Planning Begins for Santa Rosa’s Southeast Greenway Park

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Nearly two years after Santa Rosa purchased the 2.2-mile-long, 300-foot-wide expanse known as the Southeast Greenway, the city and its partners, including Sonoma Land Trust and a grassroots group led by neighbors, are shifting focus to planning for the future park. Community members can share their vision for the site through an online survey and at two upcoming November workshops. Additional opportunities to provide feedback are anticipated later in the fall and early winter and the effort will culminate with the creation of a draft park masterplan, which is expected to be released next summer.

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Petaluma River Park

parks/public space

Petaluma River Park is a 35-acre public park – a rare piece of undeveloped waterfront land in the heart of downtown Petaluma. Serving a broad and diverse group of residents and visitors from Petaluma, Sonoma County, and the Bay Area at large, the new park creates a common space that connects people, art, and nature. The project takes a thoughtful approach to park-making – collaborating with historically excluded communities to design a space centered on equity, accessibility, and shared stewardship.
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Sunset Dunes

engagement

The Sunset Dunes engagement and community-building initiative advances new possibilities for this 50-acre oceanfront open space, transformed from part-time promenade to full-time park. Guided by principles of Community, Climate + Nature Resilience, Accessibility, and Joy, the effort combines outreach with investments in daily infrastructure and programming, bringing together diverse communities around a shared vision for their future park.
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Flood Park

parks/public space

Building on the collaborative engagement effort for Realize Flood Park, the revitalized landscape and park amenity improvements bring together a new unified vision that meets the ecological and social needs of the San Mateo community. Flood Park restores this neighborhood open space asset with a light and respectful design touch – preserving urban ecology through historical tree preservation, introducing new successional tree planting and grasslands, while creating new recreational and social programming.
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Realize Flood Park

engagement

Flood Park is a 25-acre park with a diverse mix of cultural, recreational, and ecological resources. For 86 years, it has been a favorite location for family and group picnics, community gatherings, a place for walks and bird watching, and a range of sports activities. Building on the Reimagine Flood Park planning process, CMG has joined with the San Mateo County Parks Department to realize the vision by developing an equitable community engagement process to inform and enrich the design.