SUMMATION OF ANSWERS TO OPEN-ENDED QUESTIONS

590 Responses

Bmx and skating park

Skateboard park

Miller Skate Park is outdated and run down the whole skatepark

Skate park

Utica Park, This park needs updated with newer equipment & better signage.

Skate park

Splash pad and senior shuffle board games

Rising Park. The roadway is in bad shape, the trail/ hillside is eroding, the flowerbeds are neglected & Tennis Courts need power washed.

Miller skate park, it has become a well known drug spot and not many parents want their children/teens going there do to this issue. In the early 2000’s when my brother and I would go, it was a great place to hang out and skate/ BMX. Now it’s just a drug dealer/gang area.

Rising park and Connections West for safety of playgrounds

Our community is in need of better baseball diamonds. We travel to neighboring communities all over central Ohio and Lancaster is really behind everywhere else.

Rising park security

Miller pool

More security presence at Rising Park. Patrolling Ranger

Current skate park is in dissaray. Screws sticking out, warped structures.

Trash cans on Heritage trail by OhioUni, LHS could have students clean up all of the trash on their property polluting the trail and creek

Cenci Lake in a rough area. More monitoring needed. I’ve been there when an atv is all over as well as motorized boat toys in use at high speeds.

We love rising but the trash and graffiti accumulation is ruining it Park on West Side!!

Maher Park

Rising Park shelter house and restroom facitlities, probably restrooms at all parks

Skate Park

Skate park

Rising park. Too many fast driving people

Tiki and Miller pool, soccer fields

Miller Park

Upgrade basketball courts, tennis and pickleball courts, expand adapted play areas at all parks, improved restroom facilities...

Cenci, rising, maher, olivedale walking trailer area and the walking trail in general are not safe.

Miller skate park

Cedarlen, Maher

Rising Park street surfaces, entrance into lot by playground

Maher park tennis/pickle ball courts

Pickleball courts

Miller park and pool

Miller Skatepark.

Connexion West

Give money back to taxpayers

Every park should have real �� with running water

Skate park

Fence around Hunter Park to keep chdren from running off into traffic.

Bathrooms at Alley Park

Elwood park---- Very run down. Would be a nice neighborhood park if was better taken care of and updated.

Miller Park skate park

Skate park

Maher Park tennis/ pickleball courts are in bad condition

Maher park pickleball court for this summer since new courts not built yet

Miller Skate Park

Skatepark , there is a petition currently for it as well. I walk my dogs over there in the evening when it’s empty and the screws are popping out. Rusted. Wood is bowed and it needs alot of love or rebuilt.

Repaving near the dog park near the sheriff’s office.

Miller skate park

Mahler Park

Pickleball courts

Maher Park

Mahet

Pickleball courts

Maher Park tennis/ pickleball courts

Maher Park, Miller Park

Skate park

Skate park by Miller pool

Hocking Park

Cenci park

Skate park

I saw a post about the skate park. Pretty disappointed for the kids who use it

Lancaster parks do a great job. I’m always happy when I visit.

Skate park

Skate park

Bike Trail Patrol for safety

Rising Park playground surface is hard for little ones to navigate with steep hills and big drop offs by the swings

Maher Park courts

Skateboard park by Miller Pool

The soccer complex on Main Street is in dire need of improvements. Parking, driveways and ingress/egress are all a mess. The fields are generally wellmaintained, but could be improved. Lancaster is very far behind compared to other central Ohio areas. Soccer is the most popular youth sport in America. Let’s get up to speed before investing in trendy activities.

More handicap parking at Olivedale. Seniors have trouble walking up the hill on the driveway.

Current bike trail

Skate park

Sidewalks at Firehouse Park

Skate park

Skate park and a larger city pool!

Utica Park - needs parking, bridge and connecting park need TLC/replacing, playground equipment needs updating, ball diamond needs renovation

Skate park

The parking at the soccer fields and Cenci Park

Cinci park, actuall bathrooms at parks

The pickle ball courts at Mayor Park.

Maher Park Tennis Courts

Rising bathroom by playground.

If the fence between the playground and the roadway were more solid and longer, I would be less worried about my kids running towards the road, laughing while I run to stop them.

River Valley Highlands and the undeveloped parkland on Ety Road that for some reason is being used as someone’s farm land.

Not immediate but i think most could use some work

Cinci park

Bike path bridge near 188 is too narrow

Bicycle trails

Bridge Martens Park off Cedar Hill Rd. More Shade and tables Huffer Durden

Hocking Park / Cedarlen Park skate park

Alley Park , fallen trees over trails for months without being cleared.

Alley Park- The trails and park as a whole are not well maintained. It is a popular park for events and people to visit. It deserves much more attention. There are trees over trails that aren’t removed for months. na

Rising Park needs DREDGED, the skate park needs maintenance

Wyandotte park tennis courts, Cedarlen Park tennis move the Port-O-Pot at Cedar Lynn Park Please

Utica Park

Community children’s play equipment IN water area or surrounded by a splash pad

Skate park. We do not currently use it but I did when I was younger. And I expect my children will use it in the future. It is a great place for kids to go and be active if they don’t play organized sports. It’s been open for 20 years and I know it needs some updates and repairs.

