Recreation Needs Assessment
Consultation has concluded
Help us plan the future of recreation!
The Parks and Recreation Department is conducting a Community Recreation Needs Assessment. Over the course of approximately six months, we will conduct surveys and focus group meetings to gather community feedback. The outcome of this work will guide strategic planning to equitably meet future community needs.
Survey and focus group data will inform staff of community preferences for recreation programs, events, outdoor athletic facilities, indoor recreational/community centers, gymnasiums, and aquatic space. This process is not intended to gather feedback on trail development or park land acquisition.
The assessment will tell us how the community currently uses recreational services. Questions explore equitability, barriers to participation, and willingness to pay for programs and facilities.
We invite the public to complete the survey, ask questions, and share ideas. Let your neighbors and friends know we're listening, and encourage them to participate as well.
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Night lights at some of the bigger parks during the dead of winter (December 1 through January 30th )
Perhaps having park stewards there to manage but have lights at Squalicum Park near the playground and dog park (Utilizing the existing baseball lights . and Cordata Park around the playground area so that families can get out and play from 4:30 to 7:30 pm 3 nights a week.
about 2 years ago
tennis courts
over 1 year ago
A roller skating rink would be great to have in Bellingham!!
over 2 years ago
Connect the fabulous trails together!
The resent daylighting at fairhaven/ I5 was such a opportunity lost. Connect the interurban trail to the gorge trail and gives bikers/runners/walkers a way to safely access lake padden without driving. Adding a footpath under the highway would have been a generational gift to this community. Step back and take a big picture look at what we could do to grow our amazing trails into a truly world class network of car free healthy/green community connections.
about 2 years ago
A skate park under the bridge by Way Point Park. It would be an asset to the community and that neighborhood
