City of Morgan Hill Bikeways, Trails, Parks and Recreation Master Plan

INTERACTIVE MAP QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

Results: Parks

Respondents placed “pins” on the questionnaire map to answer questions about parks in Morgan Hill. Using the mapping software ArcGIS, MIG correlated the coordinate points of the pins to park locations (see Map 1 through Map 5). 1 Respondents dropped pins on the map to respond to the following questions: 1. Which parks do you visit regularly? (Respondents could select all regularly visited parks.) 2. Which park do you visit most frequently? (Respondents could select one park.) 3. Which park is your favorite? (Respondents could select one park.) 4. Where is your home? 5. Where do you go to work or school? For these questions, the findings are sorted into quartiles by the number of people who selected a park in response to “Which parks do you visit regularly?” (See Table 1.) The table is sorted from the park most often selected as a regularly visited park, to the park least often selected as a regularly visited park. Note that the top five most regularly visited parks are also the most frequently visited and favorite parks.

1 The mapping methodology associates pins within 600 feet of a City park’s boundary with that park. If the pin was greater than 600 feet from the City park boundary, it was linked to the closest City park, City facility, or County within 600 feet. With these criteria, a number of pins fell outside of the 600 feet boundary. For the questions “Which parks do you visit regularly?,” “Which park do you visit most frequently?,” and “Which park is your favorite?” 118, 26, and 23 pins were removed from the data set. While these points are not included in this analysis, they are relevant in that they suggest that Morgan Hill residents travel to and use parks outside of City and nearby County facilities.

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