How to Ideas for ROW Park

This is a follow up post to ROW Park.

Get the permissions from the Electric company etc, build it in phases while you come up with funding.

The bathroom and picnic areas really only need ONE design and can be built one at a time as money allows.

One public bathroom is better than none. Just start installing that while lining up resources and plans for the scale model of the solar system and other details.

Talk to the libraries or anyone in the city providing free wifi in parks, on buses, etc about providing wifi. 

You need unlocked, weather resistant design for electrical outlets. Make sure you find a design appropriate for local weather conditions and don't lock them up.

I think the park should be open 24/7 and if homeless people being in the park at all hours to charge their phones or whatever becomes a public nuisance, find some other solution. Don't just take it away.

Contact a local university. See if they can get science students and artists to collaborate on the scale model, the moon sculpture etc.

You can research cool educational art pieces. I bet someone could do cool things with the moon phases idea, like mapping where to look in the sky or something. 

You could have a contest for astronomy related educational art pieces to flesh the space out of the listed ideas are not sufficient to fill the space. Maybe make it a local college student thing.

You could also crowd source landscaping ideas for each section. Let university students of the appropriate major work on it and submit ideas as a contest or part of one of their classes, have a paid professional review them for appropriateness of plants chosen and other details.

I would ideally like each section to have different plants to some degree and botanical drawings and information about the pieces so it serves as an educational resource.

You will need some parking. Expect to need bus parking, but try to avoid making this "we paved Paradise and put up a parking lot "

The ROW that inspired the idea has bus stops not far from each end and a park-and-ride at a church near one end. Have someone review available resources and try to plan a minimum amount of parking.

At the same time realize that if it is done properly and serves as both an astronomical and botanical educational resource, you can expect K-12 field trips from every school within an hour or more drive of the park. Plan to have some means to schedule them so you don't have to many school buses show up at the same time.