Park Smart Precinct One by Saima Musharrat

WHAT WE HEARD Community Workshops April 2018

Contents Introduction 4 Project Schedule

Community Engagement Framework

Community Workshop Intent

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Precinct One Commissioner Rodney Ellis and participants at Lincoln Park Community Workshop; image: Asakura Robinson

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Introduction

Park-Smart Precinct One kicked off in mid-November, and staged its first series of Community Workshops just three weeks later between December 5th and 9th. The four workshops of December are comprehensively documented in the What We Heard report and were conducted at four diverse venues-Emancipation Park in the Historic Third Ward, Hardy Senior Center in North Houston/ Acres Homes, Westbury High School in Southwest Houston, and Harvest Time Church in the Greenspoint area. The locations were deliberately scattered across the Precinct to reach as many residents as possible, but all are established facilities with longstanding ties to their adjacent communities. The second round of workshops, included in this report, were held at venues throughout the region as well -- Lincoln Park in Acres Homes, San Jacinto College North Campus in northeast Harris County, Ross Sterling Aviation High School in the southern reaches of Precinct One near South Acres and Crestmont neighborhoods, and Houston Community College Brays Oaks Campus in Southwest Houston. The Park-Smart Community Workshops are one part of a robust and multi-faceted community engagement approach that places the residents of Precinct One at the center of the planning process. Other opportunities to participate in the Park-Smart project include speak-outs at civic events, interviews, an online survey, a telephone poll, and the community trails app. To date, community members have been engaged at over thirty speakouts and workshops throughout Precinct One, and over 1,500 residents responded to the survey and telephone poll. The community workshops are perhaps the most visible component of these various engagement opportunities. Community outreach preceded the recent events and aimed to reach as many residents as possible in the communities immediately adjacent to the workshop venues through flyers and postcards shared with local institutions, distributed by hand, and sent via mail and electronically. Social media efforts complemented the canvassing work with the aim of reaching more interested community members through their various social networks. Approximately 200 community members participated in the second round of four workshops included in this report. The workshops all included the same five breakout stations facilitated by members of the planning team:

• Parks for All: This station provided people an opportunity to define equity in park investments. Participants were provided a fixed set of dollars to allocate across four distinct parks (unidentifiable aerials) that had different socioeconomic, land use, and access indicators, in addition to distinct impacts from Hurricane Harvey. The intent was to generate an understanding for how different communities define equity and allocate limited resources across areas of different need. • Picturing Access and Safety: This activity utilized a large poster with precedent examples (one for access; one for safety) for a range of real-world ways that access and safety features can better support park design. • Programming Parks: Participants were provided with precedent images on a large poster of programs already provided by Precinct One and a stack of 11x17 blank announcement posters that allowed them to share the specifics of their dream event including the audience, activity, location, duration, and other key details through writing and drawing. • Ranking Resilience: Participants were asked to vote for real-world examples on a range of community development measures that could help a typical Precinct One neighborhood adapt and become more resilient (i.e. flood detention, tree canopy, sidewalks, public transit, etc.). • Community Trails App: This was the only station at the workshops that relied on technology. Dedicated computer workstations were provided where participants could access the same user-generated mapping application available on the project website. The mapping application allowed residents to share their everyday walking and biking routes, as well as the obstacles and hazards they encounter along the way. The input received at the various work stations across the four different community workshops was varied and diverse. This document includes a range of charts designed to summarize some key results. The analysis of the workshop input began with a careful inventory of every response received to each of these workshop stations, followed by categorizing the input into broader focus areas in a way that would not compromise the intent or variety of the specific responses. The ultimate goal of this analysis is to present the input shared at the workshops in a form that is both constructive for park and trail planning and provides transparency to the Park-Smart Precinct One project’s overall process. Community Workshop announcement flier

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Project Schedule

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Community Engagement Framework

Community Workshop Intent

OVERVIEW

Active Transit Route Mapping App

WORKSHOP LOCATIONS

Community participation is central to the Park-Smart Precinct One project. As such, the framework for community engagement includes a wide variety of opportunities for participation designed to enable all residents to provide input. The project website, www.parksmartprecinct1.com is the project’s central hub of information where residents will find links to project updates, engagement event schedule, online survey, active transit route mapping, and documentation from the Community Workshops.

