2023 Parks and Recreation Aquatics Master Plan

Aquatic Facilities Master Plan COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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INTRODUCTION As an initial phase to the City of Greensboro Aquatics Master Plan, extensive community engagement was desired to ensure feedback from the communities surrounding the existing facilities as well as the City at large. The community engagement was divided into two components; Big Ideas : completed at the start of the master plan process, and a Shared Vision : to gather feedback and comments on the proposed master plans for each of the aquatics sites.

BIG IDEAS The Big Ideas component sought to help the

community craft a shared vision for the project. These events were also an opportunity to building support and awareness for the project. Eight (8) in-person pop-up events were held for each of the following locations:

SUMMARY

BIG IDEAS Dates: February - March, 2022

Locations: Listed, right Format: Pop-Up + Online Total Participants: 1,146

# of Attendees

Location

Smith Active Adult Center Indoor Pool

24 55 57

Barber Park Sprayground Keeley Park Sprayground Greensboro Science Center

SHARED VISION Dates: August, 2022

140

Caldcleugh Multicultural Arts Center

29 58

Reynolds Center GCS Art Exhibit

Locations: Renaissance Community Rebound, Warnersville Back-to-School Event, LeBauer Park First Friday, McGirt Horton Library, Lindley Recreation Center, Warnersville Recreation Center Format: Pop-Up, Stationary, Online Total Participants: 906

188 170

Chalkwalk

Altogether the pop-ups had a total of 721 participants and gave feedback on: favorite aquatic facility type (pool with 62%, sprayground ) , favorite aquatic activity (water ninja cross with 24% and lazy river with 18%) and collected comments and sketches of the community’s big ideas.

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