Parks Master Plans
Parks Division Master Plans
Shaping Westpark For The Future
Westpark is the city's oldest athletic and recreational complex - built in 1950. It is also one of the most heavily used city park facilities and was last renovated in the 1980s. Recognizing the need to update the facility, the City City Council hired the firm of Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects to develop a conceptual management plan for the site. The Plan is now complete.
The process involved a significant amount of citizen input that lead to creative and innovative approaches for improving the park. The finished Plan includes four schemes for renovating, rehabilitating or constructing new facilities. Costs range from two to twenty million dollars. The project is included in the City's Capital Improvement Plan for phased future implementation as funds become available.
Cemetery Memorial Park Improvements
Cemetery Memorial Park Landscape Master Plan ( click for larger view )
In May 2007, City Council approved hiring the landscape architecture services of Katherine Spitz & Associates and artist services of Susan Narduli Studio to develop a plan for Cemetery Memorial Park improvements. The proposed plan is now complete and was presented at a joint public meeting of the Parks and Recreation Commission and the Public Art Commission on September 17, 2008. The Plan includes a memorial to commemorate those buried at the cemetery, memorial gardens, refurbished landscaping, veterans’ memorial walk and flagpole, and repairs to the historic WPA rock wall.
Additional public comment was taken at the Parks & Recreation Commission meeting Nov. 19, 2008.
City Council will discuss the $6 million proposed plan in 2009. Currently no funding exists for the improvements, but the project could be done in phases as future funding becomes available.
Grant Park Master Plan
Situated above historical downtown Ventura, our 107-acre Grant Park is primarily open space. The City Council approved a project to develop a master plan for the park; however, the project has been deferred until funding becomes available.