The open fields that, someday, will be developed as Lower Pottsgrove's Pleasantview Park.
SANATOGA PA – Community residents who – during three sessions so far – have seen progress in proposals for development of Lower Pottsgrove‘s Pleasantview Park and the renovation of Gerald Richards Park, seem pleased with the results, township Assistant Manager Allison Elliott declared Monday (Feb. 7, 2011).
So much so, in fact, that the group won’t gather again until March, she told the Board of Commissioners during its meeting this week.
Depending on the day and its weather, Elliott noted, the group of between 10 and 25 volunteers has been talking monthly since November about what the parks need, should be used for, and how they best fit into Lower Pottsgrove’s overall recreation program. The discussions have been guided by Norristown PA-based landscape architects Simone Collins, with money available primarily from a state grant.
Simone Collins initially produced three different concept plans for each: Pleasantview, a future park destined to occupy now vacant land at the northwest corner of Bleim and North Pleasant View Roads; and Richards, the township’s busiest active park, at the corner of North Pleasant View and Buchert roads.
Those choices have been whittled down to one each. “Everybody’s pretty happy, and there hasn’t been a whole lot of dissension,” Elliott said.
The group’s next meeting is scheduled for March 23 (2011; Wednesday) at 6:30 p.m. in the Colonial Room at Sunnybrook Ballroom, 50 Sunnybrook Rd., Pottstown PA. The meeting planned for this moth, Elliott added has been canceled.
Related (to Pleasantview Park development):
- Parks Work Successful So Far; Feb. Meeting Canceled
- At Richards Park, Planning Foresees New Uses, Re-uses
- Crucial Meeting Ahead For Township’s Pleasantview Park
- Fledgling Park Gets A Name
Related (to the Lower Pottsgrove Board of Commissioners’ Feb. 7 meeting):
- Parks Work Successful So Far; Feb. Meeting Canceled
- Drug Sales A Problem Near High School, Township Told
- Over Objections, Commissioners Endorse Buchert Apartments
- Two Expansions Considered On Lower Pottsgrove Agenda
“Those choices have been whittled down to one each. “Everybody’s pretty happy, and there hasn’t been a whole lot of dissension,” Elliott said”
What are these two choices? Sounds like a selection was made during these meetings. How did that come about and who empowered them to make that selection. Would seem that the residents would have some say or maybe even a vote on this use?
Guess we’ll have more ball fields and soccer fields and little else. Open grass fields, few if any trees, no ponds or bodies of water, another bunch of open grass to have mowed weekly.