This is one of the proposed playground options.
The Palisades Park Advisory Board (PAB) will hold its quarterly meeting in person at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 18, in the small gym at 851 Alma Real. The public is welcome.
Among the items to be considered: approval of one of the proposed designs for the revamp of the Recreation Center Playground.
The agenda also includes:
* Park director update from Jasmine Dowlatshahi
* Safety concerns at the park and vandalism
*Update on restroom and playground bathrooms (View playground options click here.)
* Beatification of bowl area between playground and library
* No handicap access to baseball fields
* Public comment
To view the agenda: click here.
About the Community Garden/Beautification plan, David Card will present it. “This will be its first public showing,” Card said and added “It’s only a concept, subject to change based on community input, funding and other factors. The primary concepts are: a raised bed community garden next to the kids playground, native plants and trees, ground water replenishment, and a log seating area (for reading, etc.) next to the Library.”
Plantings would start outside of the playground, extend into the bowl below the Rec Center parking lot and on the land by the Palisades Library. That entire area is part of Rec and Parks.
“Council District 11 field deputy Michael Amster suggested a Palisades Community Garden. Valeria Serna met a landscape architect who offered this concept drawing,” Card said. “We discussed it at our last Palisades Forestry Committee meeting, and we thought it worthy of presentation.”
In addition to sitting on the PAB Board, Card is also the president of the Palisades Forestry committee and a former Pacific Palisades Community President.
Other PAB members include: Andy Starrels, Rick McGeagh, Maryam Zar, Janet Anderson, Rob Weber, Bob Benton, Mike Skinner, Mike Thomas, C.J. Laffer and Brooke Sutton.
This rendering will be shown at the Park Advisory Meeting on July 18. New plantings would extend from the playground (left) to the library (right).