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Friendship Heights council backs Paige Park changes, approves raised play surface and wood decking
Summary
The council unanimously approved Parks & Grounds Committee recommendations to fill the circular playground depression at Paige Park, eliminating an interior ramp, and to replace a proposed concrete approach with a wood-decking product to reduce root damage and improve perviousness. The stormwater concept plan is under county review.
Martha Soult, chair of the Friendship Heights Village Council, on Monday moved and the council unanimously approved modifications to the Paige Park playground and associated stormwater concept that will raise the play surface and use a wood-decking approach for the path under the pergola.
The changes adopt the Parks & Grounds Committee recommendation to "make the children's play area flush with the surrounding area by filling the circular depression" and to "change the composition of the ramp to access under the pergola from a concrete like product to a wood decking like product," Soult said when she made the motion. The motion passed after a second from…
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