2016-2017 - Great Park Public Outreach Surveys

The learning is in the doing

 This is the most used space in the entire Great Park.  Where did the 59 acres for the botanical garden go?  Parks are synonymous with gardens  Gardens nurture the souls  Nature walks can combine with the gardens  We need a world‐class botanical garden  Gardens will bring together people of all ages  OC has its roots in agriculture  Every Great Park needs a great garden  Original plan had 59 acres for gardens—what happened to that plan?  World‐class garden—people would come to see it  Walkways could connect all sections of the park (like Central Park)  We need gardens to decompress  Plans look very sterile—need to soften them with greener landscape  It’s a Great Park that should look like a great park.  Every great park has a great garden  Would like to see long meandering walkways throughout  This park can be an escape from Irvine  Would like space for families to walk and talk  We’re missing a green space for this generation  They don’t know what they don’t have until they get it  We live stressful lives—where do we go to relax?  We need a place to relax our souls  It can not only be the Great Park, it can also be the Healthy Park  The park gives a push towards sports, not culture  We need a passive park for all ages  Want a sense of history (trees/museums)  We need more passiveness  Children quickly forget the importance of agriculture  Humans are imminently attached to nature  Where did the botanical garden go?  Garden allows something for everybody  City needs to be more cognizant of the garden users  Don’t see enough gardens and arboretums  Great attraction to have gardens to draw others in aside from sports  Want to see trees, shrubs, floral, nature walk  Will there be a sustainable garden in current plans?  59 acres that were in original plans for botanical garden, is that still there?  Want destination garden/arboretum. Not everyone comes for sports  Cars coming in from all over, contributing to pollution. Want more gardens to contract it  Wants more than just grass  Many people and resources who would help with garden spaces  Gardens are huge—could have fun teaching component.  Could wrap community garden around the Farm + Food Lab  Community garden will be occupied by Irvine residents.

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