Please join us as we meet in University Park to participate in the Adventure Playground Public Workshop tomorrow November 30 @ 6:30 pm. We are in the process of formailizing the way the park will run and encourage you to show your support for an AP that enables hands on construction and organic adventurous play.
Thank you
Defenders of Adventure Playground
Dear AP die-hards,
Do you have photos of the good times you spent letting loose at Adventure Playground stashed away somewhere in your closet or hard-drive? If so, we invite you to bring em out! We are compiling an AP photo album and would love to include the muddiest splinteriest grittiest grimiest of the shots in our collection, not to mention anything else that shows a smiling face, hard-worker, or creative individual.
We can use old film negatives, slides, scan printed photos, jpegs, you name it. Just let us know and we will supply you with a mailing address or just email ‘em.
p.s We are expecting a September AP public workshop so stay tuned!
TODAY! is the 2nd official Adventure Playground Community Meeting at University Community Park. We are off to a positive start after our March meeting and we hope to see more AP supporters attend today’s meeting at 6:30 pm.
To recap the meeting from last month:
The city along with the design firm EPT hosted a workshop where community members were able to brainstorm ideas for Adventure Playground and present them to the group. These ideas have gone into review and will be addressed at today’s meeting. It was a basic and introductory meeting and we expect to begin getting down to specifics today and in later meetings as we narrow down AP’s design.
Please come out and show your support today at 6:30 p.m in our next AP community workshop!
Sincerely,
Alex Hillenbrand
Defenders of Adventure Playground
Dear Defenders,
The city of Irvine is hosting the first official planning meeting regarding AP’s reconstruction THIS Thursday March 24. The meeting is at 6:30 pm in the University Community Park multi-purpose room. Please come out and give your input on what you want AP to become.
Now is the time get creative and put our ideas in motion!
Dear Defenders of AP,
Hello! We are are getting back into the swing of things and have decided to hold a Lampost Pizza meeting Saturday, March 5th, at 5pm to discuss upcoming issues and plans for rebuilding Adventure Playground. If you haven’t already heard, Irvine City Council has awarded the Adventure Playground budget $400,000 for design and development of the park. This means we get to start dreaming up what AP can and will be. The city will hold an official community meeting regarding AP Thursday March 24 @ 6:30pm in the University Park multi-purpose room.
It’s important to bring the Defenders of Adventure Playground together in order to organize our vision and prepare a game plan for the big meeting on the 24th.
We hope to see you there. Please remember to RSVP.
Sincerely,
Mylinh Nguyen, Alex Hillenbrand, and Jonathan Gerard
Defenders of Adventure Playground
714.697.2557
p.s. Address to Lampost Pizza: 4230 Barranca Parkway, Irvine. Pizza is on us!
There is a great article about Adventure Playground written by Joanna Clay in the recent edition of The Daily Pilot. Have a look:
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-0102-playground-20110101,0,6682307.story
Also, the City of Irvine plans to hold its first Community Planning Meeting in early-February. Keep posted for an exact date.
Yes the headline is true. Go ahead, pinch yourself.
Dear Defenders of Adventure Playground,
As of today November 23, 2010 the City of Irvine by the unanimous vote of the city council has officially appropriated $400,000 for the re-construction of Adventure Playground.
The decision was made today at the November City Council Meeting after officials within the Community Services Department, City Finance Commission, and other unknown actors modified the current budget to accommodate the AP movement. This modification was added to the city council agenda and subsequently passed by the council. Since the appropriation is the result of modifications to the current budget, the funds are available and effective immediately.
Where do we start? The plan is to begin community meetings concerning AP and its rehabilitation. These meetings will bring city staff and the community together in order to formulate a path forward. The new budget appropriation affords the resources necessary to mobilize the skills of topographical engineers, park planners, and others of relevant background. Given the approaching holiday season, we anticipate that the first of these meetings will occur mid-late January 2011. This should give city staff and partners sufficient time to develop a community presentation regarding the more advanced challenges facing the playground, such as drainage, topography, and construction of park models.
In the mean time it is important that the defenders of AP form our own community meetings prior to January 2010 in order to develop our interpretations and guidelines for handling affairs. Stay posted for upcoming schedules.
Furthermore, we would like to commend Community Services Director Brian Fisk, park planner Steven Hobart, the City Planners office, the Irvine Community Services Commission, and members of Irvine City Council along with Mayor Kang for their cooperation and sympathy to our cause. It is uplifting to exercise our democratic rights to free speech, assembly, and representational government and then see first hand the direct results of these actions. Your commitment to preserve the legacy of Adventure Playground is appreciated.
Lastly, we want to thank everyone from the community and surrounding areas who have lent their support to the Defend AP movement. Thank you to all the courageous folks who showed up to our rally and picketed the streets; to all the folks who came to the meetings at city hall and showed their support in presence and in speech; to all the bloggers and reporters who have devoted their time to reporting the AP story; and to all the folks online who have expressed their concern for AP. We couldn’t have made it this far without such community support, and with it we will continue to progress and thrive.
It’s time to put down the picket signs and put on the thinking caps. We have a playground to build.
Long live the AP legacy!
Defenders of Adventure Playground
