Boston City TV, MA City of Boston Parks Department, 22 Aug 2023

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From YouTube: Walnut Park Ribbon Cutting

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Mayor Wu joins Parks and Recreation Commissioner Ryan Woods and Roxbury residents to celebrate the opening of Walnut Park. This ribbon cutting marks the latest in a series of park openings in the city of Boston this summer.

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Welcome to Walnut Park play area, my name is Ryan. Woods I have the pleasure of serving as the parks commissioner for the city of Boston, overseeing our 332 Parks throughout the city, as well as our cemeteries.

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Our golf courses and our Animal Control shelter, and we are so excited to be here on what maybe a dreary day but to cheer everybody up at a new, universally accessible play area here in the city of Boston and, more importantly, in Roxbury, one that kids of all abilities, so these Play features are kids of all abilities, can engage and play hand in hand together.

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This was part of the mayor's 1.2 million dollar renovation from her capital budget, and it would not have happened without a team that worked hand in hand on this. So I want to thank from the parks department, our project manager, Amy lynnae, who has worked on this project to get it through the finish line, our design team, Megan lizza here from CBA uh Landscape Architects. Thank you for the design work on this, as well as Mountain View Landscapes, who helped uh construct this park.

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This was designed in with Crawford Street play area right down the road which is now under construction. We tried to delay it a little, so we wouldn't have both play areas off at the um same time.

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So this has our new water, Play Station, shade Pavilion painted concrete 11 new trees, which is, let's give a round of applause, 11 new trees, it's very big for us, adding trees wherever we can throughout the city, and that is a theme that we heard from the community. So you can see the shade structures over the picnic. Grove water bottle, filling stations, a plate, water play area, all cooling elements, especially in this hot temperatures. With climate change.

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We are so lucky in the city of Boston to have a champion leading us, someone that is in the Parks every day, with her kids, whether it's playing sports or checking out water features, playground, slides, Etc, it's my pleasure to introduce the mayor of the city of Boston mayor, Michelle Wu. Thank you.

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Hi everyone thanks for coming out, and um we really are just so grateful to be in a beautiful new space in the city. Thank you to commissioner woods and his entire team for all the work that they're doing as you can see. We are not going to just rest on our uh Laurels and and kind of be satisfied with how things have been.

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We want to make sure that, as the Summers get hotter, as kids need spaces to play that we're giving them the very best and the installation of all the new features, the water features shade and making sure people can use this even on hot hot days as we're experiencing, is really really important, and so thank you to all the young people from the Shelburne and from all the neighborhood who are here and who will tell us what works best in the park and and what we need to keep improving.

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We want to make sure that every space in the city you feel like you, have what you need. You have what you want and we want to keep making improvements like this everywhere. I see members of of the Garrison Trotter neighborhood association who've, been with us all day, announcing different things in the neighborhood. So thank you to everyone, who's, a leader in this area and and fighting for and advocating for what our communities need. We have members of our neighborhood trauma team, who are here as well, who do great work 24 hours a day.

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Thank you for your service and we are better together and then we're also joined here today by some of our recruits. Thank you so much to our Boston police, our incoming soon to be new officers who will help make sure that our community members are as connected as possible to Public Safety as well.

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um I am so ready for school to start back up again, it's.

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Long summer, with with two boys- and we have been to just about every Park in the city, as we see again, the the need over the summer for play spaces for water features, it's been really exciting to have a parks department that is so focused on pushing for new Investments and stepping up to give our young people and their families exactly what they deserve. So thank you to everyone.

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Who's been involved in the renovation and and building of this park, it's going to be another beloved space and we look forward to coming back for lots and lots of special events. Do you understand? Okay, so um Emma said she would say something: I I learned I heard I learned a little bit about the the spinny climbing thing that I'm gonna have to try out, there's also a spinny bucket thing over there. That's really cool but um Emma is going, is just newly started.

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The second grade lives in the area and um will tell us a little bit about this park.

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I like this park, because um it's really fun to play with um to to be at after school and yeah I, like it.

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Thank you Emma great, um any questions, good. We can do off topic separately if.

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Okay, well, does anyone want to offer some thoughts on that? The question from Charmin was: what does this mean for the neighborhood to have this here versus what it was like before? Anyone want to say anything on it.

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Maybe Miss, Harris or Diane.

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This hair is come on up she's bashful. She says Miss Harris,.

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Or Mike, do you want to offer any thoughts? Okay, well, I will just say um every project at the park uh that our parks department does is really built on the feedback that comes through the process of hearing what people need, and so we always hope to deliver something that is fun and beautiful and exciting. But it it only works if it really reflects what people had said along the way that they wanted in in each individual part of the city.

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So the the addition of more shade the water feature and some of the um the updated materials we hope is going to be a place that will continue drawing families and and particularly kids for a long time to come, and there are so many exciting things happening in the area: lots of schools in the area, lots of Investments that we're making in streets and and other parts of community facilities, and so this is one part of it.

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What about a problem with the parkings around here? You need more of it or is it we need residential parking, I, see more handicap parking, speed bumps, maybe flying through the they fly through here, 40 50 miles an hour. We need a light in the park at night because it's so dark in here. You know a lot.

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Of stuff good, we'll keep it coming, we were talking earlier this morning. We had an event at the Trotter School and we talked about how the traffic kind of flies down the the roads in the whole area. So we know we need to make sure that um we're slowing down traffic everywhere and thinking about it again as a whole neighborhood and not just one street at a time but parking, let's figure out on on Resident parking. What would work? Thank you. Thank you anything else. Okay, let's cut the ribbon.

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Should we count from five who knows how to count backwards from five anybody? Okay, good.