The active transit route mapping app is a mapping program developed by the planning team to allow Precinct One residents to map the routes they commonly use to walk or bike in and around the Precinct, as well as hazardous intersections and barriers to access. The app is linked to the project website and was made available on computer work stations at other project events as appropriate. The App received a large response over six months and is now closed.

The locations were selected to build on ongoing engagement activities throughout Precinct One held to date by the project team and community stakeholders. Workshop locations were selected based on the following criteria:

Parks & Trails Survey The parks and trails survey is an online and printed survey allowing residents to share thoughts about current parks and trails, and where to focus future improvements. The survey was available in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese. The survey closed in February, 2018 and had approximately 1100 responses.

Speak-outs Speak-outs are appearances by the planning team to share the project, meet residents, and get input at existing community events within the precinct.

Community Workshops The community workshops are large public events held at multiple locations within Precinct One to ensure as many residents can attend as possible. At the three junctures in the schedule where community workshops will take place, the planning team will host four separate meetings at four unique locations throughout Precinct One.

• Accessibility to residents from various community regions in Precinct One, particularly locations with less engagement activities to date, • Established venues with strong community ties, • Large enough venues to accomodate turnout, AND • Equipped with audio/visual capabilities.

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The fifth workshop (the first in the April series) was held at Lincoln Park in the Acres Homes community, situated in the northwest region of Precinct One.

The sixth event was held at San Jacinto College - North Campus’ Interactive Learning Center in the rapidly growing area of northeast Harris County and proximate to many communities that were devastated by Hurricane Harvey. The seventh event was held at Ross Sterling Aviation High School near the South Acres/Crestmont community in the southern reaches of Precinct One close to Sims Bayou. The eighth workshop was held at Houston Community College Brays Oaks in Southwest Houston, near Westbury/Braeswood areas.

The focus groups are group interview and feedback sessions with selected Precinct One residents and other stakeholders addressing specific park-related topics.

Interviews

Approximately 50 interviews were conducted with local experts. The interviews were formal conversations that planning team held with dozens of diverse residents and stakeholders in Precinct One. The interviews covered a range of perspectives relating to parks, trails, and other community issues relevant to Precinct One residents.

Lincoln Park Community Center San Jacinto College - North Campus 6:30pm - 8:00pm , April 18, 2018

6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 17, 2018

Focus Groups

Ross Sterling Aviation High School 6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 23, 2018

HCC - Brays Oaks Campus

Emancipation Park, December 5, 2017

Hardy Senior Center, December 6, 2017

Westbury High School, December 7, 2017

Harvest Time Church, December 9, 2017

6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 26, 2018

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Community Workshop Intent

WORKSHOP DESIGN Parks for All Expanding on the broader equity mission of the project, this activity was designed to both educate participants on the “nuts and bolts” of allocating resources across the Precinct as well as survey participants’ ideas for how to best do this. The activity provided visual narratives for four different neighborhood scenarios with varying degrees of density, social vulnerability, environmental assets and/or other opportunities and constraints, that are all in need of improved access to parks and open space. The four scenarios are abstract but based on actual Precinct One conditions. Participants were provided with a sheet of 20 stickers tokens, representing a wide range of possible park and trail investments from capital improvements to cultural programs that could improve each neighborhood scenario. Participants were asked to allocate these tokens to each of the four neighborhoods to create new parks and other improvements in an equitable way. Based on the number of tokens, participants were not be able to create the same improvements in each location, and instead needed to make thoughtful decisions about how to best allocate the resources given the needs, opportunities and constraints of each scenario. The activity also provided a space for participants to share their opinions about what equity means and what is most important to consider in planning for equity.

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WORKSHOP DESIGN Ranking Resilience This activity shared real-world examples for a wide range of interventions and improvements that could help a typical Precinct One neighborhood adapt and become more resilient. These features range from flood detention areas to expanded tree canopy to new transit, bike, and pedestrian facilities. Using these examples, participants were asked to rank the importance of each feature on a poster exhibit (low priority to high priority), creating a bar chart of preferred resilience strategies for each community. The intent was to understand community member preferences, and the ways these preferences may vary across the Precinct.

