ImagineICT! Effort offers residents chance to reinvent Wichita parks

Residents of the Longwood neighborhood can’t easily traverse Kellogg to get to College Hill Park. They have to cross at either Oliver or Hillside. What could be a 0.3 mile walk ends up taking three times as long.

K-96 divides Chisholm Creek Park in half. Anglers striking out at North Chisholm Creek Fishing Lake have to exit the park, walk along Woodlawn, and then re-enter to try their luck at the South Chisholm Creek Fishing Lake.

Linwood Park is adjacent to Interstate 135. As a result, according to one resident, the park “is ruined by highway noise.” They offered a solution: “there needs to be an earth berm, concrete wall, or hedge row installed to protect the park from noise pollution.”…

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