Community meeting scheduled on Carroll Knolls Local Park renovations

A community meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 regarding the proposed renovation of Carroll Knolls Local Park in Silver Spring. The meeting will be held at the Capital View-Homewood Local Park Activity Building, located at 2929 Edgewood Road in Kensington from 7:00-9:00 PM.

There will be a presentation at the beginning of the meeting, and then an open discussion to get feedback from the community on the proposals presented. Carroll Knolls Local Park is located at 10500 Georgia Avenue.

Given that the park only opened four years ago, you might ask why it is already being renovated. What's happening is that Montgomery Parks is attempting to develop a long-range plan for additions to the park, when additional adjacent property is added to it via donation and acquisition of road right-of-ways. Potential additions to the park may include play equipment, a youth-sized rectangular sports field, sitting and picnic areas, community open space, wooded areas, natural surface trails, courts, and additional parking.  This is an excellent chance to weigh in on what you'd like to have added to your neighborhood park.

CARROLL KNOLLS LOCAL PARK TO OPEN THIS SATURDAY IN SILVER SPRING

Silver Spring's newest park, Carroll Knolls Local Park, will open this Saturday morning, April 26, at 10:45 A.M. The park is located at 10500 Georgia Avenue, near Evans Parkway, and features wooded areas, a meadow and picnic benches. Later a natural surface trail will be added.

Here is the schedule for tomorrow morning:

10:45 Arrival and light refreshments

11:00 Speaking Program
Mary Bradford, Director of Montgomery County Parks Department
Beverly Sobol, Green Space on Georgia President

11:20 Ribbon Cutting Ceremony

11:30 Family friendly activities including:
Naturalist demonstrations with live animals
Children’s games and relay races
Meet Montgomery Parks Tree Stewards, Scavenger hunt to identify different types of trees, Make a tree cookie necklace