Background Information
Pleasant Valley Park was acquired in 1999 to be developed as a central recreation area for active recreation, primarily baseball, soccer, football and other sports that require ball fields.

A conceptual design for Pleasant Valley Park was developed by a professional park planner. It was determined that because of uneven topography the cost of developing the property for active recreation was impractical .  An estimated $11 million to create a park, with earthwork alone estimated $1.8 million. The Pleasant Valley property remained undeveloped open space.  In 2001, Murrysville purchased the Cline farm on Wiestertown Road for $1.35 million for development as the Murrysville Community Park.

In 2003, Murrysville Council considered putting the Pleasant Valley property up for sale, but eventually decided not to sell the property. 

In October 2006 Council again discussed selling the property, Considerable public input given at the meeting heavily favored keeping the property as open space. Several members of Council want to sell the property. Council voted to place a referendum item concerning the sale of the property on the November 2007 ballot.

The primary reasons Council has given for selling the Pleasant Valley property are:

• The property isn't being used for purpose it was acquired.
• Contend that Murrysville doesn't need the property for open space.
• Funds obtained from selling the property can be used to expedite development of the Murrysville Community Park.

Summary
PV Park is very valuable ecologically because of its size. Biologists have found that when a wooded area gets smaller than 100 hectares (247 acres) the probability of finding certain species of wildlife drops sharply. PV Park is over15 acres larger than the critical point where bio diversity begins to plummet, so it could serve as a valuable refuge for certain species of birds. For that reason alone, it is worth saving and a valuable asset to the community. Besides serving as a possible wildflower refugia, it may also be important someday as wildlife corridor. It is another place to control the deer population and a place for old growth to develop. It’s terrain is particularly scenic, and like Duff Park, when the trees mature, could draw tourists. It is worth keeping, now and even more so in the future.

The diverse list of activities described on the Using P.V. Park web pages presents a strong justification for permanently retaining P.V. Park.