Playground experts emphasize accessibility, nature-based play at Tiburon parks forum

Experts urged Tiburon to prioritize accessibility and nature-based designs in playground renovations during a May 12 forum hosted by the town’s parks board.

About 15 people attended the forum, held at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library and via Zoom. It featured play researchers, an accessibility advocate, playground-equipment representatives and community members who have had success introducing recreation facilities. The event was part of ongoing efforts by the Tiburon Parks, Open Space and Trails Commission to gather community feedback as the town works to implement its parks master plan, a long-term guide for the use of its 56 acres of parks and 316 acres of open space.

“As a community, we have a lot of data, we need to start moving things forward and setting up timelines and deliverables to meet the community’s desires,” commission Chair Chuck Hornbrook said after the meeting. “That said, we will have additional community engagement before people begin to disappear in the summer, where needed, to move improvements forward.”

The Tiburon Town Council at its March 20 meeting indicated it wants to upgrade the playground at Cypress Hollow Park and is examining the feasibility of a play structure at Zelinsky Park, behind the library and Town Hall, while seeking feedback for larger-scale improvements across the Richardson Bay Lineal Park system.

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