I had a thought while driving home today past a smallish local park set aside when a subdivision down the road was completed. Currently the land is pretty bare apart from a couple of gardens and some trees. I've never seen anyone using the park.
Since we will be contributing around 30 grand to the council in parks contributions when we do our subdivision, I was wondering about the possibility of lobbying council to get some more infrastructure installed in this park, as there are no other nearby parks. Has anyone done anything like this before? I reckon it would increase the attractiveness of the surrounding properties for young families and maybe increase the property values? What do people think?
I was also thinking that, in light of the aging population and the number of people you see walking for fitness of an afternoon, maybe some of the fitness training module equipment that you see popping up now may be more appropriate.
Anyway, I'm not sure whether to just talking to someone at the council about it (town planner?) or whether a more formal proposal needs to be lodged. I also thought of seeing if the local Rotary club would be interested in getting involved also.
Since we will be contributing around 30 grand to the council in parks contributions when we do our subdivision, I was wondering about the possibility of lobbying council to get some more infrastructure installed in this park, as there are no other nearby parks. Has anyone done anything like this before? I reckon it would increase the attractiveness of the surrounding properties for young families and maybe increase the property values? What do people think?
I was also thinking that, in light of the aging population and the number of people you see walking for fitness of an afternoon, maybe some of the fitness training module equipment that you see popping up now may be more appropriate.
Anyway, I'm not sure whether to just talking to someone at the council about it (town planner?) or whether a more formal proposal needs to be lodged. I also thought of seeing if the local Rotary club would be interested in getting involved also.