The heat needs to be replaced in the Lancaster Building. It is a great event building for spring and fall, but it needs heat and air for the other seasons.

Cenci Lake, Firehouse Park

Alley park, Rising park

Lanreco Park needs a picnic shelter. Lots of people use this park and there is no shade.

Mayer Park tennis courts

Maher park

Skate Park

Upgrade of the Firehouse playground - especially a new net for the basketball hoop, Improvements to the Dog Park including signage, Repairs to the Bike Path bathrooms at Maher park

Our bike path is a local benefit, and grateful for the access. However, it is showing its age and needs a re-coating, crack-fill -in. Also, where it crosses the creek/rivers we need 18” walls to keep back season over-flow. Could be timbers or rocks, and not a major wall build, but 18” would keep 90% of silt off path. And, consider a few safety retainment methods on the bike bridges.

Our pools are in need of upgrades.

The rail fences at Rising Park need to be repaired.

You need to monitor Mt. Pleasant more closely.

As stated before teens flock there at sundown during summer months. It is dangerous and there are also people who have made it their home up there.

Cenci park is dirty and unsafe. There are many people doing doing drugs around the lake. I feel unsafe taking my kids or dogs here.

Rising Park tennis courts, Mayer Park tennis courts

Hocking park equipment.

Playground

Rising Park

Bike trail needs better upkeep, asphalt repair; parking lot at Martens Park on Cedar Hill needs repair of deep holes at the entrance.

Maher Park

Repaying the bike path in certain areas, due to roots and crackers in the path.

Maintenance of portions of the biking/hiking trail

Roads in Rising Park

Miller a modern clean flush toilet at Alley Park near the parking lot

Park plot in River Valley Highlands needs immediate development.

It is unacceptable that the largest development in Lancaster has no park nearby for residents.

Lancaster Bike Trail: it is dirty (human feces and trash) and i dont feel safe using the trail

Rising park more enclosed shelter houses

Maher Park- tennis and Pickleball courts.

Skate park needs attention

Miller pool Bike path, litter and graffiti

This isn’t a concern but a congratulations: the arboretum at Rising Park is absolutely wonderful. The 100 trees idea was innovative and visionary. A true legacy. I took out of state family to see “ our” tree and they loved the idea.

Miller Park skate park

Fences along Mt. Pleasant trail to prevent hikers from cutting the trail and damaging the environment. Erosion is getting very bad in some areas.

Fences along Mt. Pleasant trail to stop erosion.

Soccer fields need more space, better parking, better bathroom facilities

Maher Park courts

If the tennis court/play area on Walnut Street is part of the system, it needs maintenance roof of Alley Park lodge leaked a few weeks ago

Rising Park - roads!

Dog park needs water before summer

Bike path is awful. No one patrols it homeless every where

Rising Park a sidewalk on the mountain side by the tennis courts; pedestrians share the roadway with vehicles

Mount Pleasant as noted above.

Rising Park and Martens Park

Soccer complexfertilizer, aeration, rolled

Miller park

Bike path, clearing invasive plants, filling in holes in fields, treating swamp area by sycamore in Huffer Durdin, and preventing creek erosion along bike path, and in parks

Bathrooms at the pools

Risings parking lot

The skater park. Is currently in bad shape and in need of update to be safe for kids

Soccer complex parking sucks, roads around are horrible, only sports complex with out a shelter house snack area, could use real restrooms so that parents don’t have to check for drugs, needles or homeless before kids using. Please create ways to separate smokers from non-smokers so everyone can enjoy events. Bandstand is a wonderful event but the smoking makes it inaccessible for those who do not want to inhale second hand smoke.

Would love to have a shelter house at huffer park with picnic tables. Soccer and the rising park buildings

Baseball - Miller park

Exercise stations along paths.

The skate park!!

Miller Park

Trail behind mall needs to be kept in better shape and safer

Rising park. Clean restrooms, shade for slides and swings (they get too hot during the day) maintain mountain (improve steps, rails) enforce laws on Mountain (stay on trails, vandalizing) get rid of that ugly yellow metal decor in front of rising park the old west school playground. dangerous. drug needles everywhere. Bathrooms need to be accessible

Hocking Park

Skate park

The soccer complex’s road around it.

Update and or improve Miller Pool

Rising Park big shelter house parking lot

Pickleball courts

Restroom in all the city parks

Miller pool, that entire area could be turned into a small community water park that would attract people from many counties

Huffer Durdin needs more options for play.

Pools, they need replaced.

Olivedale needs some new card tables. Some of the ones they now have do not lock securely. Some people use the table to get up (even though we tell them not to) and could seriously hurt themselves with a fall.

Na Martens Park.

Trails at Alley Park

MIller Park and Skate Park

Bike path surface, security and usage enforcement.

All tennis courts (except Rising Park).

Elmwood Park area.

Elmwood Park on Walnut Street desperately needs new playground equipment. Nothing has been updated in this park for at least the last 10 years. We have many kids in our neighborhood who would benefit from some nicer equipment

Need More Restrooms For Downtown Events And Taken Better Cleaned

Utica park

All the ones littered with homeless

Security at rising park

Roads at Rising Park

Lanreco park could use a full size playground along with some more lighting

Rising park

Resurfaced road in Rising Park

I haven’t been able to go to some city parks because of the homeless people.