“I quite like the Pump House restoration,” Mary Bath said. “It’s a piece of history.”

Fixing the park’s transportation issues also resonated with many attendees at the Wednesday meeting.

“There’s a theme through what we have talked about — how important parking is on the user experience, on your ability to get to the park as well as everybody else’s,” Rieder said. “It’s clear that this is a huge issue. Think of how difficult it is to get to Pony Pasture on a summer weekend.”

To that end, the plan recommends using existing offsite parking structures and lots, both private and municipal, in order to ensure there is space for parkgoers without bringing more cars close to the river. Creating a shuttle system transporting people to and from offsite parking, likely starting with a small loop that could include one to two new parking areas, is feasible, Rieder said.

The plan also aims to increase multimodal transportation to the park to reduce vehicular trips, which the survey indicated is the primary way people access the parks. Options include charging nonresidents for parking, identifying planned bike lanes and roadway crossings, and increasing GRTC service to the park.