Growing Zenger Farm

Open House

May 25, 2010 at 3:05 pm Leave a comment

Thank you to the more than 15 community members who attended the Growing Zenger Farm open house on Saturday, May 15th at the Zenger farmhouse.

Ecotone and PLACE presented three site design concepts that had been developed using input from the public design workshop on April 25^th and from the project’s technical advisory committee.  During the two-hour open house, visitors ranked the alternatives, gave written feedback via post-it notes, and shared verbal feedback with project coordinators.

Here are photos of the design concept posters at the end of the day:

Concept A was the publically-preferred choice, but comments from all three alternatives were useful and many were incorporated into Ecotone’s subsequent preferred site design.

Here are some of the comments we received:

• ADA accessibility is important
• arbor could have flowers too-arbor is architecturally pleasing, tells neighbors there’s investment; current Zenger gateway is too primitive though and could include seating for gathering space
• more fruit tree buffer
• include educational info kiosk around covered area
• get a grant to purchase the junior acre across from Furey -educational space that can be locked; put educational signs inside the education junior and combination worker housing grant for farming immigrants
• picnic tables are important to get people into nature and to appreciate it
• bees
• compost toilet with lock good! opportunity to use new sustainable technology – yes!
• composting toilet preferred over chemical
• glad to see open space for farming and public use
• porta potty will reduce environmental pollution and erosion from people going off paths
• include information on native plants and animals and the homestead in educational kiosk
• education for schools: make preventing vandalism a high priority
• handicap parking and nose in to provide more parking space
• rezone 117^th for low-density, no apartments!!!!!!!!
• signs are being quickly vandalized….how to prevent???
• yes, tree preservation important
• if boardwalk from bike trail is fenced so that 117^th is not accessible but opens to parkland, the neighbors will be much happier
• zone 117^th for open space
• see this as vision for greenspace sanctuary for 122^nd high-density
• no matter which plan you choose, please save the Doug firs!!!!!!!!!!!

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