Appendix 3: OCP Children and Youth Comments

Appendix 3: OCP Children and Youth Comments

OCP Youth Input as it relates to View Royal Park

The Town Of View is currently undergoing a review of their Official Community Plan (OCP). As part of that review, Town staff and members of the CitySpaces Consulting team held workshops with Grade seven and eight students from Shoreline Community School in October and November 2009. The purpose was to elicit ideas from View Royal's youth on how to improve the Town of View Royal and to create a more youth-friendly community. From those sessions a list was produced from the items brought forward by the students. It is felt that the ideas expressed in the area of Recreation and Entertainment would be relevant to the development of the Masterplan for View Royal Park.

The following is a list of ideas generated by the students specifically in the area of Parks and Recreation. *indicates most prevalent items discussed with the students

• Plan parks for big kids (teens) not just little kids
• Create a View Royal Recreation Centre and activity centre for teens (teen centre)*
• Create a new baseball field(s) and/ or baseball park
• Support for a zoo
• Provide more public parks and trails
• Provide more mountain biking trails and facilities
• Provide more nature trails and horseback riding trails
• Build a public swimming pool and skate park so youth don’t have to commute out of View Royal for these activities*
• Address geese-green space issue. Geese are a problem for play fields and play areas*
• Support for more amusement centres like water slides, laser tag, video arcades, paint ball, bowling alleys, bungee jumping, go-carts, mini golf and a ‘Play Zone’
• Create a water park in View Royal Park*
• Improve water access, and create more public shoreline areas and water recreation areas
• Create a BMX track(s) with jumps*
• Design more skateboard and bike friendly spaces for youth
• Plan for local carnivals and fairs
• Provide more areas for dog walking
• Retain Thetis Lake Park especially swimming areas and bike trails
• Retain View Royal Park
• Support development for a local movie theatre