Parks and Recreation Fairwood residents will continue to have access to many park facilities. However, the City of Fairwood will very likely only take over ownership of one local facility from King County. Existing "regional" facilities will continue to be owned and maintained by King County. Local Parks and Recreation Facilities Neighborhood Parks owned by HOAs
The character of parks and recreational facilities owned by Home Owner Associations does not change when Fairwood becomes a City. Recreation Programming
The Fairwood Feasibility Study assumes that the City will provide some recreational programming at the playfields of the "regional" park facilities (e.g., Petrovitsky Park), under an agreement with the County. Similarly, the City may coordinate use of some neighorhood facilities owned by an HOA, under an agreement between the City and the HOA. This could include summer day camps, coordinating sport leagues, and training or instruction for sport activities at neighorhood, local or regional facilities.
Regional Parks Under current King County policy, "regional" park facilities are retained by the county, although located inside of a City. For example: Marymoor Park is a "regional" King County Park located inside the City of Redmond. The following "regional" King County Parks are located in or adjacent to the Fairwood community. State owned recreational facilities
The State provides public fishing access at two lakes within the Fairwood community. Actions of the Boundary Review Board in June 2006, require comment, concerning the map (below) - In the north, the neighborhoods that directly access the Renton-Maple Valley Highway (SR169) were removed from the proposed City of Fairwood.
- In the west, Lindbergh High School and the Renton Park neighborhood were also removed from the proposed City of Fairwood.
Fairwood Area Parks and Open Space
 Source: Fairwood Feasibility Study, page 71, by Berk & Associates [See Fairwood Feasibility Study, Parks and Recreation, pages 70-74, by Berk & Associates]
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