Eager residents driving to visit Sunnyvale’s newest park have been struggling to find parking spots.
There is limited off-street parking and no on-street parking in the immediate area of Seven Seas Park, located at 1010 Morse Ave.
To address the high demand, Sunnyvale parks staff held a public meeting in October and conducted an online survey and found that additional parking was needed.
“The city will be restriping the street to allow for parallel parking for about 20 to 25 vehicles along the park side of Morse Avenue,” Sunnyvale communications officer Jennifer Garnett said. “The street won’t be striped for specific parking spaces, so the number of vehicles that can park there will depend upon their size.”
In addition to restriping the street, the city will remove the “No Parking” signs there and add signage and striping for the pedestrian crosswalk.
Garnett added that the new street lanes will be within the city’s standard street width and the bike lanes on both sides of the street will be retained.
“The city is working on the schedule for completion now, so we don’t yet have a date,” Garnett said.
For more information about the changes, contact the parks division in the public works department at 408.730.7506 or email parks@sunnyvale.ca.gov.
Seven Seas Park officially opened July 12 and is the first city-developed neighborhood park since Encinal Park was dedicated in 1987 in north Sunnyvale.
The 5.3-acre park has a sea-themed tot lot for ages 2-5, youth play area for ages 6-12, more than an acre of open play space, a splash park, tennis and half-basketball courts, restroom facilities, picnic tables, an enclosed dog park, walking/running trails and a public art installation titled “Under the Umbrella” by Arteclettica.
The park also boasts sustainability features, including subsurface irrigation, LED pathway lighting, bioswales to maximize water retention on site, drought-tolerant plants and recycled water from the splash park for landscape irrigation.
Seven Seas was constructed at a cost of approximately $4.9 million using the city’s park dedication fund.
