Trustors discuss updating Pioneer Park signage; staff to coordinate inventory and subcommittee work

Parks operations staff told the Open Space Conservancy Trust on July 17 that the last internal inventory of Pioneer Park signs dates to about 2016 and that many interpretive panels are worn and some smaller yield signs may be hard to see from bikes or horses. Sam Hart presented images of existing kiosk-style maps and cited an effort to document assets in the city’s GIS system.

Trustees discussed simplifying signage, consolidating rules into fewer, more comprehensive panels, and integrating the signage project with an ongoing QR-code and interpretive-signage subcommittee. Hart and staff said they can inventory existing signs in the field and that integrating signage updates with the subcommittee’s work would avoid asking volunteer groups (such as Scouts) to replace worn signs before a final design is chosen.

Trustees asked staff to follow up after the subcommittee meets in early August; staff noted there are about five or six larger kiosks across the park system and several smaller interpretive panels that may be candidates for redesign. No formal action was taken; staff will return with an update on kiosk locations, proposed designs, and an approach to scout or volunteer participation after the subcommittee meeting.