Community Design
When the City of Wilmington announced its plans to demolish the underground water tank at the Rodney Reservoir and sell the land for private development, Green for the Greater Good organized the community to successfully advocate to keep the site public and green and develop a resident-driven vision for the future Rodney Reservoir Park.
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Starting in 2022, we've partnered with Professor Anna Wik, RLA, ASLA, of the University of Delaware’s Plant and Soil Sciences Department and Dr. Nina David of the Biden School of Public Policy and Administration to facilitate community design work.
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This collaboration has created many opportunities for neighbors and community organizations to work with experts and students in landscape architecture and urban planning to facilitate our community's thinking about what’s possible for a public park at the Rodney Reservoir site, to take stock of our collective priorities, and to move toward a common vision.
Over 80 members of the public came together and developed a high-level vision for a nature- and community-focused park at the Rodney Reservoir.
Students of Professor Anna Wik's Urban Design Studio course developed creative designs for the future Rodney Reservoir Park.
To organize more community input into the design of the community garden portion of the site, we teamed up with UD's Living Lab Research Group once more to facilitate community-engaged research and design sessions, this time focused on the Rodney Reservoir Community Garden.