City of Mountain View, CA City Parks, 17 Nov 2020

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From YouTube: Evandale Park Grand Opening

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Evandale Park opened to the public on Friday, November 13 at 4 p.m. Evandale Park is a 0.25 acre project, located at Evandale Avenue at Piazza Drive, that features space-themed play equipment and green open space. The space theme was requested by the Mountain View community to reflect the park’s proximity to NASA and Moffett Field.

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Good afternoon my name is kimber mccarthy and I'm the city manager for the city of mountain view. Thank you all for joining us in this virtual grand opening and dedication of evandale park. Today we are excited to be able to open the city's newest park. Today. In just two short weeks, we are holding our second park opening virtually due to the covet 19 pandemic.

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We wish we could be together in person and celebrate this moment. However, like so much of what we've done over the past eight months, we pivot and continue to serve our community in the best way possible. I would now like to welcome our mayor margaret abba koga to the.

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Thank you kimbra and good afternoon. Everyone, it's really um an honor and a pleasure to be here and be a part of this virtual grand opening celebration for evandale park. Our second virtual opening in two weeks this year has certainly changed things, but I'm glad that we are able to continue to open new facilities and offerings to our community. So it's a real pleasure to be here.

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First off I'd like to recognize my colleagues on the city, council, council, member chris clark and councilmember allison hicks, I think councilmember hicks and vice mayor were not able to join us today, but we also have councilmember lisa matacek council member john mcallister and councilmember lucas ramirez.

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Normally we would have our parks and recreation commissioners also here at these park openings to celebrate with us, but because of social distancing.

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Unfortunately, we're not able to have them here today, but I still would like to recognize them and thank them for their support of this park and all of our park projects. Our our commissioners are ronate, bryant, russell devine, steve felios, jonathan jonathan herbach and joe mitchner. Thank you again, commissioners, for all of your work and a brief history about this project and how we got here to the grand opening. Today. In november 2018, the city council approved the conceptual plan and name for this new park at evandale avenue and piazza drive subsequently named evandale park.

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This .27 acre property behind me or around me, was dedicated for park use by the developer of the 133 and 149 fairchild row house project. This park's theme was built from the voices of the community during community meetings. There was a strong desire to have the playground and design features, incorporate a space theme due to the park's proximity to moffett field and nasa ames. As such, we were able to select stellar play equipment options to mirror an outer space theme.

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Construction began in september 2019 and over the past year a celestial creation was built that will be used for earthlings today tomorrow and beyond.

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Thank you again for joining us for this virtual celebration, and I also want to take a moment to thank our staff, who worked tirelessly to make this park happen. So, thank you very much to our entire staff and I'll turn it back to kimbra. Thank you.

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Thank you mayor before we hold the ribbon cutting ceremony.

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I would like to recognize the following companies for their great work to make evandale park a reality from design through construction, the design consultant, ssa, landscape architecture, the general contractor ridgewick construction, public works department, don cameron, public works, director, edurango, lisa, ow, ashraf, shah, ray rodriguez, merry chris wong tesnova safi, arlene boomalong, and michael ballard from our community services department, john marchant community services, director tim youngberg, jacob turconic, mike dalton and casey williams, and to pass staff who contributed to this project, including dennis drenin, jp de la montain and mike fuller.

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Thank you all for your hard work in creating this astronomical asset for our community. To conclude our grand opening, I would like to invite city council to join me for the ribbon cutting.

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Thank you. Everyone evandal park is now ready to blast off. Please enjoy this and all park safely and follow posted guidelines.

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