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Community Workshop Intent

WORKSHOP DESIGN Picturing Access

Picturing Safety

This activity was intended to provide a deeper exploration of what access in parks and on trails means to participants to help build a greater understanding of the range of best practices, and to expand on the input received at the December 2017 workshops. The activity utilized a large poster with precedent examples for a range of real-world ways that access can be enhanced in parks and on trails. Participants were asked to do two things: rank the precedents by level of importance, and provide written input from their favorite park for how access is provided or could be improved.

Similar to the Picturing Access activity, this activity was intended to provide a deeper exploration of what safety in parks and on trails means to participants and help build a greater understanding of the range of best practices. The activity utilized a large poster with precedent examples for a range of real-world ways that safety can be enhanced in parks and on trails. Participants were asked to do two things: rank the precedents by level of importance, and provide written input from their favorite park for how safety is provided or could be improved.

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Community Workshop Intent

WORKSHOP DESIGN Programming Parks This activity asks participants to develop an event or program that they believe will activate an underused park or simply something they would like to see happen at their favorite park. Participants were provided with precedent images on a large poster of programs already provided by Precinct One and a stack of 11x17 blank announcement posters that allowed them to share the specifics of their dream event including the audience, activity, location, duration, and other key details through writing and drawing.

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Community Workshop Intent

WORKSHOP DESIGN Community Trails Mapping The Community Trails Mapping App was created as a userfriendly tool to gather community-generated data on how the Precinct One residents move through the Precinct via active transportation (biking, walking, skateboarding, etc.). The intent of this station was to provide a means of using the mapping application, familiarize community members with the tool, and facilitate the data entry process. Through the App, users enter two types of data: their routes and hazardous intersections they encounter. Each entry of a route or hazardous intersection is followed by a series of questions. The user can choose to enter as many routes and hazardous intersections as they choose.

Community Workshop at HCC - Brays Oaks Campus; image: Asakura Robinson

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What We Heard

ALL WORKSHOPS SUMMARY Parks for All This activity required detailed explanation by facilitators to orient workshop participants. The exercise allowed participants to distribute finite resources across four parks with distinct socioeconomic, accessibility, and flooding characteristics in their surrounding neighborhoods -- to gauge how participants define equity in the context of park investments. Over the four workshops, participants used a total of 457 stickers to allocate â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;investmentsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; responding to the issues each neighborhood were confronting. Below is a list of neighborhood conditions used to inform participants at the workshop.

Overall, the share of resources were distributed between 30% for the highest ranked and 17% for the lowest scoring neighborhood -- favoring communities with higher social and economic vulnerabilities (i.e. neighborhoods 2 and 1 at 30% and 27%) than communities with higher economic conditions or solely environmental vulnerabilities (i.e. neighborhoods 4 and 3 at 25% and 17%). Neighborhood #2 received the most participation with 141 stickers or 30% of the share of resources where enhancing existing parks and connectivity were the most prevalent responses. Neighborhood #1 received 123 stickers or 27% of the resources, with the highest performing responses oriented toward investing in new parks, trails, and drainage improvements to deal with persistent flooding. Neighborhood #4 received 114 stickers or 25% of the share of resources, with recommendations focused on new parks, trail extensions, and a community center; and neighborhood #3 received 79 or 17% of resources, with trails extensions and upgraded the existing community center scored in the highest tier.

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In detailed breakdowns, trail extension received the most responses with 46 stickers, indicating the importance of neighborhood connectivity to existing or proposed trails by workshop participants. New neighborhood park, and improved sidewalks, received 38 stickers each; drainage improvements, and new community center, received 31 stickers each; new public restroom received 28; improvements to existing park, and more street trees received 27 stickers each; new public artwork received 24; new bike lanes, and new parking area received 23; improvements to existing community center, and new cultural program received 22 stickers each; new regional park, and new connection to bayou received 20; new performance space received 19, and new bayou trail received 18. Several participants expressed a desire for more stickers to allocate resources to sidewalk improvements and drainage improvements.

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ALL WORKSHOPS SUMMARY Ranking Resilience votes, and community centers with 36 votes. A second tier of high-priority strategies were selected with over 20 stickers -permeable paving with 28 votes; tree canopy with 27 votes; public transit with 26 votes; bioretention with 22 votes; sidewalks with 21 votes; and green streets with 20 votes. The least favored high-priority strategies include rain harvesting with 18) votes; green roofs with 12 votes; and pavement removal with 10 votes.

