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Perris has received an $8.5 million grant that it will use to build a park.
The money, from the state Department of Parks and Recreation, will pay for a park in Enchanted Hills, a low-income part of the city that has no parks, according to a statement on the city’s website.
City Manager Richard Belmudez announced the grant, which was generated by Prop. 68, at the conclusion of the Feb. 25 council meeting.
“We are very excited about this park for our community,” Belmudez said in the statement. “We have a lot of work still ahead of us, but we are one step closer to bringing a top-notch park to a community that is truly deserving.”
City officials plan to buy 22 acres and build multipurpose fields and two multi-level playgrounds, one for children two to five years old, the other for children five to twelve years old. The park will also have a splash pad, two lighted basketball courts, concrete walkways, plazas, mountain bike tracks, hiking trails, skating spots and picnic shelters.
No construction timeline was announced.
Proposition 68, which voters passed in 2018, raised more than $254 for parks statewide, according to the statement.
