Mace Ranch Community Park Wins Award
Mace Ranch Community Park Wins Statewide Award of Excellence
Mace Ranch Community Park, a local Davis project once the source of significant community debate and division, has won a statewide award for Excellence in Park Planning and Design. The California Parks & Recreation Society made the award at its annual conference held recently in Ontario, CA.
The California Park & Recreation Society’s (CPRS) Awards Program recognizes excellence in promoting health and wellness, fostering human development, increasing cultural unity, protecting environmental resources, and facilitating community problem solving.
"The development process for Mace Ranch Community Park was marked with intense community interest in the project based on competing community needs: the necessary preservation of habitat and the well-documented need for recreation services," the CPRS award summary noted, "and the thorough and inventive citizen-based development process resulted in a unique and creative solution to reconciling the need for recreation with environmental protection."
The Mace Ranch Community Park, opened in September 2005, encompasses approximately 23 total acres in Davis, California. The Park offers a unique combination of park amenities (gazebo, open air amphitheatre, shaded picnic area, play structures, public art, bike trails, open turf and naturalized grassland) providing opportunities for community and family recreation, active organized sports and wildlife habitat-based outdoor recreational activities. Five acres of the parkland are preserved for habitat, most notably the burrowing owl, a protected species.
The Mace Ranch Community Park is located at 3030 Loyola Drive, and can be accessed on Loyola Drive, Fifth Street, and Alhambra Drive. More information on the park can be obtained through the Parks & Community Services Department.
A video tour of the park has been developed and can be viewed on Government Channel 16 at the following times:
Sunday April 2 through Saturday April 8, at 2:00 p.m., 7:00 p.m., and 8:00 p.m. each day.
The video tour can also be seen online via streaming video.
