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Improve Our Park: an Improvement Plan for Fairmount Park IMPROVE OUR PARK: AN IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR FAIRMOUNT PARK HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT This PDF allows you to interact with the document in a different way. Click the buttons on each page to go to whatever section most interests you. Jump from section to section. Run your mouse over photos and callout bubbles. Click on hyperlinks for more information. You can always click the HOME button to take you back to the main table of contents. Or, just click the arrows on the bottom right of each page to move forward or backward one page at a time. Choose your own adventure as you learn more about East and West Fairmount Park! GO! This report is the culmination of a year-long research, engagement and planning process that aims to give Philadelphians from all walks of life easier access Clean, safe and well-managed new stewardship, united community voice Resident access to the park. Fairmount Park is the heart of our park safe, attractive entrances to the park system and its health is a reflection of our health. Seven million people use the park each year and Redesigned I-76 1.1 million people receive water from the park, while bring the park under the highway Well-connected trail system neighborhoods from Wynnefield to Brewerytown complete access for walkers and bikers struggle to access it every day. The recommendations in this Improvement Plan are New grandstands and footbridge based on input received from over 1,000 citizens, with better access to Peter’s Island Overlooks particular emphasis on park users and residents from provide incomparable views of the park nearby communities. Leadership and guidance was provided by an 86-organization Advisory Group of Rerouted Belmont Avenue park and community leaders. creates a quieter, safer park experience Community engagement programming at the edges This map summarizes our key recommendations, for residents which include: New park-with-a-park • Make it easy for citizens to get to, new neighborhood access into and through the park; New pedestrian crossing to park landmarks • Create opportunities for citizens on Columbia Rail Bridge not currently possible to enjoy nature and water; • Offer new ways to the use the park; Signature horticultural center • Give pedestrians and cyclists priority a botanic garden in Fairmount Park New pedestrian bridge over motorists; and connects the park without needing a car • Engage citizens in the long-term care and support of the park. New public boat house engages more citizens with the Schuylkill The report builds on numerous recent planning Tame the speedways processes—in particular, Greenworks Philadelphia, with pedestrian activated Philadelphia2035, Green City, Clean Waters, and the traffic signals on busy roads Roadway dieting and traffic calming Philadelphia Trail Master Plan—all in an effort to tie to means fewer cars, more people the larger sustainability goals of the City of Philadelphia. WHILE PHILADELPHIANS LOVE FAIRMOUNT PARK—AN EXTRAORDINARY 2,050-ACRE NATURAL AND CULTURAL RESPITE DEEP IN THE HEART OF THE CITY—WE CAN MAKE IT A BETTER PARK FOR CITIZENS TO USE AND ENJOY. GO TO THE TABLE OF CONTENTS IMPROVE OUR PARK: AN IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR FAIRMOUNT PARK WHY FAIRMOUNT PARK THE BIG VISION FIRST STEPS FOCUS AREAS Letter From Harris Steinberg, Fairmount Park is the undisputed Fairmount Park is an essential To maintain the great gifts that The project team analyzed Executive Director, heart of Philadelphia’s prized park resource for neighbors and the Fairmount Park provides, we five “focus areas” that have the PennPraxis system. Although its splendor has city as a whole, but it can be so must nourish and support this opportunity to restore key park been compromised over time, much more. After extensive input park so that new generations of access to adjacent neighborhoods, its value to neighbors and all from citizens, the team proposes Philadelphians may enjoy it. Here link seemingly disparate portions of Philadelphians is at an all-time a short- and long-term strategy are the team’s recommendations the park together and get residents high. However, like any working for improvement that focuses on for building momentum to back to the water. We frame our infrastructure, Fairmount Park restoring park-wide public access, re-connect residents to the park. recommendations around the creeks How We Engaged must now adapt to maintain that preserving natural resources, that flow through these portions of value to the city. meeting community needs for the park, providing users with direct Appendix recreation and strengthening public access and opportunities to management and stewardship. learn about water quality. Participant Credits INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION INTRODUCTION ONE OF A KIND TOP RECOMMENDATIONS PRIORITY SHORT-TERM ACTIONS OVERVIEW Bibliography OUR DRINKING WATER FOLLOW THE CREEKS NEXT ACTIONS STRAWBERRY MANSION GATEWAY 7 MILLION USERS BRING PEOPLE TO THE WATER BUILD ON EXISTING MOMENTUM BREWERYTOWN GATEWAY DIVERSE LANDSCAPES TAME THE ROADS ALIGN WITH PARALLEL PLANNING EAST PARKSIDE GATEWAY ASSEMBLED, NEEDS DESIGN CONNECT WITH TRAILS WEST PARKSIDE GATEWAY GETTING IN BUILD NEW ENTRANCES 33RD STREET GATEWAY MANY PARKS MORE THINGS TO DO CIVIC SUPPORT MAPS AND APPS LEGION OF CHAMPIONS UNFINISHED BUSINESS HOME Lodged deep in the heart of Philadelphia’s northern and western neighborhoods, East and West Fairmount Park stretches over 2,050 verdant acres along the Schuylkill River from the Fairmount Water Works to East Falls. To many, Fairmount Park (as East and West Park was originally known) is synonymous with Philadelphia. From her incomparable vistas, deep shaded glades, capacious playing fields and broad expanses of river, East and West Park is a gift of unparalleled foresight and urban generosity from the 19th century. Begun in 1844 to preserve and protect Philadelphia’s drinking water, the park was conceived as a monumental working landscape in which the design of the water supply system—from intake to filtration to distribution—elegantly conveyed the intrinsic relationship between water and daily life. Astonishingly, the park still provides water to 1.6 million citizens every day. Nowhere else in America, or the world, do we find this remarkable fusion of the relationship between public water, public nature and public life. It’s important to note that East and West Park was never envisioned as a unified urban park. Rather, it evolved as an ad hoc collection of summer estates and landscapes acquired to ensure safe drinking water to the rapidly growing industrial city. As such, East and West Park stands in direct contrast to their contemporaneous Olmstead and Vaux parks in cities around the country. Those parks were designed whole-cloth as artistic landscapes supporting their local real estate markets. As a result, East and West Park never developed a singular identity. Indeed, East and West Park remains to this day an aggregation of many parks with different identities to different people and user groups. Importantly, there is no overarching volunteer group for East and West Park. And yet, as the irreplaceable heart of Philadelphia’s esteemed park system, East and West Park remains vital to the social, economic and environmental health of the city and its citizens. And while usage of the park is at an all-time high, city resources for the park system as a whole are stretched thin. In addition, we have allowed the park to become degraded over the years with incursions such as the Schuylkill Expressway in the mid-20th century and the evolution of the elegant river drives into high- speed commuter routes. A plethora of streams and tributaries have been cut off and forced underground and regional-scale events compete with neighborhood-scale activities along the community edges. Access to and through the park is a challenge. Which brings us to the central questions of this study: how might we imagine and reinvigorate East and West Park for the 21st century? How do we ensure its viability for the next 150 years? What investments are required to bolster its use and enable more people to use the park in more ways? What role can the park play in meeting the sustainability goals of the City of Philadelphia? East and West Fairmont Park is our ultimate democratic meeting space bringing Philadelphians from all walks of life together under its green sheltering bower. It still brings us water every day. While cities around the world compete today to reclaim lost waterfronts, we’ve inherited the real thing. But we cannot afford to rest on our laurels. In order for the park, and the city, to continue to thrive, the park must be nourished and supported if it is to continue to nurture new generations of Philadelphians. Harris M. Steinberg, FAIA Executive Director, PennPraxis HOME WHY FAIRMOUNT PARK THE BIG VISION FIRST STEPS FOCUS AREAS _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ _______________ EAST AND WEST FAIRMOUNT PARK IS: assets challenges ONE OF A KIND ASSEMBLED, NEEDS DESIGN OUR DRINKING WATER GETTING IN 7 MILLION USERS MANY PARKS DIVERSE LANDSCAPES CIVIC SUPPORT HOME WHY FAIRMOUNT PARK THE BIG VISION FIRST STEPS FOCUS AREAS < > N O K K E lphia C IC E ade ou H R il n A h ty C P S S n I EAST FALLS W NO OTHER PARK IN THE COUNTRY MATCHES ITS SIZE, py Ex elt CENTRAL LOCATION, AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH w e sev Roo OF RESIDENTS OF THE REGION. WYNNEFIELD s Belmont Ave HEIGHTS ALLEGHENY WEST 7 million annual visitors 2,050 acres R City Ave E
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