Month: February 2021

In 2011, in a statewide competition for grant funding, the Office of Grants and Local Services of the State of California Parks Department awarded Costa Mesa $275,000 to develop Brentwood Park.

In 2014, ground-breaking was scheduled to commence. However, conflict arose when elected Council Members during this period wanted the funds to go to Westside parks. In 2015, the city had to return the funds to the state.

In the 2016 Parks & Recreation Commission Park Report for District 3, Brentwood Park received a “C” rating.

Conclusions and recommendations from the report included:
■ Swings should be available at all parks
■ Shade structures should be incorporated in parks where tree shade is not available

In the 2017 Update of the Open Space Master Plan review of all of Costa Mesa’s Parks and Recreation playgrounds, only (2) parks — Brentwood and Pinkley — out of Costa Mesa’s thirty, were specifically called out for their outdated equipment (on page 64).

Pinkley Park’s playground equipment was replaced in 2019.