Novi Wants Another Park(photo essy, rough draft)

The city of Novi has had an eye on a semi-large piece of land, where the city would like to build another park. Last year, the city applied for a state grant in order to fund the project but was denied. This year, the city is holding a public meeting in order to increase its chances for the state grant.

This is a picture of the area that the city of Novi is trying to get a hold of, for the construction of the park.

If Novi got the grant, they would use it to build a 269 acre park that would have hiking, and other recreational activities. Novi already has three public parks and numerous recreational facilities that belong to the schools. I do not see what one more park will bring to the city, that the other three parks don't already have. The three parks that belong to Novi offer tons of recreational activities to the public, which is why Novi does not need to build another park. CSP, or Community Sports Park, is the biggest of the three parks in Novi. CSP is located on 8 mile rd. and Napier rd. This is a picture of the picnic area available to the public inside of CSP. It is also the location of one of the many restroom facilities located inside this park. This is a picture of the huge wooden play-sturcture that is right at the entrance of CSP. This playground is always jam packed with kids in the summer. This is a photo of the basketball courts which are found right next to the picnic area, and huge playground. Inside CSP there are nine baseball diamonds, and durring the summer there are always baseball games being played on all nine diamonds. This is another picture of one of the baseball diamonds inside of CSP. CSP also has about 14 soccer fields which are across from the baseball diamonds. Unfortunately they were taken down for the winter, so I could not get a picture of them.

Power Park which is the second park in Novi is a little smaller than CSP, but it still has six baseball diamonds, two volleyball courts, two play-structures, and a trail for walking through the woods. Power Park is located on 10 mile rd., between Novi High School, and the Novi Police Station.

This is a picture of one of the play-structures inside of Power Park. In the background you can see one of the two baseball diamonds which are primarily used for girls' softball games.

This is a picture of the other play-structure. In the foreground you can see the sand that makes up the volleyball courts in the summer.

This is a picture of one of the four baseball diamonds located in the center of the park. These fields are usually home to baseball games, but in the late afternoon they all hold softball games for adults.

This is a picture of the beginning of the trail that goes through the woods. In the foreground is the pond that is located inside of the park, which is nicknamed "piss pond".

Rotary Park is the third park that belongs to Novi, and is located on 9 mile rd. Rotary is a smaller and more quiet park then the other two. This park still has a play-structure, a picnic area, and a couple of tennis courts.

This is a picture of the play-structure located insided of Rotary Park. On the very right side of the picture you can see part of the tennis courts.

This is the picnic area which could easily seat 40 people, if you had a big family outing. The picnic area is conveniently located right next to the play-structure and tennis courts.
Right at the entrance to Rotary Park is this boardwalk, which runs along 9 mile road, and offers a change to the usual concrete sidewalks.

This just a picture of one of the playgrounds that belong to the Novi School District. This is one of two jungle gyms that belongs to this elementary school, and Novi has five elementary schools, not to mention the middle school and high school.

Novi has three parks that offer almost every activity you can think of. They offer baseball diamonds, soccer fields, picnic areas, and trails for people to go walking. There is no need for the city of Novi to construct another park especially one that is 269 acres. If Novi just wants to spend money, then they should work on the upkeep of the three parks that they already have.