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MIA LEHRER + ASSOCIATES

Recreation and Parks Commission

November 21, 2013

Santa Monica, CA

BUFFER PARK

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City Context

10 minute walk

Stewart Street Park

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Stoner ParkPark Ameni t ies

Park Drive Park - 0.34 acres• Thirty-EightCommunityGardenPlots• GrassArea

Stewart Street Park - 3.8 acres• Children’s Playground AreaWith Children’sSwings

• YouthBaseball/SoccerField• BasketballCourt• RestroomBuilding• Old Concession Building (Used For LeagueStorage)

• Thirty-TwoOff-StreetParkingSpaces

Clover Park - 17.9 acres• Ninty-FiveOff-StreetParkingSpaces• PicnicTables• SixteenBbqs• TwoPlaygrounds• TwoRestroomBuildings• TwoMulti-purposeFieldsWithLights• TwoTennisCourtsWithLights• OneBasketballCourt(2hoops)WithLights• OneSandVolleyballCourt• Fifteen-StationParcourse• WalkingPath

Yahoo Center Park - 3.5 acres• TwoTennisCourts• Half-CourtBasketballCourt• Children’sPlayground• VolleyballCourt• Five-StationFitnessCourse

Virginia Avenue Park - 9.5 acres• ParkCenter• TeenCenter• ThelmaTerryBuilding• ThePatioBuilding• BranchLibrary(UnderConstruction)• TwoRegulationBasketballCourtsW/Lights• LargeLawnArea• TwoPlaygrounds• SplashPad(Seasonal)• PicnicTables&SevenBbqs• SaturdayFarmersMarket• On-SiteParkinginTwoParkingLots

Scale Study Size Virginia Avenue Park- 9.5 acres

Stewart Street Park- 3.8 acres

buffer park – 2.35 acres Scale

buffer park

Scale StudyStudyShape Palisades Park, Santa Monica CA

Barnard Way Linear Park, Santa Monica CABarnard Way Linear Park, Santa Monica CA

Scale studyexploringcomparableacreagesof localparksinSantaMonica.

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Scale study

Workshop #1 December 18, 2012

What Kind of Park for The Neighborhood?

Program options, surveys and discussions

Workshop #1 December 18, 2012

WHO Will yOu gO TO THE park WiTH?

Friends and Family

Family

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13% 6%

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WALK BIKE OTHER DRIVE

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HOW WOuld yOu gET THErE?

59%

YES NO MAYBE

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Will yOu cOmE WiTH yOu pETS?

programs

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21.5%

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COMMUNITY

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What Kind of Park for The Neighborhood?

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Workshop #2 March 6, 2013

understanding Scale - Placing Programs

Conceptual Site Plans

Workshop #2 March 6, 2013

understanding Scale - Placing Programs

What we heard.. . • Exercise equipment incorporated into a “looping” trail system• Play next to Gather for people to a place to watch and relax while kid’s play • Preference for an unconventional sidewalk - No concrete sidewalk • Learning Garden instead of a Community Garden • Suggest gathering space at end of Yorkshire (on axis) • Some buffer trees along Stewart • Discovery Play next to Gather • Screening the maintenance yard as much as possible

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BUFFER PARK | C IT Y OF SANTA MONICA

BUFFER PARK | C IT Y OF SANTA MONICA

BUFFER PARK WORKSHOP #3 - MAY 11,2013

BUFFER PARK WORKSHOP #3 - MAY 11,2013



TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

WHICH 3 PARK ROOMS WILL YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME IN:

THE GROVE THE WATERSHED GARDEN THE BIRD GARDEN THE MEADOW

WHICH 3 PARK ROOMS WILL YOU SPEND THE MOST TIME IN:

THE GROVE THE WATERSHED GARDEN THE BIRD GARDEN THE MEADOW

WHAT KIND OF DEMONSTRATION GARDEN WOULD YOU PREFER:

AN ETHNOBOTANY GARDEN CALIFORNIA PLANTING COMMUNITIES

WHAT KIND OF DEMONSTRATION GARDEN WOULD YOU PREFER:

AN ETHNOBOTANY GARDEN CALIFORNIA PLANTING COMMUNITIES

ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS?

ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS?

THE COMMUNITY PAVILLIONS THE ROCK GARDEN THE LEARNING GARDEN THE FOREST

THE COMMUNITY PAVILLIONS THE ROCK GARDEN THE LEARNING GARDEN THE FOREST

Workshop #3 May 11, 2013

Collect Comments on Proposed Plan

14.5% (19)

13.7% (18)

13.7% (18)

13.7% (18)

12.9% (17)

12.9% (17)

9.1% (12)

9.1% (12)

THE mEadOW

THE WaTErSHEd gardEN

THE bird gardEN

THE FOrEST

THE rOck gardEN

THE lEarNiNg gardEN

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THE cOmmuNiTy paviliONS

ADDITIONAL COMMENTS

YOUR FAVORITE ROOM

NO DOG PARK (7)

EVERYTHING LOOKS GOOD / I LIKE EVERYTHING (5)

NO FICUS TREES (4)

Workshop #3 May 11, 2013

Collect Comments on Proposed PlanreSulTS

WHAT KIND OF DEMONSTRATION GARDEN WOULD YOU PREFER?

