4.2 Maintain and expand recreation infrastructure in the City including parks, athletic facilities, trails, and greenways.

Strategic Objective

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Total Actions
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In Progress
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Actions

Strategic actions under this objective

4.2.1 Enhance existing facilities and build additional athletic fields (indoor and outdoor) and playgrounds.
Key Performance Indicators
Create Civic Park Master Plan with athletic field, playground, parking, perimeter trail by end of 2024.
Create playground replacement plan and remove dangerous elements by end of 2024.
Replace problem fencing at Riverside, Civic, Basin, Eldridge and Colburn.
Expand Rec Dept equipment fleet to accommodate present and future needs
Develop a long range facilities improvement plan for Storrs Hill Ski Area for the Lebanon Outing Club.
Replace one pump per year over three years at the Lebanon Veterans Memorial Pool to increase energy efficiency from 2024-2026.
Increase shade footprint by at least 200% at the Lebanon Veterans Memorial Pool by 2026.
Remove invasive knotweed and consolidate storage and location of sheds to Pat Walsh Park.
Evaluate potential future location of a Lebanon Community Center.
Recreation, Arts, and Parks
2025 Planned
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4.2.2 Partner with citizen action groups thru Friends of Leb Rec to enhance parks.
Key Performance Indicators
Increase skate surface at Rusty Berrings Skate Park in 2025.
Establish Civic Playground group, final design, and complete the capital fundraising campaign in 2024.
Recreation, Arts, and Parks
2025 In Progress
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4.2.3 Address and achieve ADA compliance throughout Recreation and Parks and Library facilities.
Key Performance Indicators
All parks with picnic tables have at least 1 ADA table.
Continue to invest in accessible picnic tables, playground infrastructure, and improve areas needing attention
Recreation, Arts, and Parks
2025 In Progress
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4.2.4 Increase access to trails and parks, promoting exercise and healthy lifestyle.
Key Performance Indicators
Complete one new park access improvement from the Safe Routes to Play report in 2024.
Pave Mascome River Greenway Slayton Hill parking lot in 2025.
Complete interpretive and wayfinding signage plan and implement plan in 2 locations during Westboro and Bridge St Park development.
Recreation, Arts, and Parks
2025 In Progress
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4.2.5 Explore potential opportunities for Westboro Property and Trail.
Key Performance Indicators
Generate proposals and recommendation for property that does not accept the environmental liability of the site per the Council’s April 16, 2025 decision, for presentation to City Council no later than Q3 2026.
Should the State commit to retaining the environmental liability, the City Council shall re-evaluate within 90 days such acquisition.
Acquire land ownership and develop construction plans in 2024.
Public Works Recreation, Arts, and Parks West Lebanon Revitalization Committee
2025 2026 In Progress
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4.2.6 Collaborate with Dartmouth College and DHMC to build a new park in North Lebanon.
Key Performance Indicators
Identify land and establish official partnership with DHMC or Dartmouth College by 2025.
Recreation, Arts, and Parks
2025 In Progress
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4.2.7 Enhance and extend Mascoma River Greenway
Key Performance Indicators
Pave Mascoma River Greenway parking lot
Implement master plan for maintenance on the Northern Rail Trail, starting in 2024.
Establish Mascoma River Greenway connections at Lebanon Ford in 2025.
Extend Mascoma River Greenway through Riverside Park to 12A.
Continue to control invasive species along the Mascoma River Greenway/Northern Rail Trail.
Recreation, Arts, and Parks
2025 In Progress
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4.2.8 Increase responsiveness to vandalism
Key Performance Indicators
Respond to and clean offensive graffiti within 24-48 hours, and other graffiti within 1 week.
Install surveillance cameras at problem locations in 2024.
Recreation, Arts, and Parks
2025 In Progress
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4.2.9 Review and Update the Community Facilities and Services Chapter of the Master Plan
Key Performance Indicators
Develop a Chapter update process with a citywide working group with support from Planning and DPW staff.
2025 In Progress
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