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High Rock Park Conceptual Plan Building on a Legacy of Urban Nature and Environmental Education High Rock Park Conceptual Plan Building on a legacy of urban nature and environmental education Plan prepared by NYC Parks’ Planning and Parklands division in partnership with the Staten Island Greenbelt Administrator and Greenbelt Conservancy November 2014 “[High Rock’s] greatest challenge: to provide, without loss or waste to the physical resource itself, the opportunity for people to discover joy and significance in the relatedness of all things hitched together under the roof of the house of life.” - John G. Mitchell High Rock and the Greenbelt 2Figure 1 High Rock Park Conceptual Plan Table of Contents Staten Island Introduction..............................4 Plan Process............................6 Plan Priorities...........................8 Site History..............................10 High Rock Park Existing Conditions..................12 Greenbelt Plan Proposal..........................19 Costs and Implementation.......32 Image Credits..........................34 1 Introduction: “The Buckle of the Greenbelt” In coordination with the Greenbelt Administrator and Conservancy, the As well as being a place of natural preservation, High Rock is a place NYC Parks Department’s Planning division was asked to assess the of transformation. High Rock Park has long been known as a nexus of physical and programming needs of High Rock Park, and develop a environmental learning; its education program was designated a “National Conceptual Plan for its near and long-term future. Specifically, we set out Environmental Education Landmark” by the National Parks Service in to address a series of questions: 1971. Over the past decades, thousands of New York City schoolchildren as part of camps, school field trips, and family programs, have come to 1. What kinds of new facilities are most needed? High Rock to learn about the natural world around them, and have come 2. How can we rethink access and parking? away transformed. 3. How can the landscape improve the site? 4. How can we better serve the community with events and It is our intention, through this Conceptual Plan, to build on High programming? Rock’s legacy as a place of both preservation and transformation. The recommendations within this report aim to build upon what generations of High Rock Park is a 90.5-acre site situated within the Staten Island New Yorkers have come to love about High Rock Park, and to extend the Greenbelt, an NYC flagship park consisting of nearly 3,000 acres and reach of this special place into future generations. more than 35 miles of trails. Known as “the Buckle of the Greenbelt,” High Rock Park is a unique natural preserve, boasting diverse topography and ecology. Its forests, ravines, wetlands, swamps, and creeks provide a backdrop of natural landscape that is exceedingly rare in New York City. Figure 2: Students on a field trip participate in a “pond dip” Figure 3: Lake Orbach 4 High Rock Park Conceptual Plan Figure 4: A naturalist walk Figure 5: Bullfrog at High Rock A Framework for the Future The High Rock Conceptual Plan is intended to serve as a framework for High Rock’s improvement over the next several years. Some of the recommendations here are for major capital investments: these much-needed new facilities, landscape improvements, and ecological restorations will be costly, but essential to High Rock’s continuing success. These improvements cannot be made all at once. Rather, this conceptual plan can be thought of as a menu from which the Greenbelt leadership, NYC Parks, and funders can choose, prioritizing projects as needed, and implementing over time. This report includes a recommended phasing plan, prioritizing improvements which can be done relatively inexpensively and make a big impact. A strategic approach to long-term planning, in coordination with a community of stakeholders, the Greenbelt, and NYC Parks can ensure that each future investment in High Rock Park results in improvements that have the greatest positive impact for future park users, and for the park itself. Figure 6: High Rock’s Council Ring Introduction 5 2 Plan Process Overview Input from community stakeholders was key in the Conceptual Plan’s to identify the issues surrounding the park, but to help establish shared development, leading directly to many elements within the final priorities for its improvement. In May 2014, the site analysis phase recommendations. The plan process began with a site analysis in March concluded with a presentation to the High Rock community, where NYC 2014, and went through multiple phases of design and concept drafting. Parks discussed the analysis and presented a draft list of plan priorities. At each phase, public input led to a new and more informed direction. Phase 2 of the plan process began with