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Year-long parks utilization review: staff recommends geofencing to supplement counters
Summary
Staff presented a parks utilization report spanning more than a year of data, showing reservation patterns and traffic counts; staff proposed geofencing (cell-location aggregates) to better estimate park visit origins and durations.
City staff presented a parks utilization report that compiles reservations, seasonal patterns and vehicle counts across Lucas parks. The presentation highlighted that the community center is the most-used reservable facility, with seasonality in field use and pavilion reservations, and noted limitations in counting casual, unreserved park visits.
On traffic counts at Kenneth Dar Lewis Park, staff said "your peaks, you're seeing about 24 cars per day" at busy times and about 13 on low days, and showed weekend spikes tied to events. Staff recommended exploring geofencing to capture origin and dwell-time data while acknowledging tradeoffs in accuracy and device durability for year-long counters. The board asked follow-up questions about privacy, data reliability and whether geofencing could replace deployed sensors.