The Ranking Resilience activity shared real-world examples for a wide range of community development interventions and improvements that could help a typical Precinct One neighborhood adapt and become more resilient. This activity was modified after the first workshop at the Lincoln Community Center after participants suggested a wider range of options to choose from. Therefore, results between the latter three workshops should not be compared quantitatively with workshop one. Overall, findings in this exercise indicate recreation and social gathering spaces were the most sought after resilience strategy with sustainable design and access strategies following. Participants placed a total of 371 stickers (6 provided to each person) across the four workshops for high, medium, and low priority resilience strategies. 82% of the stickers were dedicated to high-priority items where three rose to the top -- walking trails with 47 votes, bike trails with 39

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ALL WORKSHOPS SUMMARY

Picturing Access

Picturing Safety Low priority: Clean restrooms topped the highest voted category as low priority with 23 votes. Ample seating received 18 votes. Pedestrian and bike access, easy access from neighborhood, wayfinding signage, accessible trails, and accessible amenities received 10 votes each. While additional comments mostly focused on the local parks where the workshops were held, several comments regarding the features that make the participants’ parks easily accessible include the following: • Proximity of the park to home, • Easy connectivity to the park by trails, and • Basic facilities, such as parking, restrooms, trails, etc. When asked what would make the participants’ local parks more accessible that was not mentioned in the poster, the suggestions included: • Additional amenities, such as gym, swimming pool, community garden, shade structures, programming for all ages, etc.

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Medium priority: Well-maintained parks received the highest responses as medium priority with 25 votes. Lighting received 23 votes; active places 15 votes; and safe trail design 13 votes.

Medium priority: Clean restrooms received the highest votes as medium priority with 19 votes, followed by pedestrian and bike access, easy access from neighborhood, and accessible amenities with 14 votes each.

Participants mentioned lighting to be the most important factor that make the park they visit safe, with creative suggestions on making them night sky-friendly and adjustable with daylight savings time. When asked what would make the participants’ local parks safer that was not mentioned in the poster, the suggestions included: • Tree pruning to enhance visibility, • Bollards to prevent vehicles from entering pedestrianized area, • Good maintenance and landscaping to enhance safety, and • Park rangers instead of police for security.

High priority: Lighting received the highest responses as high priority for safety with 34 votes, security received 30, and emergency callbox received 18. Other best practices that received high number votes were visibility and active places, both with 10 votes.

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High priority: Easy access from neighborhood received the highest responses as high priority for access with 22 votes; easy parking received 17; and clean restrooms received 16. Other best practices that received high number of votes were inclusive playground with 12 votes, and accessible trails with 11 votes.

Low priority: Well-maintained parks recorded the highest response category as low priority with 20 votes. Among other highly voted responses, presence of park staff received 18 votes; active places 12 votes; visibility 11 votes; and security 10 votes.

Over the four workshops, participants cast a total of 333 voting dots to categorize their choices of features that enhance safety in parks and on trails into high, medium and low priorities. In all categories of priority, lighting was the highest recorded response category with 64 votes, while security and well-maintained parks received 51 votes each. Active places secured 37 votes. Emergency callbox received 33 votes. Both visibility and safe trail design received 29 votes each. Presence of park staff received 23 votes; wayfinding signage 11, and park information 5.

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Over the four workshops, participants cast a total of 303 voting dots to categorize their choices of features that enhance access to a park into high, medium and low priorities. Across all categories of priority, clean restrooms was the highest recorded response category with 58 votes; while easy access from neighborhood received 46 responses, and pedestrian and bike access 33. Easy parking secured 30 responses. Ample seating, inclusive playground and accessible amenities received 28 responses each. Accessible trails received 27 responses; wayfinding signage 15, and accessible parking 10.

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What We Heard

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ALL WORKSHOPS SUMMARY Programming Parks 48 total responses in the form of posters were received for this activity over the four workshops, and they were creative and insightful. The responses were divided into four categories to better understand the range of programs the participants proposed for their parks: • Culture, some examples are dance, arts and crafts show, TV night, bingo, food festival, etc. • Sports/fitness, i.e. football, aqua bicycling, polo, etc. • Educational/workforce development, i.e. home-buying seminar, horticulture class, sewing class, cooking class, voter education, mentoring, etc. • Community event, i.e. community field day, senior events, Arbor day, Heroes Day, etc.

