HUNTINGTON BEACH : Dock, Play Area for Handicapped OKd
The City Council has approved plans for a fishing dock and play area in Huntington Central Park designed to accommodate handicapped children.
The 1-acre area to be built next to Huntington Lake will include ramps leading to the dock and sandbox, picnic tables and park benches tailored for wheelchair access and play equipment constructed for physically handicapped children.
The project, in the works for more than two years, will be the city’s first handicap-accessible play site and one of only a few such facilities in Southern California, said Jim Engle, the city’s park development superintendent.
Engle said many parents of handicapped children told him that there are no public play sites in the Huntington Beach area accessible to their children.
Most of the project cost is being paid with a $100,000 state grant the city received for the play area. The city is paying the remaining $65,000 from its general park development fund.
Construction on the fishing and play area is expected to begin in April, and the facility is scheduled to open by mid-summer, Engle said.
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