Current Projects

100 Foot Park

Starting next year, the City will restore the shoreline and replace aging infrastructure at 100 Foot Park. Planned improvements include replacing two foot bridges and the stairs leading to Limeridge Drive, improving pathway connections and restoring the shoreline. Construction is subject to budget approval. Learn more about the project on Get Involved Kingston. Project contact: Matt McCombs

• Public engagement: watch the public engagement session held on Oct. 26.
• Download the public engagement summary

Cataraqui West Community Park and Trail Master Plan

Cataraqui West Community Park is a new park that will serve several new residential subdivisions in Kingston’s west end, known as Cataraqui West or Woodhaven. Some of the subdivisions have already been built and the remainder are to be constructed within the next 5-10 years.

The Park is 14 acres and is expected to include several major amenities such as splash pad, soccer field, softball diamond, pickleball and tennis courts, a basketball court, a playground and a shade structure. Trails are to be laid out to use an existing hydro corridor and a north/south trail segment is to be planned within the Collins Creek Open Space from Creekford Rd. to Cataraqui Woods Dr.

This project is in the design stages. Project contact: Patricia Sharpe

Second public engagement: Fall 2022

• Watch the online engagement session held on Nov. 24.
• Review the proposed conceptual designs for the park.
• Download the public engagement summary

First public engagement: Summer 2022

• Watch the public engagement session held on July 13.
• Review the proposed conceptual designs for the park and trail.
• Download the public engagement summary

Compton Park

Planned playground improvements at Compton Park include replacing aging play equipment, installing new safety surfacing, consolidating playground areas as well as adding a new bench and accessible pathway. The project has been deferred until 2024. Public engagement that integrates feedback received to date will resume this winter. Further site assessment will continue in the meantime. Project contact: Chanda Sames

Public engagement

• Public engagement: watch the public engagement session held on February 9.
• Review the proposed conceptual designs for the park.
• Download the public engagement summary

Confederation Basin Promenade

The Confederation Basin Promenade project is to be a new accessible walkway and public space experience built on the existing rock breakwall that shelters Flora MacDonald Confederation Basin and would be accessed from the waterfront pathway and Battery Park. Project contact: Laurie Paquin

• Download the presentation

Creekside Valley Parks

Two park projects are planned for the Creekside Valley subdivision in Westbrook.

Westbrook Park is being expanded with new land on Remington Ave. The park design will include a new playground, play lawn, pathways, seating, landscaping and tree planting. 

Creekside Valley Park is located at Creekside Valley Rd. and Brookedayle Ave. The park design will include a playground with junior/senior equipment, a play lawn, pathways, seating, landscaping, tree planting and the option of a small basketball court.

This project is in the conceptual design and public engagement phase. Detailed design is expected to occur in fall 2023. Construction is anticipated to start in 2024. Project contact: Laurie Paquin

Public engagement

Winter 2024

Review the engagement summary for the Westbrook Park expansion final conceptual design.

Summer 2023

• Watch the online engagement session held on Aug. 9.
• Review the updated park designs.
• Review the engagement summary for Creekside Valley Park.

Spring 2023

• Watch the online engagement session held on April 26.
• Review the proposed park layout and equipment options for the Westbrook Park Expansion.
• Review the proposed park layout and equipment options for Creekside Valley Park.
• Download the engagement summary

Garrigan Park

Planned playground improvements at Garrigan Park include replacing aging play equipment, installing new safety surfacing, consolidating playground areas as well as adding a new bench and accessible pathway. The work is expected to begin later this year. Project contact: Chanda Sames

Public engagement

• Public engagement: watch the public engagement session held on February 8.
• Visit Get Involved Kingston to share your input on the proposed plan.
• Review the proposed conceptual designs for the park.
• Download the public engagement summary.

Grenadier Court Improvements

The City of Kingston is replacing the tennis and basketball courts and adding four dedicated pickleball courts at Grenadier Park. Construction is anticipated to start in 2024. Project contact: Patricia Sharpe

Public engagement

• Review the proposed design plan for the courts.
• Drop in at the Kingston East Community Centre on Oct. 5 between 10 a.m. and 12 noon to see the proposed design and ask questions about the project.
• Starting Oct. 5 at 12 p.m., share your comments and ideas on Get Involved Kingston.
• Feedback can also be shared by phone or email.  Please call 613-546-0000 Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. or contact Patricia at PSharpe@Cityofkingston.ca

O'Connor Park 

Planned playground improvements at the O’Connor Park include replacing aging play equipment, installation of new safety surfacing, consolidating playground areas, accessible bench, and a pathway. Project contact: Chanda Sames

• Public engagement: watch the public engagement session held on September 13.  
• Play equipment and playground configuration options - Option 1 / Option 2.
• Download the public engagement summary.