AN ETHNOBOTANY GARDEN

CALIFORNIA PLANT COMMUNITIES

52% (13) 56% (14)

YES TO DOG PARK (3)

NO VEGETABLES - FLOWERS ONLY (2)

SOLAR LIGHTING / SOLAR PANELS (2)

SOLID ROOF ON PAVILIONS FOR RAINY DAYS (2)

QUIET PLACE TO MEDITATE AND SIT (2)

TRACK (2)

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The Grove

The Bird Garden

The Meadow The CommunityPavi l ions

The WatershedGarden

The Rock Garden

The Learning Garden

The Forest

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THE GROVE

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The grove is about shade, transition and buffer. when one arrives at The grove they are in the transition zone of the park, decompressing from Stewart Street, with its high traffic, into the quiet park. The visitor enters the park through earthen mounds up to 3 feet in height. large ficus trees, celebrated by the City for their health and environmental benefits, are located here where there is room to accommodate their growth habit. A wide, stabilized decomposed granite path guides circulation through the space and invites people in the park, into the next room, the watershed garden.The grove is designed to be a passive space, a place where people pass through or lay on the landforms to take a break in the shade.

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THE WATERSHEDGARDEN

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The watershed garden is a seasonal performative garden. The space is sunken and is designed to collect and filter the site stormwater before it gets released into the storm drain system. planted with riparian grasses and shrubs, the garden will fill in during the rainy season. In the summer the dry garden will become a serene garden for people to enjoy and explore. large boulders will offer informal seating opportunities and Sycamore trees will shade visitors.in the center of the garden is a raised path, built like a jetty, that allows for circulation through the garden.

The Watershed Garden

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THE BIRD GARDEN


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The Bird garden is a garden of wonder where visitors are invited to observe and listen to the many and diverse birds species of the region. A mixed forest is proposed here, keeping and building upon the beautiful existing pine trees at this location as well as adding trees that support bird habitat. mounded planting islands will support butterflies and birds of all kinds with food and nesting opportunities. A series of bird towers, simple trellis structures planted with vines, will provide a third opportunity for bird habitat in this garden. joggers and visitors can also exercise here on the seven exercise stations provide along the path. Two of these stations will be ADA accessible, ensuring the goal of creating a garden for all.

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THE MEADOW



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The sloped meadow offers a great place for all to relax and play. Open and flexible, the meadow is planted on the northern and southern edges with flowering trees that provide shade and seasonal interest. The gentle slope of the meadow creates a safe, sunken place for children to play. parents can sit on the grass or on the low retaining wall along Exposition Boulevard and visit while they watch their children. At the end of the slope, a set of broad, long steps also provides an informal opportunity for seating as well as opportunity for an informal “stage” setting or movie screening set-up. On the northern edge of the meadow, the path/jogging path is separated from the meadow play area with a linear bed of trees, planted shrub areas, and vines on the wall.

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THE COMMUNITY PAVILIONS


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Centered on axis with yorkshire Avenue, the community plaza and two pavilions offer a flexible place to meet, gather, and celebrate together. The Community pavilions room is the formal main entry to the park and is intended to be the community “living room”. The paved plaza celebrates the history and diversity of the community through its walls and paving. Two pavilions on each end of the plaza shade picnic and gathering areas. The jogging path is connected behind the pavilions and tall plantings such as bamboo visually screen the maintenance facility building. This is a very flexible space. Here one can hold informal workshops and classes in the picnic areas, set up lemonade stands, or celebrate family and friend’s birthdays.

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THE ROCK GARDEN



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Connected to the picnic pavilion, the rock garden is a place where the youngest can explore and play. rubberized surfaces, and a sand box promotes safe, universally accessible play. There is active play on ADA-accessible equipment or more naturalized, imaginative, passive play with boulders and logs.The overall play area will be themed toward a natural California feel where materials and elements highlight the great California landscape of our mountains. play elements may include sensory experiences, swings, and balance play. The play area can be fenced off, if necessary. parents can supervise play from the picnic area or from the various logs and boulders designed for play or informal seating.

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THE LEARNING GARDEN







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The learning garden is the room for learning and gardening for all age groups. The concept is based on exploration of a new type of garden for the community, where the plots are common to all residents and everyone is invited to participate. The learning garden has three zones: The Orchard, the garden lab and the Demonstration garden. The Orchard will be managed by the person in charge of the garden lab. picking days will be organized for the community and the extra fruit will be harvested by an organization such as “food forward” or “fallen fruit” and donated to non-profits or food banks.The garden lab will be a rotating, ever-changing garden exploring gardening techniques and plant types. A biannual or quarterly gardener could be in charge of programming and maintaining the garden, working with the City and the community, and assisting with seasonal plant material selections. This master farmer could be a community member leader, a master gardener, a farmer, an artist, or a non-profit organizer. As part of this concept the master farmer would provide a limited number of gardening or raw cooking classes that help the community implement the concepts of the learning garden into their own backyards.

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At the eastern end of this linear site one enters the park through a forest environment. ficus trees with shade appropriate understory planting will help to define this garden room. A Native Demonstration garden planted under a grove of native oaks will display climate-appropriate plants from our region. The forest is intended to be very natural and soft: leave the busy city behind when you enter this wooded, peaceful area.

The Forest

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• DesignDevelopmentPhasebegins

• PresentationofthedesigntoCityCouncil(Early2014)

• DesignDevelopmentCompleteMarch2014(16weeks)

• ExpoMaintenanceFacilityduetocompleteconstruction February2015

• BufferParktocommenceconstructionearly2015

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