Most responses were logged into the culture category with 16 posters. 13 responses were secured into community event category, 11 in educational/workforce development category, and 8 in sports/fitness category.

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What We Heard LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY CENTER

6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 17, 2018 Parks for All space received 3 stickers each; new neighborhood park, new bike lanes, new bayou trail, and more street trees received 2 stickers each; and new regional park received 1 sticker. At least one participant suggested adding more speed bumps in their area for traffic calming around the parks.

57 total responses were received for this activity at Lincoln Park Community Center. Neighborhood #2 received the most responses with 18 stickers. Neighborhood#1 received 14 stickers; neighborhood #4 received 14; and neighborhood #3 received 12. Among the categories, trail extension received 7 stickers; new community center received 6; improvements to existing park, improved sidewalks, drainage improvements, improvements to existing community center, new public restroom received 4 stickers each; new connection to bayou, new parking area, new cultural program, new public artwork, and new performance

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Ranking Resilience

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33 stickers were placed for this exercise at Lincoln Park Community Center with 27 categorized as high-priority. Walking trails received 10 total stickers as a high-priority strategy, followed by biking trails and permeable paving with 5 stickers each. Tree-canopy with 4 votes as low-priority was the fourth highest voted strategy and it also carried 1 sticker as a high-priority item. Bioretention and rainwater harvesting with 2 stickers were also selected as high-priority strategy. Participants also recommended better health rules for horses in the area because they bring flies and are not boarded securely, and they expressed concern about uncleanliness of street medians, ditches, and vacant properties.

105 total responses were received for this activity at Lincoln Park Community Center. In all categories of priority, clean restrooms was the highest recorded response category with 18 votes, while pedestrian and bike access received 14 votes. Easy access from neighborhood, ample seating, and inclusive playground received 11 votes each. Easy parking and accessible amenities received 10 votes each; wayfinding signage 8 votes; accessible parking 7 votes, and accessible trails 5.

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What We Heard LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY CENTER

6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 17, 2018 Picturing Safety 94 votes were logged for this activity at Lincoln Park Community Center. In all categories of priority, well-maintained parks received the highest responses with 17 votes. Lighting received 16 votes; security received 15 votes; active places received 12 votes; and emergency call box and visibility received 10 votes each. Among other responses, presence of park staff received 7 votes; wayfinding signage 4; safe trail design 2; and park information 1.

As high priority, lighting received 13 responses; 5 for security; and 4 for emergency callbox. Visibility and well-maintained landscape both followed with 3 votes each. Wayfinding signage and safe trail design received 1 vote each.

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What We Heard LINCOLN PARK COMMUNITY CENTER

6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 17, 2018 Programming Parks Most responses were logged into educational/workforce development category with the 5 posters received at Lincoln Park Community Center. 3 responses were secured for the culture category, 2 for community event category, and none for sports/ fitness category. Several examples of the programs were dance class, home-buying seminar, community garden class, job event, small business expo, etc.

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What We Heard SAN JACINTO COLLEGE NORTH CAMPUS

6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 18, 2018 Parks for All 107 total responses were received for this activity at San Jacinto College-North Campus. Neighborhood #4 received the most responses with 36 stickers. Neighborhood #2 received 30 stickers; neighborhood #1 received 25 stickers; and neighborhood #3 received 16 stickers. Among the categories, improved sidewalks and trail extension received 11 stickers; new neighborhood park received 10; new community center received 8; improvements to existing park, drainage improvements, and new cultural program received 7 stickers each; new public

restroom, and new public artwork received 6 stickers each; new regional park, new bike lanes, new connection to bayou, and improvements to existing community center received 5 stickers each; new bayou trail, and new parking area received 4 stickers each; more street trees, and new performance space received 3 stickers each. Participants also called out safety for kids, especially around schools.

