Cathedral City is making progress on its plans for a brand new downtown canine park, which can even embrace pickleball courts.
How a lot money was authorised for the challenge?
The council voted 4-0 on Wednesday to approve a $413,376 settlement with David Volz Design for plans, specs and environmental paperwork for the park, which features a 10% contingency. Councilmember Raymond Gregory was absent.
Where will the canine park be situated?
The park might be situated on the web site of the previous Second Street Park on Buddy Rogers Avenue, subsequent to Fire Station 411. The metropolis council authorised an settlement with Verde Design in November to create a conceptual design plan, which is now accomplished and contains fenced areas for small and huge dogs with shading, benches, consuming fountains with pet bowls, a walking path, and 4 pickleball courts.
Why will there be pickleball courts at a canine park?
Andres Perez, an assistant civil engineer for the town, mentioned the courts had been added to supply the chance for pickleball in Cathedral City and entice extra group members.
“Now, with the concept plan in place, it set the foundation for staff to move forward into the next phase in budgeting for the design of this park,” he mentioned. “And with the design, we will get the engineer’s estimate, which is a much more finer detailed, line-item-by-line-item estimate in comparison to the rough order of magnitude cost estimate.”
What’s the estimated whole challenge cost?
Verde Design’s tough order of magnitude, which is an estimated challenge cost, is simply over $2.4 million, Perez mentioned.
City Manager Charlie McClendon mentioned having the challenge design will assist the town get grants for the challenge.
“(The documents) will be 100% our final plan specs and estimates. So when a grant becomes available, we can let the grantee know, ‘Hey, this downtown dog park is ready to be built, all we need now is the funding,’” Perez mentioned. “The project can be done a lot faster than starting from just the design phase.”
He added that David Volz Design expects the plans to take 9 to 11 months to finish.
This challenge comes on the tail of Panorama Dog Park, which opened in May 2022 and is situated inside Panorama Park.
Ani Gasparyan covers the western Coachella Valley cities of Desert Hot Springs and Cathedral City. Reach her at [email protected].
