North Buckhead Playgrounds Committee

Note: also see our Parks page

Contacts:

Mandy LeCompte, mandy.lecompte@mindspring.com, 404-846-0119

Upcoming Playgrounds Committee meetings:

Date tbd
Wieuca Road Baptist Church, Room S-103
Meeting site map at www.nbca.org/wrbc

Playground Committee Flyer

Our Kids Need a Great Place to Play in North Buckhead!

A Playground Committee has been set up within the North Buckhead Civic Association. Our aim is to establish a suitable playground or playgrounds within our community.

The committee was formed due to the sad fact that there is not one public or private playground in North Buckhead established primarily for our families.

The steps we have undertaken are as follows:

	Locate suitable sites for playgrounds;
	If on public land, work in partnership with the City of Atlanta to build and maintain the playground;
	If on private land, work with the neighborhood building and maintaining the playground;
	In all cases there will be help needed from within the community for both fundraising and playground design.

At the moment, while continuing to review a number of other sites, we are focusing our efforts on lobbying the City of Atlanta to include a playground within the grounds of the park to be established off Peachtree Dunwoody Road (maps below).

Map of larger area surrounding park site
Topographical map of park site including 75’non-development buffer around creeks (blue lines)

Printable Playground Committee Flyer shown above - 516KB PDF
Large (24" x 36") printable Survey of the New Park - 339KB PDF
Printable Topographic Map (larger version of above) - 523KB PDF

Playground Subcommittees

The following is an initial list of Playground Subcommittees: Please contact us if you would like to head or assist with of one of these:

	Site Selection/Site Title Investigation
	City of Atlanta liaison
	Fundraising/Finance
	Legal Issues/501 (c) (3), etc.
	Playground Equipment/Layout Logistics
	Neighborhood Parks Liaison
	Corporate Neighbor Liaison

KaBOOM!

Visit the KaBOOM! website at www.kaboom.org to gather research and resources about playgrounds.

"KaBOOM!, a national non-profit that envisions a great place to play within walking distance of every child in America, believes that play counts too.

Painted hands

Play is how kids learn to run, jump and swing. But they also learn how to negotiate, imagine and respect one another; how to think and plan without an adult telling them what to do. Kids build character as well as muscle through play. It is an essential part of their development and it is an old fashion solution to many of the modern day epidemics facing our children including obesity, anxiety, poor academic achievement and anti-social behavior.

Play also builds community. Cities and towns that fund, build, maintain and insure an abundance of time and space for play are healthier. A playground down the street becomes the gathering place for all generations and increases property values in the neighborhood. A community that demonstrates their belief in children and young families attracts new business and residents. Ultimately, a playful city is a healthy, happy, more productive city." - quoted from KaBOOM!'s website

New Playgrounds Committee

By Mandy LeCompte
NBCA Playgrounds Committee Secretary
From the July 2007 North Buckhead Newsletter

Would you like to be able to walk to the park with your kids? Are you looking for another selling point when listing your house? There’s hope on the horizon. In June, North Buckhead neighbors formed a new Playgrounds Committee to address one of our neighborhood’s significant deficiencies — there are no public playgrounds in North Buckhead. With the exception of the playground at Chastain Park, all existing city playgrounds are located south of our large neighborhood. To put it another way, the entire northern part of Atlanta has PDS (playground deficiency syndrome) — see the amazing map below:

Click here for printable PDF version.

If you want to work towards getting neighborhood playgrounds, please join our committee. Contact Zeb Bradford, zebbrad@bellsouth.net, 404-266-0988; or Mandy LeCompte, 404-386-6839 and mandy.lecompte@mindspring.com, to sign up for the committee or to share your thoughts or concerns regarding establishment of a North Buckhead playground.

Survey results now available (11/15/07)

Park survey results - see our Parks page