Memorial Park ADA Improvements

Mark Thomas designed improvements for this 4.5-acre park for this beloved Little League park. The park’s unique features include traditional sunken dugouts and a vintage snack bar, which had been remodeled and improved many times over the years but still did not meet critical ADA requirements. Our design made these critical improvements by paving important paths of travel, widening dugout areas, relocating and expanding the bathrooms and snack bar, and providing accessibility to play features.

Additionally, we designed an updated play area, shaded group picnic area, angled-in on-street parking, and a “central spine” for improved vehicle and maintenance access. This project required extensive irrigation retrofit. Through our research phase, we discovered that the park had no irrigation as-builts. As one of our first field tasks, in concert with field maintenance staff, we traced the valve wires, staked important irrigation features in the field, and mapped each item in our field survey. Upgraded irrigation features a new, web-connected controller for remote monitoring, low-flow turf rotors, deep-water tree bubblers, and remote rain and water use sensors.

Mark Thomas provided conceptual design and community engagement through an on-site open house, assisted the City through workshops at Parks Commission and City Council hearings, completed construction drawings, and assisted in on-site construction observation with the City’s resident engineer.