Severance reviews Phase 5 concept plan for Community Park, parks team seeks council input on layout, parking and pickleball placement

At a May 13 Severance Town Council work session, landscape architects presented a consolidated concept plan for Phase 5 of the town’s Community Park and asked the council for direction on layout, parking, circulation, shade and whether to site pickleball courts within the phase or reserve room for future expansion.

The plan, prepared by Ayers Associates and shown by David Lam, would keep the existing soccer field, add a large multi-age playground, a flex event lawn that could host temporary stages, restroom/shade combinations, peripheral parking to keep interior spaces pedestrian-friendly and a UCHealth-funded two-part fitness court with a shade structure. Lam said the design favors parking around the outside and activity spaces inside so people “can move around in the interior of the space and not cross traffic” often.

Council and staff questioned several operational details. Mayor Pro Tem Vandermark and others pressed whether the primary vehicle access from Weld County Road 23 should remain full…