The city of Sunset Valley is beginning to check out selections for the Upper Cougar Creek spot in close proximity to Brodie Lane. (Courtesy Sunset Valley)
The idea strategy displays a small path procedure connecting to the enterprise district and everlasting h2o features that would be located within just the floodway. Other functions involve a modest outside amphitheater with lawn seating, a coated pavilion and a garden location. Pedestrian bridges would hook up the trails throughout the water space, although river bank vegetation could be planted in the location.
Town Manager Sylvia Carrillo claimed the project could revitalize the city’s downtown region with opportunities to boost the city’s environmental stewardship and to incorporate regional artwork installations, performances and other sights for both of those locals and out-of-town friends.
“It’s fundamentally a beautification of what is the floodway,” Carrillo said. “You cannot do a entire large amount in just a floodway, so you make a park out of it you make some strolling trails and beautify the area with things that are water-proof and visually pleasing.”
In 2020, Metropolis Council authorized $30,000 to develop the plan, exploration restrictions and limits on the Upper Cougar Creek place and carry out local community engagement connected to the advancement of the property. The thought strategy was produced as a starting off stage by the city’s engineering company, Freeland Turk Engineering Group and Brent Luck with the Luck Style and design Workforce.
“What we are looking at now is the effects of the engineering company’s do the job to do a preliminary web site evaluation,” Mayor Marc Bruner stated. “The [$30,000] endeavor buy features additional public outreach and suggestions as portion of that, so this is actually just the extremely starting of the process. This is wherever we’re knowing what can we establish there.”
Bruner said absolutely nothing within the approach has been finalized, and the option demonstrated is not always what will be pursued with the room.
Council Member Wanda Reetz claimed the job could assistance connect all a few retail centers in the metropolis. Its central place between Ernest Robles Way and Brodie Lane would also make it uncomplicated for inhabitants to use as a gathering location, she reported.
Council Member Rudi Rosengarten agreed and reported it could help area companies.
“I like this plan really a lot,” Rosengarten said. “I’ve considered for decades that we required to have pursuits around the retail centre to draw folks to our heart and [make them] want to remain all over and do far more procuring.”
Bruner stated the future move is gathering community feed-back on the proposal via a probable town corridor or local community assembly later on this yr.
Higher Cougar Creek is a single of a number of modest, undeveloped qualities owned by Sunset Valley. In 2020, Metropolis Council reviewed a prepare for the undeveloped Uplands tract situated south of W. Hwy. 290 around the Toney Burger Exercise Heart. Council Member Karen Medicus claimed she hopes the town will revisit past Uplands strategy programs and search at both initiatives as portion of a complete photo for the metropolis.