Más de un millón de personas asisten a funciones en las instalaciones del parque en el Distrito Electoral 4 cada año.
"Taking exceptional care of Precinct 4’s parks is part of our attempt to develop strong family bonds.”
"If parents are taking their children to parks to play, whether it's for organized sports or just to enjoy the park, it's keeping them out of trouble."
—Commissioner Jerry Eversole
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A continuación se encuentra una lista de los proyectos de parque actuales y futuros del vasto sistema de parques del Distrito Electoral 4:
 Precinct 4 acquired right-of-way along Cypress Creek that will connect Collins and Meyer parks. In appreciation of Genevieve and Robert Gourley, who donated the recreational easement for this Precinct 4 project, Commissioner Jerry Eversole will dedicate the trail as the “Gourley Nature Trail” at a ribbon cutting ceremony scheduled for Thursday, December 4 at 10 a.m. The Gourley Nature Trail, which will be approximately 2,850 feet long and 10 feet wide, will be made of asphalt and will include a concrete bridge to cross over an existing drainage ditch. Additionally, the Cypress Creek Flood Control Coalition (CCFCC) is funding benches and signage to be placed along the trail through a $10,000 grant they received from REI.
Precinct 4 supports the grass roots activities and projects of Cypress Creek Flood Control Coalition (CCFCC) to create a greenway along the upper and lower ends of Cypress Creek. This greenway project is a partnership of local utility districts, developers, landowners, and government agencies working together to set aside parkland, create natural floodplain buffer zones, and a linear wildlife habitat. The ultimate goal is to create a contiguous trail system along Cypress Creek.
Middle Cypress Creek: Development includes acquisition of property once owned by Hewlett-Packard and now owned by V&W Partners LTD. Currently, Precinct 4 is working with local leaders to help set aside the lakes on this beautiful property for future generations to enjoy. Other plans to develop this section of Cypress Creek include the connective trail from Collins Park to Meyer Park and additional mountain bike trails heading east out of Collins Park to the new T.C. Jester bridge crossing over Cypress Creek.
Lower Cypress Creek: Land acquisitions and future development will connect the Spring Creek Greenway to Cypress Creek by creating connectivity of 52 miles of equestrian trails at Bush Intercontinental Airport to a 7.5-mile corridor of Spring Creek Greenway (SCG). Este proyecto de conectividad proveerá una rampa para un nuevo puente peatonal que atraviesa Cypress Creek dentro de SCG.
Since the ribbon cutting of the playground in August of 2006, Be An Angel Fund Inc. has raised additional funds to provide three 30-seat pavilions, a sensory garden, a donor pavers garden, barbecue pits, and picnic tables. Commissioner Jerry Eversole thanked members of Be An Angel Fund Inc., Humble Noon Lions Club, Kingwood Medical Center, and Waste Management June 20, 2008 for the new features at Lindsay/Lyons Park. Earlier in 2008, Precinct 4 parks staff built a one-third-mile paved trail around the perimeter of the playground and planted additional trees.
Esta reserva de 58 acres es el resultado de una sociedad pública/privada entre el Distrito Electoral 4 y Legacy Land Trust (LLT), una organización de preservación sin fines de lucro que se dedica a proteger áreas naturales en la región de Houston (www.llt.org). Together, Precinct 4 and LLT secured land mitigations from 10 separate developers to create this preserve that future generations can enjoy for years to come. Precinct 4 has installed fencing around the site, which was experiencing devastation from four-wheeler activity. In conjunction with LLT and the Apache Foundation (the philanthropic unit of Apache Corporation), Precinct 4 has planted over 500 trees at the preserve.
Status: The preserve is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. The preserve is staffed by LLT volunteers, and off-road bicycling is allowed only on Sundays; hiking is allowed only on Saturdays.
Eagle Scout projects at LCCP include amphitheater-style seating for an outdoor classroom and a kiosk at the front of the preserve that lists bird sightings, nature tours, and other activities/projects planned for the preserve.
