Cobb commissioner JoAnn Birrell will hold a community input meeting in March to generate public feedback for proposals to redevelop Shaw Park.
The town hall has been scheduled for Thursday, March 16, from 6-8 p.m. at Piedmont Church (570 Piedmont Road) and will include Cobb PARKS staff.
A total of $4 million in the current 2022 Cobb SPLOST (Special-Purpose Local-Option Sales Tax) has been budgeted for the project, but the specific redevelopment plans were left open-ended.
Shaw Park (990 Shaw Park Drive) opened in 1970 and features softball and baseball fields, batting cages, tennis and pickleball courts, playgrounds and the Northeast Cobb Community Center.
It’s the home base for the Sandy Plains Softball Association and is located adjacent to Gritters Library, which is slated for a rebuilding project to include the community center that’s on hold due to rising construction costs.
According to the 2022 SPLOST notebook, repurposing is necessary “to better meet the recreational needs and desires of the surrounding community.”
“Park design and amenities are now outdated, and the park no longer meets the recreational needs of the community.”
The 2022 SPLOST also calls for $3 million to be collected to develop Ebenezer Downs, a new passive park in the Northeast Cobb area, located on Ebenezer Road. Cobb commissioners approved a master plan in 2019.
For more information about the Shaw Park town hall e-mail jordan.wood@cobbcounty.org.
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This is an absolute war on GIRLS! The park could absolutely use updates that would make it an even BIGGER draw for girls. These fields should be updated to turf and the would be used even more for sodtball, kickball leagues, baseball. Cobb County wouldn’t dare take away fields from boys at Sewell Park or Harrison park the homes of over a dozen parks for boys baseball.
You do know that Shaw Park used to be all baseball fields for boys before they were changed to softball fields right? I agree that the softball fields should definitely stay and should be updated (not to turf, grass fields are way better) but there is ample room for other development in the park. If they want to add more pickle ball courts they can do so past the outfield fence of field 3 where its just grass and mud and could hold more than 10 pickleball courts. If they are considering removing softball fields altogether then they should be ashamed, the needs of the middle-aged should not outweigh the needs of the children