Pawtuxet Village Association (PVA) president Ginny Leslie knows exactly what she would like to see as an addition to the village park. In fact, she’s even researched where the city Planning Department can find a picture of what Mackworth Island in Falmouth, a state park north of Portland, ME has and she would like to bring to the village – it’s an adult swing big enough for two.

Leslie is hopeful to find her suggestion included in park plans displayed Monday from 3 to 7 p.m. at the Aspray Boat House.

According to legal advertisement in the Feb. 16 Warwick Beacon, “The purpose of the meeting is to gather residents’ preferences as to how the park may be redeveloped over time with grant sources. Four distinct subject stations will be set up for review and input.”

The plans will suggest  means for stabilizing,  the shoreline, reorganization of the parking lot, removal and control of invasive vegetation, boat ramp improvements, and the type and location of park amenities, such as the playground.

Warwick senior planner Dean Pimentel said people would be handed packets on arriving at the boat house that will contain questionnaires pertaining to each of the four stations.

The questionnaires will offer options. For example there will be alternatives for the layout of the parking lot; choices on the types of restrooms if, in fact, restrooms are wanted and shoreline amenities such as a boat ramp.

Pimentel said questionnaire responses and suggestions would be used to draft a park master plan over the next several months that would then be shared by village agencies and possibly at a public hearing. He pointed out implementation of the plan would be subject to approval from permitting agencies and funding. Grants would be sought to implement elements of the plan.

Leslie emailed PVA members about the meeting and she imagines the Gaspee Days Committee, Pawtuxet Rangers and Friends of Pawtuxet Village have taken similar steps to get out the word. She said that in recent times there was a proposal to relocate the playground closer to Narragansett Parkway that met stiff resistance and that former Warwick Planner Jonathan Stevens drafted a study that among proposals suggested a stand where people could keep their kayaks and canoes for easy access to the cove.

Leslie noted that the PVA paid for a survey of the park and that the organization with funding from the Vivian Palmieri Fund has the money for improvements.