Provo Spring Creek residents to city: We want a park

PROVO (Daily Herald) -- Residents of a south Provo neighborhood filled the Municipal Council chambers last week to ask for a park.

It doesn't need to be big or fancy, Spring Creek residents said. They just need a small park on the south side of State Street, close to their homes, where families can gather and children can play.

"Please purchase land for this purpose while there is still land to be had," Whitney James asked the council.

James and the other residents who were there in support primarily live in condominium and townhouse complexes between 900 South and 1140 South and about 900 East to State Street. It is a dense, fairly transient area with many young student families. The closest large park is Bicentennial Park, north of State Street and more than a mile away.

"Lots of little kids and lots of moms but not a lot of grassy area for them to play," James said in an interview with the Daily Herald Tuesday. "We're not talking Pioneer Park, we just need like, some grass."

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