The phrase
"tot lot" refers to a small playground or play area specifically designed for young children, usually toddlers.
Full definition
The only
tot lot in the district has two swing sets and a slide, all in poor condition.
They claim the Park District failed to maintain the single park it owns, a postage - stamp - sized
tot lot with two swing sets and a slide.
There is also a
fun tot lot inside the community, where your kids will enjoy playing with their friends.
Through Molinaro's initiative, which spent a total of $ 2.5 million, the city
built tot lots previously at Silver Lake Park, Drumgoole Road West and in New Dorp.
In about a year's time, as many as 80 people were hired as police officers by the Dixmoor Park District, even though the district's lone property was a
single tot lot containing a few pieces of playground equipment, federal authorities say.
Kids can also enjoy spending time with their friends on one of the
several tot lots.
There is also a fun
tot lot inside the community, where your kids will enjoy playing with their friends.
But for now, the only new face will be the soon - to - be-completed renovation of Kermit's Korner Park, one of the original Bartlett Park District
tot lot parks, its name inspired by the Muppets character.
A Cook County judge extended her order Wednesday that closed the
lone tot lot operated by the troubled Dixmoor Park District, as she attempts to sort out who belongs on the district's beleaguered board.
Calling it a «noble experiment,» the Permit Review Committee of Chicago's Commission on Landmarks approved a proposal Wednesday to outfit historic Palmer Square with a «Velveteen Rabbit» -
themed tot lot and other recreational accouterments.
Kinnaird's decision casts the future of the park district's lone property — a
minuscule tot lot with two swings and one slide — into limbo.
Dixmoor Police Chief Joseph Falica testified Tuesday that the Children's Memorial Park, a
small tot lot that was the Park District's only property, was constantly in disrepair, with broken swings and fences, gang graffiti and overgrown grass.
The board unanimously approved a request by Trustee William Simpson to add $ 30,000 to the Heritage Park and
tot lot fund.
Staten Island Borough Commissioner for the Parks Department Adena Long joined Borough President James Molinaro and Assemblyman Joe Borelli to cut the ribbon on the
newest tot lot, a recreational space for small children, at Blue Heron Park.
Forty - one percent or 352 of the municipalities with park bans had «
tot lot bans» — prohibitions on smoking in children's play areas.
The Blue Heron Park playground was the fifth and final installment of Molinaro's borough - wide initiative to
build tot lots, starting in 2011.
The Dixmoor park police force bulged to more than 80 officers, even though the district owns just a
single tot lot.
Kids can also enjoy spending time with their friends on one of the
several tot lots.
The Kenilworth Park District has about 12 acres of parkland with three baseball diamonds, soccer field, football field and two
tot lots.
By the end of 1962, the district owned 460 acres of land and had constructed four park - schools, four ice skating rinks and one
tot lot.
With an annual budget of about $ 43,000, the Park District can afford to mow the grass, put in some benches and bike racks and buy wood chips for
the tot lot, Adler said.
The Park District has no plans to prepare the site for intensive use, like athletic fields, and, at most, might use the property for day camps or
tot lots, Dunsmuir said.
Recreational fr soccer fields, indoor and outdoor basketball and volleyball courts, three outdoor swimming pools, picnic areas,
tot lots, playgrounds and two fitness centers.
Opponents of a proposed plan to build
a tot lot and dog - run in historic Palmer Square urged city officials Monday to look into constructing the amenities on vacant land instead of altering the square's 19th Century character.
The park district has one facility: a garbage - strewn, postage - stamp - sized «
tot lot.»
The site has two tennis courts,
a tot lot and a baseball diamond that is good for recreational use only.
The committee unanimously approved the Chicago Park District plan over the objections of residents who fear
the tot lot will alter the square's 19th Century character and set a precedent for carving up the city's boulevard system.
«We offered a half acre in the northeast corner of the site, which could be used for a «
tot lot, «and we would landscape it and contribute $ 20,000 to equip it with apparatus, «Kachadurian said.
Local children helped develop
the tot lot design based on Margery Williams» classic children's book «The Velveteen Rabbit,» in which a stuffed toy rabbit comes to life.
The site was terrific in that the pavilion we were at was right next to
a tot lot (not part of the reservation), and also a short walk from the spray pool and restrooms.
The Gold Coast and Lincoln Park neighborhoods are home to at least 13 playlots and playgrounds, according to the Park District, as well as a few «
tot lots» for very young children.
The tot lot would have a 2 - foot - high retaining wall and shrubbery.
A new modular playground and
tot lot would replace the playground equipment on the east side, and the district would add a shelter with a drinking fountain and a basketball half - court.
The council, under the guidance of the Edgewater Community Council, raised more than $ 455,000 from the community and obtained a $ 200,000 commitment from the Park District to install
the tot lot in Senn Park, the lawsuit said.
At Tompkins Park, an asphalt path would connect the north baseball diamond to the south diamond, and the district plans to install a basketball half - court and
a tot lot in the southeast corner of the park.
It also is revamping the 10 - acre Palmer Square with
a tot lot, walking trails and a soft - surface jogging trail.
«It will be 35 feet from
a tot lot,» she said.
Last year, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources awarded Chicago a $ 381,100 matching grant to outfit Palmer with
a tot lot, walking trails, a soft - surface jogging trail, seating, lighting and landscaping.
In addition to obtaining an accounting of the district's property and finances, Kinnaird also moved to reopen
the tot lot.
Pleading guilty were the former chief, James Parks, under whose leadership the force bulged to more than 80 officers even though the Park District owned just a single
tot lot, and Marshall Thompson, a former sergeant with the Maywood Park District Police Department, who acted as a «bagman» in the scheme.
Earlier this year, federal prosecutors said the Dixmoor Park District had as many as 80 police officers, even though the district's lone property is
a tot lot.
The Glencoe Park Board is considering an ordinance that would ban smoking at the community's lakefront, and Evanston may outlaw smoking at its six beaches and approximately 60 playgrounds and
tot lots.
Evanston extends its no - smoking rule to all beaches, playgrounds and
tot lots.
The officers» duties were rather limited because the Dixmoor Park District owned just the one
tot lot, called Children's Memorial Park, which had two swing sets, a slide and a couple of plastic whales and pelicans for children to rock back and forth on.