Unless otherwise posted per City Council resolution, when a park is closed, no person shall remain in or enter it other than to quietly sit or walk.
Refer to Chapter 39 of the City of Ann Arbor Code of Ordinances for park regulations and rules.
History
Ann Arbor's city parks sit on the ancestral and traditional homelands of several indigenous Native peoples. Read a land acknowledgement from the city and learn more about the early history of the land here.
The strip of land that became Placid Way Park was originally intended to be a road. The road project was successfully lobbied against by neighborhood residents, and then the land was given to the city after the developer paved a path through it in 1992. That same year Teresa Walsh and Alicia Zarbo, residents of the two neighborhood subdivisions, successfully launched a campaign to get the area turned into a park for children. The city agreed to match funds raised by the neighborhood residents as long as they reached their goal of $12,500, for the purposes of constructing a playground and creating the park. See a 1992 article from the Ann Arbor News about the campaign to create Placid Way Park. The fundraising campaign was successful and the park was dedicated in 1993. A plaque at the park commemorates the effort to create the park and the local businesses that contributed to it.
