The City of Warren is still looking to hear feedback on a proposal to rehabilitate the playground across the street from the CAR Pool at Point Park.

A public hearing was held earlier this week before the Parks, Recreation and Landscape Commission and no comments were offered but city staff have received approximately 50 surveys back on the proposal.

The city is going after a state grant to cover 50 percent of the project, which would include parking, sidewalk and playground improvements as well as a new pavilion and a trail down to the confluence of the Allegheny River and Conewango Creek.

That trail is currently proposed to be concrete because, according to Administrative Assistant Kassie Damcott, limestone trails are “very difficult to work with to make them ADA accessible.”

“This is very conceptual,” Department of Public Works Superintendent Joe Reinke said. “Some of these ideas might not go.”

Reinke said those decisions will be funding dependent. He said that if funding is secured the “absolutes” will be the pavilion and playground improvements.

“I think just enhancing this to the fullest would be marvelous,” Commission member Mary Conarro said.

Citing playgrounds standards, Reinke said it is “really important we upgrade these playgrounds.”

He said that they’re seeing kids playing there before, during and after pool hours.

“The kids in the neighborhood don’t have a walkable playground,” he added.

Reinke said the trail would “more so hug the road, just inside the woods”

Commission chair Mike Suppa raised the lack of restroom access in the design.

The park is “pretty far away from any sort of public restroom,” he said.

A restroom facility is “really not an option,” Reinke said. “(A) seasonal port-a-potty is an option. It doesn’t look as nice.”