Thanks so much to those who attended! The information on our
part of the Parks Plan was not until about midway through the meeting
so we had the opportunity to hear about a variety of things. Of note
were the mini-grants awarded and to which groups. We will be eligible
to apply for these next year as we will have attained non-profit status
by then. All of the groups that applied for this year were fully funded
with money to spare so that was exciting news! We also heard
presentations on the city-wide water management for irrigation, the
arborist who has been planning our parkway updated the group on the
tree program in West Sac - which is highly successful and has planted
thousands of trees in the last 4 years! Then Dave Shpak gave a
presentation on the parks plan and our park was part of this. The MDP is part of the central artery for the city's bike plan so we featured
prominently in the presentation (also because 6 of us were sitting
there!). He also gave us a map of exactly where the trees will be: 1. There will be a double row of trees on the part of the main drain canal that parallels Marshall Rd with the path winding between. 2. Due to utility constraints, there will only be a single row of trees along the part of the main drain canal that parallels Venice St with the path running next to that, but with access points to all the cul-de-sacs and both bridges The bad news is that because the cost of our parkway is turning out to be so high, they cannot tack it on to the Patwin Park project as they had planned - BUT, they still must do the mitigation with the 300 trees so this only delays our parkway until December, which, while not ideal, is certainly better than some vague date in the future. If you are interested, below is a link to the Parks Development page which was most of Shpak's presentation: http://www.cityofwestsacramento.org/cityhall/departments/pcs/facilities/parksdevelopment.pdf |
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Re-Cap of Commission Meetingposted Oct 22, 2008 9:48 AM by Site Administrator |