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Park Development Projects
Parks, Recreation & Culture strives to provide residents with parks, trails and other recreation facilities that are:
- thoughtfully designed
- well maintained
- meet the needs of our community
- Blaney Hamlet Park
- South West Haney Park
- Merkley Park Synthetic Field
- Thomas Haney/Telosky Stadium
- Arthur Peake/Golden Ears
- Lions Park
Concept Development
Parks, Recreation & Culture staff held a public open house on May 11 to gather neighbourhood input on this proposed park in Blaney Hamlet. Thanks to everyone who participated. A comment form was also available online for two weeks. Approximately 25 comment forms were received at the open house with 65 additional comment forms being received through the online form for a total of 90 responses.
Top amenities that were desired included a playground, picnicking, sports court, walking trails, grassed areas and small water play area. We are currently working on formulating a concept plan to share with the community in response to the many comments received.
Open House:
A community open house was held on May 11, 2017. Have a look at the Open House Boards. The comment period has now ended, please check back for updates as we tabulate the responses and develop a park concept plan.
East of 230A St. at 137 Ave, Maple Ridge.
Park Location Map
Planning for a new neighbourhood park in the south west Haney area is underway. This 0.33 ha (0.81 acres) site is envisioned to become a physical and social-focused amenity in the neighbourhood.
Park Location:
11683 223 Street
Park Location Map
Open House:
A community open house was held on May 4, 2017. Have a look at the Open House Boards. The comment period has now ended, please check back for updates as we tabulate the responses and develop a park concept plan.
Parks, Recreation & Culture,
11995 Haney Place,
Maple Ridge, BC V2X 6A9
Construction Progress
Construction has now started and will continue through the fall.
Karina LeBlanc Field Groundbreaking
On Monday, August 14, a groundbreaking event was held with representatives of the Government of Canada, City of Maple Ridge and School District No. 42 for this new synthetic field. This field is being named for former Maple Ridge Secondary alumni, Olympic Bronze Medalist and UNICEF ambassador Karina LeBlanc.
Design Development
Detailed design and project tendering was completed through Summer.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the open house.
Open House:
The Maple Ridge Parks, Recreation & Culture department hosted an open house on June 8 to present the proposed Merkley Park Synthetic Field concept plans. You can also view the Presentation Boards that were discussed at the open house. Check back for future project updates throughout the summer as construction progresses.
Date: Thursday, June 8, 2017
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:30 pm (Drop-in)
Location: Maple Ridge Secondary School - Library
21911 122 Ave, Maple Ridge
Project Location:
22008 124 Ave
Project Location Map
Planning for a new synthetic turf field complex is in the early stages. This phased project will include conversions of two existing softball diamonds to a synthetic surface with practice areas and field lines to support fall and winter sports. The project will also include a fieldhouse event space and lighting for diamonds #3 and #4.
This project will form part of a sports hub with the proposed Arthur Peake Centre / Golden Ears Elementary field across the street.
See the concept plan for more information.
Open House:
The Maple Ridge Parks, Recreation & Culture department hosted an open house to gather public input into the synthetic field concept plans for both the Arthur Peake/ Golden Ears Elementary project as well as the Telosky/ Thomas Haney Secondary Project. You can review the presentation boards here. As a part of our community consultation process, we would like to invite your feedback. Please fill out this comment form by August 16, 2017.
Comment Form:
As a part of our community consultation process, we would like to invite your feedback. Please fill out this comment form by August 16, 2017.Conceptual planning has started for a new synthetic turf field at the shared site of Golden Ears Elementary and Arthur Peake Centre. Plans include expanded parking off of 116 Ave and a full size, lit synthetic turf field.
This field will form part of a sports hub with the proposed Thomas Haney/ Telosky Stadium synthetic fields across the street.
See the concept plan for more information.
Open House:
The Maple Ridge Parks, Recreation & Culture department hosted an open house to gather public input into the synthetic field concept plans for both the Arthur Peake/ Golden Ears Elementary project as well as the Telosky/ Thomas Haney Secondary Project. You can review the presentation boards here. As a part of our community consultation process, we would like to invite your feedback. Please fill out this comment form by August 16, 2017.
Comment Form:
As part of our community consultation process we would like to invite your feedback. Please fill out this comment form by August 16, 2017.
Design Development
Detailed design and project tendering will be completed over the next few months with construction anticipated to start in Spring 2018.
Thank you to everyone who participated in the open house.
Open House
Maple Ridge Parks, Recreation & Culture hosted a drop in open house to present the concept plan for a renovation to the sports court at Lions Park.
You can also view the presentation boards from the open house.
Date: September 7, 2017
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00pm (drop in)
Location: Lions Park Sport Court, Laity St and 121 Ave
Initial neighbourhood consultation was done in 2015. Input garnered from the previous consultation was used to develop the concept plan.