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Revised waterfront park plans submitted
Banner Daily Update posted Sat. Aug. 11
By Pru Sowers
Banner Staff
PROVINCETOWN – A scaled-down, on-budget proposal to renovate the waterfront memorial park was submitted to the visitor services board and seems to be more on track.
An earlier plan was rejected by selectmen because the $140,000 budget was almost twice the $77,500 approved for the renovation in 2003. The new proposal is estimated to cost $78.270, however, VSB members said estimates for lighting and trash barrels could be reduced somewhat.
The VSB voted to set a Sept. 5 public hearing to receive feedback from residents on the new plan, which calls for minimal disturbance of approximately 50 memorial trees currently in the park, which runs along the bulkhead between MacMillan Pier and Fisherman’s Wharf. The earlier proposal, which called for extensive renovations, including expanding into the municipal parking lot and moving many of the trees, had drawn criticism from selectmen.
“This new plan is a good compromise,” VSB chair Rob Tosner said. “There is no change in the parking and it respects the fact the memorial trees are very important.”
“I don’t think people will be happy until we promise to leave the memorial trees where they are,” added VSB member Laurel Guadazno. “There is so much emotion attached to them.”
Landscape architect Patrick Eleey from the Atwood Group, who is designing the park plan pro bono, said the revised version makes several changes to bring the budget down to the level approved at the 2003 annual Town Meeting. A boardwalk that traverses the length of the park was changed from eight feet wide to four feet and there are fewer new plantings. In addition, the proposed widening of the park was reduced by half in some places so as not to extend into the municipal parking lot.
“Basically, everything is compressed to fit the [existing] space. We’re going to do our best to leave the [memorial] trees where they are,” Eleey said.
The revised plan calls for opening up the west end of the park and softening the east end entrance with plants to make entry into the park more inviting. Some of the plant beds would be lowered to open up the view to the harbor and a boardwalk would be installed. A section next to the old gas dock would be paved with memorial bricks and benches would be scattered throughout.
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Aug 9th, 2007