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What We Heard SAN JACINTO COLLEGE NORTH CAMPUS

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105 total stickers were placed for Ranking Resilience at San Jacinto College-North Campus. 86 were for high-priority strategies, where public transit received 15 votes and community centers received 12, as the highest vote tallies above 10. Walking trails with 9 votes and bike trails with 8 votes were ranked as consequential high-priority items, in addition to tree canopy with 7 votes, rainwater harvesting with 7 votes, and bioretention with 7 votes. These numbers reflect the needs of a growing population in northeastern Harris County mostly outside or on the border of METROâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s service area.

66 total responses were received for this activity at San Jacinto College-North Campus. In all categories of priority, clean restrooms was the highest recorded response category with 14 votes, while easy access from neighborhood received 11 votes. Accessible amenities received 10 votes; inclusive playground and ample seating received 7 votes each; accessible trails received 5 votes; easy parking and pedestrian and bike access received 4 votes; accessible parking received 3 votes, and wayfinding signage received 1 vote.

6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 18, 2018

Easy access from neighborhood was the highest tallied response category with 10 responses, followed by 4 responses to easy parking, and 3 responses for inclusive playground and clean restrooms. No additional comments were recorded for this activity.

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6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 18, 2018 Picturing Safety 77 votes were logged for this activity at San Jacinto College-North Campus. In all categories of priority, lighting and security received the highest responses with 17 votes each. Emergency callbox received 9 votes; presence of park staff received 8 votes; well-maintained parks and visibility received 7 votes each; active places received 6 votes; safe trail design received 5 votes; and wayfinding signage received 1. No votes were logged for park information. As high priority, security received 13 responses; 7 for lighting; and 5 for emergency callbox. In additional comments, suggestions to make the participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parks safer included bollards to prevent vehicles entering in pedestrianized areas, mosquito repellents, and public art.

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6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 18, 2018 Programming Parks Most responses were logged into sports/fitness category with 5 posters at San Jacinto College-North Campus. 4 responses were secured for community event category, 2 for culture category, and none for educational/workforce development. Several examples of the programs were youth empowerment event, football, aqua bicycling, animal pageant, community field day, bingo, meet and greet, senior events, TV nights, etc.

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What We Heard ROSS SHAW STERLING AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL

6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 23, 2018 Parks for All new community center received 6 stickers each; new cultural program, and new performance space received 5 stickers each; new bayou trail, new connection to bayou, and improvements to existing community center received 4 stickers each; and new regional park received 3 stickers. Several comments from participants included lighting, security and hours of operation to add in the categories.

117 total responses were received for this activity at Ross Shaw Sterling Aviation High School. Neighborhood #1 received the most responses with 34 stickers. Neighborhood #2 received 30 stickers; neighborhood #4 received 29 stickers; and neighborhood #3 received 24 stickers. Among the categories, new neighborhood park, and trail extension received 11 stickers each; improvements to existing park, more street trees, drainage improvements, and new public restroom received 9 stickers each; improved sidewalks received 8; new parking area, and new public artwork received 7 stickers each; new bike lanes, and

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69 total stickers were placed at this station with 48 dedicated toward high-priority strategies, 17 to medium-priority, and 4 for low-priority. Community centers ranked the highest with 11 votes as a high-priority strategy and 2 votes as a mediumpriority. A second-tier of high-priority strategies follow that include sidewalks with 7 votes, walking trails with 7 votes, public transit with 6 votes, and bike trails with 5 votes. These numbers, oriented toward mobility and access, contrast with the general trend in the overall workshops toward recreation and social gathering spaces.

48 total responses were received for this activity at Ross Shaw Sterling Aviation High School. In all categories of priority, clean restrooms was the highest recorded response category with 10 votes, while easy parking and easy access from neighborhood received 10 votes each. Accessible trails received 7 votes; inclusive playground received 6 votes; ample seating received 5 votes; accessible amenities received 3 votes, and wayfinding signage received 1 vote. Pedestrian and bike access, and accessible parking received 0 votes for this activity.

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As highest priority, easy parking was the highest tallied response category with 6 responses, followed by 4 responses to inclusive playground, and 3 responses for accessible trails. Suggestions to make the participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; local park more accessible that were not mentioned in the poster included: gym and exercise equipments and swimming pool.

