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It might be interesting to think more about adjacencies - which activities fit best next to other ones, and what is the transition between areas.

You've eloquently explained how your park design would benefit people of various ages. I appreciate how much thought you've given as to the types of activities people would do if they visited. I think there's still some opportunity to further develop your design by breaking up some of the elements, like the grass, and making it feel a bit more intimately-scaled. Overall, you did a great job of explaining your thought process.

Thanks for including a hand-drawn sketch and for annotating it.

As I try to get oriented to your site, it would be helpful to label which direction is north on your sketches.

This is a great example. I like how the edges of the planters double as seating.

Great idea to add benches for the parents! And it's nice that the trees provide shade. You may want to consider more shade trees in your design, near the picnic tables and potentially event to break up the grassy field.

It's great how much you've thought of how people of various ages would use the park. The little details, like the different levels of playground equipment and different heights of water fountains are really nice to see.

It looks really plain dude. You should maybe think about adding more components to your site. Like there's too little nature in the park which is something that's a big component of and actual park. I also recommend getting rid of the brick wall because it doesn't go with the whole aspect of the park and the other colors included in the park.

With that wide open space of grass in your park, I think you could find a more efficient usage of space, and as I stated in another comment, more walkways should be added to ease traffic on the grass in order to decrease maintenance. Speaking of maintenance, this park is in a desert climate, and a substitute that would use less water would also lower the amount of maintenance needed to keep Regular Park looking pristine. I really like the addition of a dog park though, as this area is primarily residential, so literally the "whole family" (no pets left behind) could go and visit your park.

I really like the usage of metal statues to enhance the facade of your park, and you used stone extremely well in your sign as it compliments the surrounding features of the sign, the colors are very well coordinated. Great looking park! The only thing is that from this view, the majority of your park looks like it has a lack of walkways towards the center of the grass portion of the park. As you may know, traffic wears down grass over time and a walkway would be a possible solution to decreasing the traffic wear if the walkway is placed in the appropriate position.