By David Aynes
I’m very excited that Candler Park has been accepted into Park Pride’s Visioning Program. Over the next eight months, Park Pride’s staff of landscape architects will assist our community in developing a Conceptual Master Plan for Candler Park. The Master Plan will help our community prioritize improvements and raise funds to make the plan a reality.
The Steering Committee kick-off meeting took place April 12th. Walt Ray, the program’s founder, gave us an introduction and overview. Park Pride’s mission is: “more and better parks…all over Atlanta”. They’ve accomplished this by facilitating and financially managing 80 “Friends of Parks” groups throughout the city. The Visioning Program was launched 8 years ago and the 20+ Conceptual Master Plans created since have helped Friends of Parks groups raise over $9 million for park improvements.
As a member of the Steering Committee, I’m learning about visioning in other parks around the city. The first step: figuring out where all the parks are. Below is the handy map that my web Jedi and I have created…complete with links to PDF’s of each park’s Visioning Project Overview. Each committee member’s responsibility is to represent constituents in their community. If you’ve got an idea or opinion about Candler Park, please let me know, contact another member of the Steering Committee or come to one of the public meetings (dates TBD) and share your ideas in person!
View Park Pride – Park Visioning Map in a full screen map