Meadow Park was constructed almost 40 years ago and serves a multitude of purposes, not only as a destination park for visitors, but also as an important community and neighbourhood amenity.

The park requires reinvestment to provide longterm climate change resilience, respond to evolving and ever increasing resident and visitor demands, improve public safety, and to address aging and failing infrastructure.

Parks visitation has grown rapidly in recent years, with significant increases noted during summer 2020 and 2021. The pressures on our parks require that they are more robust and accommodate a greater number of visits within the same footprint. There were more than 176,000 visits to four destination parks (Lost Lake Park, Rainbow Park, Lakeside Park and Alpha Lake Park) in summer 2021.

While use levels at Meadow Park have not been studied, this project intends to help address capacity issues at other parks by making Meadow Park more attractive to users.