Harrison & Haylock Parks

The Haylock and Youngblood Subdivision are large residential developments located between South River Rd and the Trestle Bridge Trail in Elora.

The developers retained a landscape architect to create the park developments plans in collaboration with Township Community Services staff. The landscape architect also provided costing for the park development. Harrison Park will be located in both Subdivisions and the design includes a playground, natural outdoor winter skating rink, shade structure, drystone wall entry features, existing trees, new shade trees, planting beds, walkways, and passive seating. Haylock Park will be in the Haylock subdivision and the design includes an existing woodlot, new restoration planting, trails, an amphitheatre, drystone wall feature and passive seating area.

Park Enhancements
The Developers have selected to enhance both parks to a standard above the Township’s park development standards, at their own expense. These are identified in Schedule A of the Agreement as Park Enhancements and include enhanced park entry features including dry stone walls, an Amphitheatre, granite boulder seating, and an upgrade to the playground to natural style play equipment. The intent for the shade structure at Harrison Park is to utilize the wood from the trees removed on-site to build the shade structure. The Developers would like to install a playground that is more naturalized, which is a more expensive style of playground. This will create a natural atmosphere for the park to compliment the trees and natural features of the parkland. Any additional costs for the shade structure or playground are covered by the Developers.

Staff are working with the Developers to ensure that these naturalized features are built to commercial standards, and enhance the park and do not create additional maintenance issues moving forward. Staff are excited to be working with these Developers to build this unique enhanced park, while ensuring all park development standards are enforced.

It is expected that the park development will take place in 2022 and/or 2023.

Haylock Youngblood Park Development Agreement