The Association for Better Community Schools (ABCS) and Be An Angel Fund Inc. are currently raising funds to construct a barrier-free playground and picnic facilities at Matzke Park. Additionally, the Norchester Garden Club is funding the construction of a new gazebo at the park while ABCS provided funds for five memorial benches to be placed in the gazebo.
Precinct 4 partnered with ABCS in 2006 to develop Matzke Park, spending over $2 million in land acquisition, engineering, and design work. Amenities at this 19-acre park include an 80-space asphalt parking lot along Copeland Road; water, sewer, and electrical infrastructure; a rest room facility; fencing along Grant Road; a butterfly garden; and 4,500 linear feet of asphalt-paved trails. The park also includes four soccer fields, two of which double as a cricket field that was funded and installed by the Triggers Cricket Club. The practice fields are leased and maintained by the Cy-Fair Youth Soccer Association.
Precinct 4 acquired land to provide a contiguous 380-acre park site located at 4129 Spring Creek Drive. Pundt Park is the first park to be developed under the Spring Creek Greenway project and will feature a canoe launch, picnic loop with 10 tables, playground, rest room facility, 103-space parking lot, two small pavilions, bicycle racks, and two trailheads with one bridge. Future expansion at Pundt Park will include an office, meeting room, and large group pavilion.
This project is funded in part by a $1 million Spring Creek Greenway Phase I matching grant awarded by Texas Parks and Wildlife, and park bond funds allocated from the 2001 Capital Improvements Bond Referendum.
Commissioner Jerry Eversole hosted a groundbreaking ceremony July 18 to kick off the first of two phases of construction at the park.
La posibilidad de un corredor de 33 millas es el resultado de un esfuerzo en conjunto del Comisionado Jerry Eversole del Distrito Electoral 4 del Condado de Harris y el Comisionado Ed Chance del Distrito Electoral 3 del Condado Montgomery. In 2005, Texas Parks & Wildlife awarded a $1 million Regional Grant, to be split equally between Harris County Precinct 4 and Montgomery County Precinct 3, for development of this project. El Distrito Electoral 4 planea utilizar su parte de la subvención para financiar la construcción y la creación de senderos en Pundt Park.
Phase I: Currently in the design stage to create a 7.5-mile corridor between Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center and Pundt Park.
Jesse H. Jones Park & Nature Center: Acquisition of a 15-acre (Alonso) tract connects Jones Park to Cypress Creek; a new canoe launch was completed early in 2008; a new section of trail to be constructed in 2008 will connect Jones Park to Pundt Park.
Jones-Bender Trailhead at Jones Park: A 1.5-mile trail that connects neighborhoods to the Spring Creek Greenway was completed in 2006. El Distrito Electoral 4 recibió el 80 por ciento de una subvención del TPWD para financiar este proyecto y la asociación con urbanizadores del área, Appaloosa Land Company y Kenswick Meadows, proporcionaron donaciones de tierras y construcción de puentes necesarios.
Senderos contiguos
En la actualidad, el Distrito Electoral 4 está trabajando conjuntamente con el Distrito de Control de Inundaciones del Condado de Harris y Charter Development Partners, un urbanizador, para la compra de parcelas y donaciones de propiedades de terrenos anegados para construir un puente en la sección baja de Cypress Creek hasta Spring Creek Greenway para crear una conexión lineal.
Sendero ecuestre
Working with Bush Intercontinental Airport’s “Ranger Rider Program,” Precinct 4 is developing equestrian trails from lower Cypress Creek to Spring Creek.
El aumento en el nivel de apoyo del público que el Distrito Electoral 4 recibió debido a los proyectos de mejoras de parques, se debió a las asociaciones con otras agencias tales como distritos municipales de servicios al público (MUDs), urbanizadores, organizaciones comunitarias y agencias públicas y privadas.
Ya que se gastan los fondos de bonos del parque del 2001 y se aprovechan aún más los fondos provenientes de los impuestos durante esta etapa de rápido crecimiento en el Condado de Harris, apreciaríamos sus comentarios y participación en aras de avanzar hacia el mismo objetivo: mejorar la calidad de vida en el Distrito Electoral 4.
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