Magical Bridge Playground Project

Magical Bridge Playground Project

The City of Palo Alto in collaboration with the community based non-profit group The Friends of the Magical Bridge have formed a partnership to design and build a playground fully inclusive of all user groups in the community. This would be the first such playground in the Nation. The playground is proposed in an underutilized area of Mitchell Park and is approximately 0.8 acres in size. The proposed playground design is composed of seven play zones, with each zone focusing on a specific type of play. Access to the site is provided by the Charleston access pathway, a major bike path, which parallels the existing tennis courts and crosses over Adobe Creek via an existing bridge. As part of the proposed project, the existing bridge would be removed and replaced with an ADA-compliant structure.

Palo Alto

Santa Clara

Air Resources Board, Transportation Projects, California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), Department of Water Resources, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

Recreational (Playground)

Site Plan

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Sewer Capacity, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire