CHAPTER ONE • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NAPERVILLE PARK DISTRICT INDOOR RECREATION SPACE NEEDS ASSESSMENT
• NPD has several supporting indoor recreation spaces that contribute to overall programming through partnerships and lease agreements. While these facilities allow for NPD to better serve the community’s indoor recreation needs, they come with challenges that limit the potential for additional programming to maximize the space that is available. COMMUNITY INPUT PROCESS
Athletics
The community input process was integral in gathering both demographic and psychographic information essential to the project. Feedback was obtained through interviews with community leaders, multiple focus group sessions comprised of community members, open houses, and community surveys – including a statistically-valid version that was made available by invitation only to random Naperville households and an open version that anyone could complete. Surveys posed a wide range of questions regarding facility familiarity, usage, satisfaction, recreation program needs, and preference and willingness to pay questions regarding the addition of a potential future recreation facility. Data from the statistical and open surveys were reviewed separately.
GYMNASTICS
WALKING / JOGGING TRACK
PICKLEBALL
VOLLEYBALL
BASKETBALL
INDOOR RECREATION ASSESSMENT OPEN HOUSE · PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
KEY SURVEY FINDINGS • Fort Hill Activity Center was cited as the most frequently visited facility at the Naperville Park District. • The most highly rated facilities were Fort Hill Activity Center and Knoch Knolls Nature Center. • Statistical and open survey data (42% and 64% respectively) showed disagreement that there are enough indoor recreation facilities at the Naperville Park District. • Satisfaction with the number of recreation opportunities offered is high with 62% (statistical survey) and 56% (open survey) indicating that they are satisfied. Between 72-81% of respondents across all three feedback groups (statistical and open surveys and open house participants) indicated a strong interest in a pool for swim lessons, open swim, etc. • Willingness to pay for a new indoor recreation facility: º A new activity center with a pool was rated the highest in interest in the public sample with 72% of respondents that indicated they are willing to pay $85/year more in property taxes for this type of facility; 48% of respondents in the statistical survey indicated that they also would support this type of facility. º Support for an activity center with synthetic turf for a $75/year increase in property taxes was lower than that of an activity center with a pool. The fewest respondents (22% open sample & 26% random sample) would pay $75/year for an activity center with synthetic turf. º Support was significantly lower for a $60/year increase in property taxes for a multi-purpose activity center without a pool (22% open survey and 32% random survey).
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