Healthway Parks:
Rain-Garden with Horse Sculpture Park System along NS Bike Trail
This green park system would follow with the Healthways North-South Bike Trail from the Kentucky Horse Park to downtown. This system would create 5 mini sustainable parks designed to use rainwater and ecologically selected plant life. Each park would have a "Horse-Related" Bronze Sculpture, 10 trees and up to 3 benches. Phase 1 for the 2010 Deadline would populate the trail from downtown to the Horse Park. Lexington would design the 1st "mini-park" south of the Horse Park. A green park design competition would invite our Sister Cities from around the world (Lexington’s Four Sister Cities from around the world are Deauville, France, County County Kildare, Ireland, Shinhidaka, Japan and Newmarket, England) to each design a mini-park that would complete designs for the other 4 mini-parks . All citizens would be invited to vote on the design contest winners. In the future, it could grow with the entire East-West and Loop Bike Trail systems. Online maps (maybe with GoogleMaps Beta) would use the system to promote "Safe Bike Tours" and would stimulate local businesses as tour popularity grows. Healthway Parks would be important tourist attractions along the bike tour.
See Attached “Healthway Park Map.”
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