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Skiles, and Spring Valley would benefit from a new you want a view of Kansas City, this is where
loop trail or playground replacement. While such you will find it, be that atop Indian Mound,
improvements are not free, they are within reach Memorial Hill, Union Cemetery, West Terrace, or
for this department in the upcoming planning Waterworks Park. It’s also got a collection of lush
horizon. green valleys such a Roanoke Park, Gilham Park,
and Penn Valley Park. It features parks where
Council District #4 history is proudly displayed such as West Terrace
and Union Cemetery, and others like Jeremiah
The 57 park properties, totaling 20,960 acres, in Case Park where the stories are yet to be told.
Council District #4 have an average composite It provides ball fields and diamonds where the
score of 66.5. This district spans both sides of young and the old play organized sports such
the Missouri River and features some of the as Waterwell Athletic Complex, Heim’s Electric
most historic green spaces in Kansas City. It’s Park, and Penn Valley Park. Many of the more
highest scoring park, Memorial Hill, the site of visible and active parks in this district scored well.
the Liberty Memorial and World War I Museum The parks that are bringing down the average
(90), boasts arguably the most famous view of could in many cases be largely improved with
the city. It is closely followed by three adjacent new sidewalks, pathways, and trails that would
parks properties on the west bluffs of downtown: give more folks a reason to come and stay
Ermine Case Jr. Park (87), West Terrace Park longer. These parks include Prather Park (32),
(84), and Garment District Place (83). This Riverview Greenway, (46), North Hills Park (47),
district witnessed the lowest scoring parks in Heim’s Electric Park (52), and Crestview Park
the system: Prather Park (32), and Northeast (54). Some park spaces, due to their topography
Athletic Field (37). These are not natural parks or inaccessibility from more populated parts of
or greenways, but rather developed parks that town, are probably best left as natural parks or
are in poor condition and in need of attention and greenways over this next planning horizon, such
reinvestment. It is truly a district of extremes. If as Sunset Park (50) and one the largest pieces of

Figure 4.5: Ermine Case, Jr. Park

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