Spring Street Park Upgrade

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Details: Category: Latest News; Created on Wednesday, 02 April 2014 00:42; Last Updated on Wednesday, 02 April 2014 00:42; Published on Wednesday, 02 April 2014 00:42; Written by Super User; Hits: 1745

Spring Street Park is a very new and much-needed amenity to the neighborhood. It was officially opened to the public on June 17, 2013 by Antonio Villaraigosa. It is one of the parks created as part of the 50 Parks Initiative program developed under his leadership as the Mayor of Los Angeles. The 50 Parks Initiative was developed to address the perception that Los Angeles is "park poor." Downtown is park poor.

In just the first few months of the park's opening, many of us witnessed the heavy use and rapid deterioration of such a much-needed amenity in Downtown that took many people and many years to create. Therefore, the Department of Recreation and Parks and the Bureau of Engineering examined how the park was being used and decided to make some design changes to preserve the various elements that make Spring Street Park unique and to ensure that the park is an enjoyable destination for those who live, work and visit the Downtown Historic Core. Friends of Spring Street Park was invited to a meeting in January 2014 to listen to the proposed design changes and provide feedback.

Design and operational changes being proposed, or already implemented, are:

A fence around the playground area to protect the children from potentially aggressive dogs and bicyclists.
An enclosed dog area within the park for dogs and their owners to play to protect them from potentially agressive children and bicyclists.
Reseeding the grassy oval lawn with a hearty, quick recovering grass variety. In addition, creating two other grassy areas within the park where plantings currently exist.
Placing mulch and decomposed granite along the outer perimeter along Spring Street as a designated poo and pee area before entering the park.
Putting in place low, decorative fences to protect and preserve the planting areas within the park.

Friends of Spring Street Park continue to seek funding so that park rangers can enforce the existing rules of the park to protect and preserve the unique features of the park for everyone's enjoyment. With your tax-deductible contribution, you can join our collective effort to preserve Spring Street Park! And if you cannot contribute, please do your part to preserve and maintain the limited green space currently available to us in Downtown. Thank you!