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In my opinion, I think this would be an ideal opportunity for us to create a community garden into the plan. Those who work in maintaining the garden, would have the rights to the harvested goods. This will help teach the children and adults, how to become self sufficient, as well as, help out the families, who are having a hard time providing food for their family.
Green Collar Technology has a program to provide this training.
http://greencollartech.com/educational-o...s-workshop
We need to create a form, for the volunteers who do want to help build the park, to sign so we can present it at the next meeting. There are a lot of people unemployed right now and would love the chance to share their skills and time to make a difference in our community.
This appears to be the perfect opportunity, to bring the community together to make a difference and as well as meet others and learn new skills.
As Rob mentioned, 8 years have pasted and nothing has been done. Let's take this project into our own hands and get this park done with from the participation of our community who are willing to volunteer their skills and time.
Let's put our talents and resources together and make HPP community the safest and best place to live.
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I'm getting inspired just reading this thread and I don't even live in HPP. Great ideas!
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I wonder if a group of people would be willing to help me organize charrette?
(wikipedia def. The word charrette may refer to any collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem. While the structure of a charrette varies, depending on the design problem and the individuals in the group, charrettes often take place in multiple sessions in which the group divides into sub-groups. Each sub-group then presents its work to the full group as material for future dialogue. Such charrettes serve as a way of quickly generating a design solution while integrating the aptitudes and interests of a diverse group of people.)
I think a meeting where people would have the option breaking into teams and brainstorming ideas and inventorying available volunteer resources could be really valuable. I have some facilitative experience (but then I couldn't participate!) or I could find some people from outside HPP with no axe to grind who would help us out, but a set of chances for many members of the HPP community to share their vision for the HPP plan identified parks would be really useful in figuring out what activities should go where. Between all the people in HPP we have diverse skills and resources, I think we could make something really wonderful happen. HPP has a lot of land set aside for parks, we should look at this strategically as a whole community system that supports a wide variety of recreational needs.
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There is a saying that ” a camel is a horse designed by committee” . The owners association had a park committee that came up with a plan so grandiose that we would not be able to afford to build it, then they decided to try to get the county to do it. Which is going to lead to years of going around with nothing being done.
How about we just make it a big grassy field, then community groups can add features a little at a time like a play ground.
There is land on the shoreline that was deeded to the county in like the 70’s for a park and there is nothing but piles of broken beer bottles there in 2010
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Originally posted by csgray
I wonder if a group of people would be willing to help me organize charrette?
Carol
Yes, Carol, put me on the list.
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This is all a wonderful thing. 20 acres leaves lots of space for many wonderful possibilities. The main concern to me is the people that don't have the least bit of respect to anything and indulge themselves it mindless acts of vandalism. I can just see the future park with it's grassy fields and nice walking paths all torn up by quads and 4x4s, graffiti, and broken structures. My second concern is how do you keep the park for HPP residents only? Would this be something that the Neighborhood Watch could oversee?
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If it's a county park. it's public open to everyone.
Leilani HOA has a very nice litte park and play ground. does anyone know how they did it
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Sorry, Royal. Neighborhood Watch is not a security force or law enforcement agency. It's all we can do to get people to look out for their own neighborhoods, so I think security at a HPP-owned park would have to be accomplished otherwise. Our current activity center has not suffered significantly from abuse, but it does have restricted access via being gated.
My own suggestion is "keep it simple!" The more elaborate and complicated the park facilities become, the higher the maintenance cost and the more attractive for vandals it would be. Walking trails, basic playground outfitting, garden areas, and parking would be all we need to start. My own inclination is to retain as much of the ohia forest as is practical, along with the requisite cultural sites, if any.
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Since I don't live in HPP I will stay out of the what and hows and just cheer from the sidelines.
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