Vernon Hill Park

The City of Worcester is designing a CoolPocket (pocket park) at Vernon Hill Park as part of its climate resilience planning efforts. A CoolPocket is a small park for neighbors and friends to gather, relax, and find respite from urban heat caused by a concentration of buildings, concrete sidewalks, asphalt, and parking lots. It also helps with reducing flooding, and improving air quality, biodiversity, and resilience. CoolPockets are customized to each place and people’s preferences, and we want to use the opportunity to ask you, through this survey, about your preferences for different features you may want to see there! The results of this survey will be used to develop concept plans for your CoolPocket and look for funding to implement the plans. Thank you for your feedback and participation!

For more information visit our project website: https://tinyurl.com/CoolPocket

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For each image below, please rate your preference for different CoolPocket design elements at Vernon Hill Park.

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* 1. Shade Structures

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Shade Structure

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* 2. Large Shade Trees

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A Large Tree

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* 3. Miyawaki Forest

Miyawaki Forests are small, dense, layered urban plantings that grow vigorously and help to cool ‘heat islands’, improve air quality and biodiversity, and foster climate resilience in urban places.

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Seating Areas

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* 4. Seating Areas

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Seating Areas

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* 5. Educational Signage

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Educational Signage

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* 6. Community Garden

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Educational Signage

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* 7. Picnic Area

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Picnic Area

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* 8. Nature Play

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Nature Play

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* 9. Green Infrastructure (Raingarden, etc.)

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Green Infrastructure (Raingarden, etc.)

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* 10. Wet Meadow

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Green Infrastructure (Raingarden, etc.)

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* 11. Permeable Pavement

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Green Infrastructure (Raingarden, etc.)

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* 12. Native Plantings/Pollinator Gardens

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Native Plantings/Pollinator Gardens

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* 13. Flowering/Fruit Trees

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Native Plantings/Pollinator Gardens

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* 14. Water Features

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Water Feature

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* 15. Other? We would love to hear all of your creative ideas for the site!

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* 16. Name

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* 17. Address

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