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13. Please tell us how important it is to add or provide the following
OUTDOOR park activities or amenities for you and your family or the
community overall: Skipped: 209
46.5%
Multi-purpose walking
and biking trail s
32.5%
21.0%
28.8%
Community gardens
34.9%
26.1%
Pickleball courts
8.9%
Additional/improve d
hard courts
36.2%
36.4%
30.0%
21.5%
16.4%
5.1%
47.0%
14. For those Lake Forest parks you do not visit, please explain why. (Pick all
that apply) Skipped: 297
31.2%
Too busy
30.6%
27.8%
67.1%
20.5%
Not interested
54.9%
15.8%
49.6%
Not applicable
26.2%
11.5%
63.8%
6.8%
19.0%
Very importan t
38.6%
69.0%
13.9%
10.0%
41.8%
Inconvenient location
50.0%
26.0%
19.8%
Disc golf course
Once again, a group of respondents did not support adding outdoor amenities.
4 respondents prefer to maintain or reduce Department spending and 3
respondents feel the Department should maintain what is already available
instead.
Use other agencies '
parks or facilities (i.e. Open
Lands, Forest Preserve
District, Private Clubs, Other
townships, etc.)
47.2%
56.0%
16.4%
9.5%
66.9%
39.3%
16.6%
Amphitheater/gazebo
Volleyball court s
39.0%
24.2% 35.3%
Running track s
Bike/skate park
90.5%
38.7%
32.5%
capacity. The remaining comments were only mentioned once. These include
adding basketball, building a gazebo downtown and at Forest Park Beach,
unspecified golf course improvements, making parks pet-friendly, adding a dog
park or beach, adding a skate park, adding a lacrosse field, and improving the
baseball diamonds.
74.2%
Somewhat
important
Parks need maintenance
or improvement s
6.6%
Not
important
Constructing an outdoor pool received the most comments with 9 respondents
requesting either a pool or waterpark. 2 respondents also requested adding
a splash pad. Synthetic turf fields were also mentioned in 5 comments and 4
comments called for improved drainage on sports fields. Sports lighting, both
at the tennis courts and at any synthetic turf fields was mentioned. 2 comments
each were received for adding refrigeration at West Park and improving the
volleyball courts. Finally, multiple suggestions were made to improve boating
at Forest Park Beach including upgrading the boats and adding storage and
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