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

INTERACTIVE MAP QUESTIONNAIRE RESULTS

FINDINGS Respondents Live and Work

• The respondents were asked to indicate where they live and work/go to school. Responses show that participants were fairly evenly distributed throughout the City.

Most Regularly and Frequently Used and Favorite Parks •

There is significant overlap in responses to the questions of what are your regularly used parks, what is your most frequently used park and what is your favorite park, with Community Park, Paradise Park, Anderson Lake, Coyote Lake-Harvey Bear Ranch, Diana Park, Nordstrom Park and Coyote Creek Parkway-South being selected the most frequently. This overlap in the parks selected for regularly visited, frequently visited, and favorite parks suggests these parks offer valued programs and experiences. respondents’ home or school, although there is some overlap. The top five parks closest to respondents’ homes are Galvan Park, Jackson Park, Anderson Lake, Community Park, and Conte Gardens Park. • The disparity between the top five favorite and most frequently visited parks and the top five parks closest to home indicates the most respondents are best served by parks outside of their neighborhoods. This trend is likely influenced by the high quality and wide variety of amenities offered at Community Park. Also, Diana and Paradise Parks, which are Neighborhood Parks, are drawing users from throughout the city. This is especially true of Diana Park, which is attracting residents from the east and west parts of the City as, well as residents in the north. • Galvan Park is the closest park to home for the largest number of respondents, yet it is not among the top five favorite, most frequently visited or favorite parks. • Responses to most frequently used parks are slightly more dispersed than responses to favorite parks. More people indicated that their most frequently used park is a County park. This is likely because the people are going to their most frequently visited parks to exercise and the County parks offer extensive trail systems. • The diversity of County parks represented in the responses highlights the prominent role of County facilities in Morgan Hill’s trails, parks and recreation system. • The most popular parks (listed above) did not all rank high as the parks closest to

Mode of Transportation •

Respondents were asked to indicate how they get to each of the parks they marked on the map as regularly visited, most frequently visited and favorite parks. More participants

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