Frick Park is planning an outdoor sensory classroom for specialized outside activities for all abilities. Frick Park has multiple issues as a park in decay. One is bikers generating erosion by creating challenging slopes. Another is the expanding deer population seeking food.
Protect our Parks and Gardens has been addressing park decline. The organization is deer knowledgeable, organized by tracking, documenting, planning, prioritizing and focusing to spend potential funds for the whole park where struggling deer are consuming vegetation and devaluing parks and homeowner property. This affects everyone.
Planning for a sensory classroom in a declining park is expensive. Quicker and better results might be more successful if the Edith L. Trees Charitable Trust puts the classroom plan on hold until deteriorating parks are under control, or places the classroom on private property, or selects an area that is not in decline, such as Mt Lebanon Park.
Lois Liberman
Squirrel Hill