent activity. Playground came in second followed closely by biking. Other notables are swimming and soccer. This provides information on the need to cater to these activities and improve on them. The combined interest and frequency in hiking, jogging, walking and biking establishes a need for more trails, multiuse trails, connectivity and other related infrastructure.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

SURVEY RESULTS - ACTIVITY LEVELS

Parks are used most during the summers, followed by spring and fall with activity levels dropping off during winter. As trivial as this may seem, this indicates that there is need to provide opportunities during the winter season to keep activity levels up.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The City of Oak harbor's Parks and Recreation Plan is currently being updated. The process began in 2007 with a public input process - SURVEY. The process also includes an advisory team of representatives from various entities on the island. The update includes a complete restructuring of the paln, layout, philosophy and scope. This blog in intented to share information with interested citizens on many aspects of the plan and also receive feedback. So, please feel free to post your comments and opinions!

VISION

The City of Oak Harbor is a beautiful place where the natural environment is woven into the urban environment with such care and precision that the sense of where the built form stops and nature begins is not known.

It’s a place where human nature has the opportunity to find its balance with its surroundings by merging of the urban and natural environment in seamless ways, inviting nature into the community and creating a wide range of spaces and experience where community can gather as one or the energy of one can rest in solitude and peace.

It is a town where the residents of all age groups are active and healthy, and have a wide range of choices for recreation, engaging themselves in mental and physical activity all year round.

It’s a City where the environment is clean with beautiful landscapes that line the streets and pathways, opening up to breath taking views of the water and mountains. It invites boaters and kayakers into the community compelling them to spend time at this premier waterfront community.

CITY OF OAK HARBOR PARKS, RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE PLAN