another round of stakeholder Phase 1 began with a series of initial site visits and introductory conversations and site visits, and resulted in the development of three conversations, specifically focusing on opportunities and constraints alternate draft design scenarios for High Rock Park.The three scenarios created by the site’s natural features, existing user groups, condition of were presented to the community in June 2014, this time to a larger buildings, access, and circulation. The goal of this phase was not only audience. Following the feedback received at this meeting, Parks was able to eliminate some potential options while further developing others. three sketches Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3 Phase 4 stakeholder focus individual groups conversations FINAL PLAN site analysis draft plan conversations and site visits conversations and site visits March 2014 April 2014 May 2014 June 2014 July 2014 August 2014 September 2014 October 2014 6 High Rock Park Conceptual Plan • Reorient • Limit increased administrative, traffic on Phase 3 began with a series of targeted focus groups comprised of key field staff, and Summit Avenue stakeholders including educators, neighbors and park users. These other offices to • Discourage make better use negative use meetings served as workshops through which potential plan elements of existing and at Summit Ave. Greenbelt potential space Neighbors entrance were refined and narrowed further. Through this process, NYC Parks was Address runoff Staff and Volunteers • Increase • able to narrow the menu of design and programming options into a single weekend staff issues presence draft plan. This draft plan was presented to the community in September • Provide a wider range of 2014. programming Phase 4 followed September’s draft plan meeting, as NYC Parks further developed the plan elements that most resonated with the community. • Update facilities • Stress for staff offices cleanliness and Parks developed rough cost estimates as part of this phase, and a • Renovate maintenance current of facilities and broad, phased implementation strategy to include as a supplement to educaton trails buildings and • Diversify the physical plan. The final document was presented to the Greenbelt’s Educators labs Park Users programming • Build on the • Better Executive Board and members of the public in October 2014. education orientation/ program as navigation the foundation through signage of High Rock Throughout the process, input from the community was considered a Park’s success crucial component, giving direction to and shaping the final proposal. Though there was a great deal of overlap between stakeholders, six primary stakeholder groups were consulted throughout all phases of the drafting and site design: • Prioritize runoff • Maintain the issues and park’s original ecological character damage to as much as 1. Greenbelt Staff and Volunteers Walker Pond possible 2. Educators Environmentalists • Improved trails Site • Celebrate the and Conservationists damaged by history of the 3. Environmentalists and Conservationists mountain biking Historians park through its • Add interpretive improvements 4. Neighbors elements to • Utilize the 5. Park Users showcase the park’s history park’s ecology and past plans 6. Site Historians to inform the new plan Some of the key feedback from these six groups is summarized in the adjacent diagram. Public Process 7 Figure 7: A wren at High Rock Park Figure 8: The Gretta Moulton entrance gate 3 Plan Priorities Site analysis and stakeholder feedback led to the creation of six guiding priorities, forming the foundation of the Conceptual Plan’s recommendations: 1. Park Character: Maintain what is already special: the “walk in the woods” feeling. 2. Environmental Education: Renovate and expand facilities to s support a growing education program. 3. Parking and Accessibility: Make parking more logical, and make the park more accessible. 4. Operations Facilities: Rethink operations facilities to better meet the Greenbelt’s needs. 5. Public Amenities: Improve public-facing features like signage, interpretive features, and a small event space where appropriate. 6. Ecological Restoration: Restore and maintain the park’s most valuable assets, adding green infrastructure where necessary. Figure 9: Hikers on High Rock’s Yellow Trail 8 High Rock Park Conceptual Plan Figure 10 4 Site History Natural Environmental Education Landmark in 1971, making tribute to its vast success. The program remained under the Institute until 1989, when management was transferred to the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation. In 1971, Gretta Moulton passed away, and a gate at the Nevada Avenue entrance was constructed in her honor in 1995. Today, the Gretta Moulton gate remains a symbol of the park’s legacy, and functions
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