Point Crescent Open Space

Starting next year, the City will restore the shoreline and improve access to the waterfront through the Point Crescent Open Space. This project will improve safety, waterfront access and shoreline resiliency. Construction is subject to budget approval. Learn more about the project on Get Involved Kingston. Project contact: Matt McCombs

• Watch the public engagement session held on October 27.
• Download the Public engagement summary.

Rodden Park

Planned playground improvements at Rodden Park include replacing aging play equipment, installing new safety surfacing, consolidating playground areas as well as adding a new bench and accessible pathway. Project contact: Chanda Sames

Public engagement

• Watch the public engagement session held on Feb. 8.
• Visit Get Involved Kingston to share your input on the proposed plan.
• Review the proposed conceptual designs for the park.
• Download the public engagement summary.

Ronald Lavallee Memorial Kiwanis Park

The park currently features a playground, splash pad, tennis court, junior softball and baseball diamonds and an unused park building.

Planned improvements include replacing existing playground equipment, improving accessibility and pedestrian connection, replacing the unused park building with a new community gathering space containing a shade shelter and site furnishing, and some minor enhancements to the sports field and tennis court.

• Review the proposed park layouts

Public engagement

• March 6, 2024, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at 48 Seventh Ave., Ecole Catholique Cathedrale Early Years Campus, Gymnasium.
• March 6 to April 4: Take the online survey on Get Involved Kingston.
• Watch the public engagement session held on March 7, 2024.

Rotary Park 

In 2018, the City permitted the Limestone Boat and Board Club to develop and operate a small watercraft club in Rotary Park. In 2019, the club built a dock and installed a temporary storage container.

The club is currently advancing plans for a boat house building to replace its storage container. The proposed works would include a 30’ x 45’ building, storage compound, landscaping, pathway improvements with seasonal vehicular access and a small gravel parking lot near the south of the park. Tree removal would be required, including the removal of six small living trees, approximately 300 square metres of buckthorn shrubs and dead ash trees. No high-quality trees will be removed and new tree planting will be included in the project. Construction is expected to occur in 2023. Project contact: Chanda Sames 

• Watch the public engagement session held on Dec. 15.

• Review the proposed conceptual designs and layout.

• Download the public engagement summary.

Terra Verde Park

We’re building a new park at Terra Verde Way. The new park will include a playground, pathway, seating area and landscaping. This project is in the conceptual design phase. Construction is anticipated to start in Spring 2023. Project contact: Laurie Paquin

Public engagement

• Watch the online public engagement session held on June 22.
• Review the proposed site design and playground options.
• Download the Public engagement summary.

Waterside Way Park and Trail System

Waterside Way is a new park and trail system being developed on Waterside Way in the Pittsburgh District overlooking the Cataraqui River. The new .72 hectare (1.78 acres) park will include a mid-sized playground, an open lawn/play field and pedestrian pathways with seating. 

The proposed trails run through an environmentally protected wooded area that buffers the subdivision from the river. They are to be natural, of modest scale and will connect to the new park. A lookout site that is to be naturalistic in design, is proposed for the water’s edge as part of the trail plan. 

Construction for this project is currently underway. Project contact: Patricia Sharpe

Public engagement

• Fall 2021
  • Download the conceptual trail plan and playground options 
  • Public engagement summary - Fall 2021
• Summer 2021
  • Download the presentation panels for the proposed concepts
  • Watch the first online engagement session - July 2021
  • Public engagement summary - Summer 2021

Wright Crescent Parkette

We’re building a new public park at the southeast corner of 27 Wright Crescent on Kingston & Frontenac Housing Corporation (KFHC) lands. It will include a playground, seating area and landscaping, and will connect to existing pathways. This new playground was a Council approved condition of the development of these lands following six years of planning and public consultation. Learn more about the KFHC Wright Crescent project.

This project is in the conceptual design phase. Construction is anticipated to start in 2023. Project contact: Chanda Sames

Public engagement

• Review the proposed conceptual designs for the park.
• Download the public engagement summary.
• Review the revised concept design