Rochester Parks & Recreation Master Plan
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Rochester Parks & Recreation Master Plan Online Questionnaire Comments In October 2015, an online questionnaire asked participants about their satisfaction with the quality, amenities, and programming of Rochester's parks and recreational facilities. The nearly 2200 responses received provide a comprehensive foundation for guiding development of a system wide plan for parks in our community. The following pages include full comments received directly through the online questionnaire. Most comments have been organized into relevant categories of interest. Rochester Parks and Recreation Master Plan Online Questionnaire Comments Comments Regarding Maintenance (not categorized) A few more trash/recycling containers would help Assessing playgrounds annually or bi-annual for repairs, improvements, or cleaning. At Watson, benches either broke or with sharp edges, also sprinkler control covers missing at Watson, dangerous holes to step in. Baseball fields for RYBA should be fixed Bathrooms are horrendous. Seriously how much do stall doors cost! bathrooms could be cleaner/better repair Bathrooms sometimes are locked or not available. BEtter toilets with doors on the women's toilets Bike trail maint is marginal and trail to trail connectivity is minimal Bike trails in general are in poor condition. Bike trails in Northwest Rochester are poorly maintained/very cracked/bumpy & not well connected. bike trails very cracked and bumpy. culvert heave between homestead addition and homestead trails bleachers,backstops,benches could use a little work. jagged edges from lawn mowers pushing them out of way to Bridge decks are in dangerous disrepair BUG SPRAYING......I COACH FOOTBALL AT SOUTH POINT PARK AND THE BUGS ARE ABSOLUTLY TERRIBLE bumpy trails and trails with debris are difficult to rollerblade on clean bathroom or portable toilets are important Cooke Park restrooms are terrible. Could have better maintanance on outdoor tennis courts Cracked and loose blacktop, bike trails should be updated Depends on the park Essex Park prairie area needs burn and less dog traffic Except for the ballfields at Gage :( Excessive waste is frequently seen at many soccer complexes which the mowing crew does not attempt to pick up resulting in smaller debris across the field. I have seen hats, Dick's and jerseys mowed over. Extremely unacceptable response at Youth ball field by John Adams with mound of dirt sitting for weeks - Parents had to level that out. No excuse for that - poor job by Park & Rec for that. Faster response for tail blockages/over hanging trees Feel that restrooms could be open year round and more water fountains, barely any water fountains Fields are great. Courts (tennis, basketball) show wear. Filthy bathrooms at Silver Lake Fix Foster Arends Trail!!!!! fungus grows in bath house at soldiers field gross Garbage and weeds in kids play areas, ie silver lake park. geese issues need to be better controlled. Golf clubhouses at Northern Hills and Eastwood are an embarrassment. Not what was promised by the city. Golf course mowing has been awful since they changed a few years back. Graffitti removal is very slow Grass not mowed for Practice on some fields. Hard to run and kick a ball. grass trails should be maintained by Park and Rec. Not clubs. That a lot of free hours. Grateful to P&R. We had an issue with our neighborhood park that involved seedy behavior and people just hanging out. An acutal shooting occured. They helped put in an ice rink to increase good activity to keep the bad activity out. Thank you. Rochester Parks and Recreation Master Plan Online Questionnaire Comments Page 1 Comments Regarding Maintenance (not categorized) Hire more works to help with mowing and trail needs if you great parks you need to invest in the people who take care of them! I appreciate that the garbages are maintained. I appreciate that the lawn is allowed to grow in the rough of Soldiers Field Golf Course. I believe ALL parks should get new mulch at the start of each spring or summer. I dislike seeing mowers out in rain&wet grass times. I understand about schedules, but that seems unnecessary I don't like the use of herbicides and pesticides in the parks I mainly use the parks to MTB, ski and recreational bike ride on the paved trails. Without the privately provided RASC maintenance, the MTB and nordic ski trails would be unusable. I scored these as acceptable but there is definately room for improvement. Playground equipment broken, edging around playground area disrupted, etc... I think you could mow a lot less area in most parks. Let more go wild. I wish there were less mowed areas, more natural parkland I would like to see a little bit more attention to the outdoor ice rinks in the winter. I would like to see more cleaning of sidewalks in winter for activities