Little Nature Playgrounds
Clean Air Council is thrilled to announce we have been awarded the William Penn Foundations’ Investment in Public Parks Grant. This funding will allow the Council and community partners to expand the existing play and learning spaces at safe crossing entrances to Cobbs Creek Park. This project will transform park entrances to include mural art on the paved trail and areas for children and families to learn and play together.
The Council has once again teamed up with Amber Art and Design and Tiny WPA to develop, design, and build art and play spaces in the vision of community members. Throughout the next several months we will be gaining inspiration and ideas from residents in order to guide the new play space designs. There are multiple opportunities for residents to inform the design and locations of the new little nature playgrounds including at in-person community design workshops, see details below.
1) February 10th 4-6:30pm at Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Center (700 Cobbs Creek Parkway).
2) April 7th 4-6pm at Paschalville Library (6942 Woodland Ave)
3) March 10th 5-7pm at Cobbs Creek Library (5800 Cobbs Creek Pkwy)
4) April 25th join us at Celebrate Trails Day 10AM-2PM for a final community feedback opportunity! (Thomas Ave and Cobbs Creek Parkway)
The project team has created a short survey as a starting place to learn more about what neighbors would like to see included in the design. We invite area neighbors and Cobbs Creek Park users to complete the survey and attend any and all of the workshops which will include an evening of creativity, story sharing, and imagination as we collectively envision and design mural art on trails and play areas for children and families.
