Community Chat

Thank you for joining us for our first quarterly community chat. We appreciate everyone who contributed ideas and we will use this info to help guide us. Below are the notes from chat. Info for our next chat will be posted here after we set a date.

Vision for Arena Cove: 

  • Creek restoration

  • Boat house

  • Work on the pier

  • Exposing the creek at the Coast Guard House

  • Trail access

  • Kids park

  • Skate park

  • Native plants to be put in

  • Urchin eradication

  • Boat ramp (on beach)

  • Work w/fisherman on advertising / letting people know when they go out to get fish

  • Shaved ice machine

  • Campground

  • BBQ Pits/ Pavilion

  • Rip Rap out of channel

  • Indigenous Pomo community influence and input 

  • Murals / cleaning up the red shed

  • Creating a master plan

  • Be the bridge w/pier, fishermen, and City with grant help

  • Visitor surveys

  • Volunteers

  • ADA access to park

  • Sign for entrance 

  • Creek walking trail

Ideas for Arena Cove Park: 

  • Children's playground

  • Temporary structures - swing set

  • Stairs

  • Stone installation

  • BBQ pits

  • Access to park

  • Railing/ fence along cliff edge

  • ADA access along the road in the rock wall property 

  • Sign for alternative access

  • Par course/ workout station

Ideas for Rock Wall Property:

  • Skate Park/ Skating area 

  • Venue/ Farmer’s market

  • BMX/Biking 

  • Pile Driver Restoration

  • Camping - walk in/ bike in only

  • Flooding restoration

  • Opening creek area/ exposing the creek

  • Nature preservation

  • Pump track

  • Commercial kitchen for fishermen (filet station, freezer)

  • Food/ fish waste recycle 

Ideas for Boat House:

  • Surf club

  • Surf lockers

  • Visitors center

  • Museum

  • Educational program/ center

  • Commercial fishermen kitchen 

  • Hands on aquarium

  • Have it open for community access

  • Event space

  • Water rescue

  • Junior lifeguards

  • Combining multiple ideas into the space

  • Marine science camps

  • International hostel

  • Lifeguard housing/ local housing 

Ideas for signs:

  • Point Arena Mountain Beaver

  • Surfer’s code

  • Entrance sign 

  • Kelp forest/ Trees information

  • Fisherman sign

  • Information about the Indigenous Pomo Tribe 

  • Falling Rocks 

  • City of Point Arena information (QR Code for website)

  • Geology/ Oceanography

  • Mural on sea wall

  • Richard Oaks mural / sign 

  • Tick / Lyme disease information

Have questions? Contact us.