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6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 23, 2018 Picturing Safety 57 votes were logged for this activity at Ross Shaw Sterling Aviation High School. In all categories of priority, lighting received the highest responses with 12 votes; well-maintained received 11 votes; emergency callbox, security, and safe trail design received 7 votes each. Among other categories, visibility received 3 votes and 2 for wayfinding signage. No votes were recorded for park information. As high priority, lighting received 6 votes; 5 for emergency callbox and safe trail design each. Security and visibility received 2 votes each. In additional comments, suggestions to make the participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parks safer included animal control and pest control in the park areas.

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6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 23, 2018 Programming Parks Most responses were logged into culture category with 5 posters at Ross Shaw Sterling Aviation High School. 4 responses were secured for educational/workforce development, and both community event, and sports/fitness category received 2 responses each. Several examples of the programs were field day, bingo, sewing class, food truck, arts and crafts show, quilt show, nutrition class, cooking class, line dancing, etc.

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HCC - BRAYS OAKS CAMPUS 6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 26, 2018 Parks for All 176 total responses were received for this activity at HCC-Brays Oaks Campus. Neighborhood #2 received the most responses with 63 stickers. Neighborhood #1 received 50 stickers; neighborhood #4 received 35 stickers; and neighborhood #3 received 28 stickers. Among the categories, trail extension received 17 stickers; new neighborhood park, and improved sidewalks received 15 stickers each; more street trees received 13 stickers, new regional park, drainage improvements, and new community center received 11 stickers each, new bike lanes received 10; new parking area, improvements to existing community center, and new public restroom received 9 stickers each; new bayou trail, new connection to bayou, new public

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This station garnered a total of 164 stickers at the HCC-Brays Oaks Campus workshop, nearly half of the total tally for all four workshops. Participants placed a total of 145 stickers in the high-priority tier, 18 in medium-priority, and 1 in low-priority. Walking trails with 21 votes, bike trails with 21 votes, and tree canopy with 19 votes proved the most popular of the highpriority strategies selected at this workshop, followed closely by permeable paving with 15 votes, sidewalks with 14 votes, community centers with 13 votes, and bioretention with 12 votes. The last tier of high-priority includes green streets with 10 votes, green roofs with 6, rainwater harvesting with 5, public transit with 5, and pavement removal with 4. Participants also raised concerns through post it notes, pertaining to: operation and maintenance costs for permeable paving, need for wider sidewalks, more shading on walking trails, low maintenance public showers/restrooms at trails, and concerns with only concrete trails for people with back, knee, and back issues.

86 total responses were received for this activity at HCC-Brays Oaks Campus. In all categories of priority, clean restrooms and easy access from neighborhood received the highest responses with 16 votes. Pedestrian and bike access received 15 votes. Easy parking, and accessible trails received 10 votes each. Wayfinding signage, ample seating, and accessible amenities received 5 votes each. Inclusive playground received 4 votes. Accessible parking received 0 votes for this activity.

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As highest priority, easy access from neighborhood was the highest tallied response category with 11 responses, followed by 6 responses to pedestrian and bike access, 4 responses for accessible trails, and 3 for easy parking. Suggestions to make the participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; local park more accessible that were not mentioned in the poster included: shade structures, edible gardens, and asphalt running tracks.

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HCC - BRAYS OAKS CAMPUS 6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 26, 2018 Picturing Safety 105 votes were logged for this activity at HCC-Brays Oaks Campus. In all categories of priority, lighting received the highest responses with 64 votes; security and well-maintained received 51 votes each; active places received 37 votes; 33 for emergency callbox; 29 for safe trail design; and 23 for presence of park staff. Among other categories, wayfinding signage received 11 votes and park information received 5. As high priority, lighting received 23 votes; 30 for security and 18 for emergency callbox. Visibility and active places received 10 votes each. In additional comments, suggestions to make the participantsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; parks safer included park rangers involved with community youth and fundraising activities, fencing, voiceactivated park information board and solar lighting.

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HCC - BRAYS OAKS CAMPUS 6:30pm - 8:00pm, April 26, 2018 Programming Parks Most responses were logged into culture category with 6 posters at at HCC-Brays Oaks Campus. 5 responses were secured for community event, 2 for educational/workforce, and 1 for sports/fitness category. Several examples of the programs were Arbor Day Heroes Day, seeding class, music festival, stargazing, voter education, dog contest, etc.

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