I would like to see more native plant areas incorporated into parks. No point in mowing areas that nobody uses for recreation. If you provide porta potties they should be checked frequently. Invasive species control is very limited. Our natural areas are in terrible condition. it needs outdoor shows frequently and festivals It takes a long time to get broken things fixed. I've been to dozens and dozens of ice rinks throughout Minnesota and Wisconsin. Maintenance here is the worst I've ever experienced. Ice is terrible and no way to get from warming house to ice. Just brutal. keeping leaves. debris off trails is poor Kutsky park tennis courts are the pits. Needs new base and keep courts from cracking (post tension concrete) lack of lacrosse fields Landscape (shrub) maintainance is poor and short sighted. less mowing, more prairie and forest needed Litter and graffiti are bad local neighborhood parks need maintenance, cleaning, and updating!! FYI police should patrol park areas more to ensure a nice environment for children and families. maintain trails for winter use maintenance and enabling of woodland and prairie plants is low Maintenance at Mayo field is horrid. Bathrooms are discusting. Filthy!!! Maintenance in swim lockerrooms at Soldier's Field is poor. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 highest, I rate it a 3 Maintenance workers are sometimes not considerate of trail users when mowing or otherwise maintaining trails Many trails are undermaintained. Mayo Baseball Field could use alot of help. The bathrooms are in need of more than a simple repair, especially the ones in the locker rooms! Mayo Field (while not a literal park but since it's under the parks and rec dept) is dreadful. Bathrooms are in dire need of repair, concessions are so small that accommodating crowds is limited and the scoreboard is missing so many lights that one can't even decipher what the score is during games. Mayo Field is beyond bad! Mayo Field is in a terrible need for an upgrade. I have heard two women on separate occasions state they refuse to use the bathrooms at Mayo Field. Rochester Parks and Recreation Master Plan Online Questionnaire Comments Page 2 Comments Regarding Maintenance (not categorized) More chairs at pools would be great!! More garbage/recycling along walking paths Mow in the rain, leave huge clumps of grass, moving soccer fields are awful, played several games were it an embarrassment to be on the home team, clumps of grass stoping play, refs/players tripping over badly mowed Mowing=should not be done near children playing! Must include snow removal Nachreiner park has some equipment in need of care Natural space, native ecosystem maintenance is very poor. Invasive species are abundant and management is very, very limited. need better swimming facilities Need more lighted tennis courts. Many Tennis court surfaces in poor condition Need to better maintain tennis courts Need to have rubber walkways from warming houses to ice in the winter. nice job picking up mayo park after summer shows! North Park playground equipment needs major repair or replacement! Not much leadership! Workers said they just go thru the motions! Often there's a need for more woodchips in the playgrounds Other than Soldiers Field, the tennis courts are in terrible shape. Soldiers are pretty good but the paint is peeling Parking At Watson Soccer Complex on Saturday Mornings Is Ridiculous Parks need more garbage receptables Parks with bathrooms are not well majntained Parkwoods Hill Park is not updated. The sidewalk has graffiti on it. Some of the equipment is broken. It's the park that my daughter and I frequent because we live in Parkwood Hills. It's surrounded by $300,000 homes and Permanent toilot facilities needed at youth football fields pickleball courts are VERY unsafe Pickleball/tennis courts need new surfaces placing rocks that block access to elderly people at the fishing area by the Zumbro community garden plots was a tragedy, unnecessary and had no effect other than blocking reasonable accommodation for Minnesotans who can no longer exercise their riparian rights to access waterways touching public lands. One person with power arbitrarily made that decision and did nothing to correct it when the senselessness was brought to his attention. There used to be a restored prairie in full bloom in that area but it was nearly destroyed by the contractor that dredged the river (the rocks were purportedly placed to prevent soil erosion from the occasional vehicles that parked closer to the river...they were parked there, often, so people who struggle with mobility could access the river --- which they can no longer do in that location). In the meantime, city vehicles get driven down all the way from up above, disturbing the the recovery of native prairie plants. If a rescue boat ever needs to be launched there, it's going to be a mess.