The park behind the new Police Station will have a multi-use hard court, a spray park and play structures for children.
Town Councilors approved plans to upgrade the park behind the new Watertown Police Station Tuesday night even as a group of neighbors pleaded to take out the hard court area included in the project. Discussions about the 552 Main Street Park, which used to be known as the Browne School Playground, started in October 2010, and plans have changed since then, said Recreation Director Peter Centola. Some features disappeared, such as a street hockey rink, while others were added, including the water spray area. The hard court area, which can be used for basketball and a number of other things, was added to the plan and made it to the final plan. Other additions include a gazebo, a picnic area, new landscaping and replacement of the fence on …
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Some neighbors oppose adding a hard court area and other things to the park behind the new police station.
Neighbors of the old Browne School Playground made what could be their final pleas to limit the number of changes to be made to the park behind the new Police Station at Tuesday’s Town Council meeting. The Recreation Department has plans to add a multi-purpose hard court, a children’s play structure and a water spray area to the park at 552 Main Street, said Recreation Director Peter Centola. He hopes to start work on the project this spring. Some neighbors, including those who attended the Town Council meeting, say the changes will ruin what is now a nice little piece of green space in their neighborhood. Candy Aulenbach, who lives near the park and has followed the process since it started, said that original plans were much more simple…
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9:03 am on Friday, February 15, 2013
Gary M I think we are then in agreement with respect to my overall point. We need to manage projects better before they start(and during)(not just with respect to the Park&Rec Dept, this was sited due to the context of this article). I can't say much about the Library(or Police Station)as I was offline during that period. Of course there will be overruns and some delays(my understanding of VF was… more ›