Public Community Meeting for Church Square Park Thursday July 26th 6:30-8:30pm at Hoboken Library
Updated Post July 26th 2012:
CHURCH SQUARE PARK COMMUNITY MEETING RELOCATED TO HOBOKEN LIBRARY
Due to the possibility of inclement weather, the public meeting scheduled for 6:30pm today at the gazebo of Church Square Park regarding improvements to the park will be relocated. The meeting will take place at the second floor reading room of the Hoboken Public Library, located at 500 Park Avenue.
Original Post July 20th 2012:
The City of Hoboken Has scheduled a meeting for next week to get final public input for modifications to Church Square Park. Show up at the Gazebo and have your voice heard…..
PUBLIC INVITED TO COMMUNITY MEETING FOR CHURCH SQUARE PARK
The Hoboken community is invited to attend a public meeting to view and provide feedback on the final conceptual plan for Church Square Park. The meeting will be held at the gazebo at Church Square Park on Thursday, July 26 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.
Meetings to solicit public input regarding improvements to Church Square Park were previously held on May 17 and June 12, 2012.
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Overall, I think the park looks very nice since it has reopened.I do think, thoguh, that I would like to see more overall green and vegetation, especially in the form of wild areas. A lot of trees came down, and while the current park is still very green, I would like to see it planned so that the vegetation can fill out more in the future.I maintain a page about , and according to the principles explained on that page, the current landscaping in Clark Park is good, but could be better. I think the weakest point is that there are virtually no wild areas. Yes, it is a small city park, but there is more than enough room for small wild areas, especially in the flower beds in various parts of the park. Maintaining these beds is labor- and resource-intensive. Leaving areas wild can both save on maintenance effort and costs, and also provide greater ecological value.Rather than planting these with purchased, cultivated plants, I think it would be better to grow native plants from seed, and then maintain the beds only by removing aggressive non-native plants and trimming the beds.People might say but we want the park to look nice , and it looks ugly if it’s overgrown. But personally, I think that the lusher and denser the vegetation, the nicer it gets. Air quality is also an issue in Philly in the summer, and the denser and more diverse the vegetation is, the more pollutants will be absorbed. Current, to me, the park looks too carefully manicured for my aesthetic sense. Everything in it is carefully landscaped and planted. I would appreciate a wilder, more lush park, filled out with dense vegetation in the flower beds, with native plants allowed to reproduce naturally in a number of areas.What do you think? I would like to work together with others to make this happen.
Comment by Maria — August 10, 2012 @ 5:32 AM