People are welcome to share their viewpoints on a pair of potentially new City of Milton properties at a “special-called” Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meeting on Monday night.

The June 24 meeting will begin at 6 p.m. in City Hall’s Council Chambers. Anyone can attend in person or watch online at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMwAEvAhRIo.

The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board consists of seven individuals, appointed by Milton’s Mayor and Councilmembers, who share their perspectives, expertise, and insights on matters related to City parks and recreational programs. You can learn more about this committee, which is often referred to as PRAB, by clicking HERE: https://www.miltonga.gov/government/boards-committees/parks-and-recreation-advisory-board/.

Like most PRAB meetings, the one Monday will begin with updates related to Milton’s various recreational programs from baseball to swimming to arts to adult activities to camps. Still, the primary reason for this “special-called” meeting relates to the agenda’s first two substantive items.

Both pertain to properties that the City Council approved agreements to purchase and are now in the 90-day due diligence period. In other words, the City has yet to close on (so officially buy) either property. Before that happens, City leaders wanted to give citizens the opportunity to weigh in.

The City Council on April 22 approved a contract to purchase 21.37 acres at Deerfield Parkway (across from the Verizon offices) for a possible future active park. Less than a month later, on May 16, citizens and PRAB members offered input on two draft sketches created by outside experts at CPL showing what fields, courts, parking, and other features might fit on that property.

City staff and CPL’s team took into account feedback from that meeting – as well as an analysis of what’s possible given water, topographical, and other factors – to devise an updated draft sketch (which can be viewed on this post). This is by no means a final design, though it does give a fuller, more updated sense of what features could be in an active park at 300 Deerfield Parkway.

To view this sketch in a bigger form, so you can zoom in-and-out, CLICK HERE.

CPL experts will talk about this revised sketch at Monday’s meeting, as well as highlights from a study that, among other things, will touch on whether an active park realistically could be built on this property. Citizens then can comment on whether they support an active park there and, if so, what they think should go on it.

The next PRAB agenda item isn’t necessarily about a future City park. But it is about another prospective property purchase by the City of Milton – this one for 10.488 acres at 12875 Arnold Mill Road, which is roughly opposite the Five Star Dog Resort and not far from the Arnold Mill Road/Cox Road intersection.

The due diligence period for this possible purchase ends on July 7. The City has not recommended what might go on this property, which is in the part of Milton that’s currently subject to a long-term visioning study. (For more on the Arnold Mill Small Area Plan, go to www.miltonga.gov/ArnoldMill.) If the City goes through with buying it, the property could theoretically someday be used for a park, by public safety, or for some other community enriching purpose.

The rest of Monday’s meeting will be more standard PRAB items. For example, there will be a discussion about incorporating instructor contracts for the City’s recreational programming partners.

This will be followed by a review of Milton’s plans for Parks and Recreation Month, which is in July. And finally, PRAB members will get an update on the redesign and expansion of the Legacy Park parking area.

After this meeting, PRAB is next scheduled to convene on July 18.