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People’s Town residents press committee to pause vault-park project and release design-build contract
Summary
People’s Town residents asked the committee to pause a watershed vault-and-park project and release the design-build contract after they say the plan was changed without adequate community engagement.
Community members from the People’s Town neighborhood asked the committee to pause construction on a flood control vault and revised park design tied to the Custer Avenue relief project.
Matt Rinker, president of the People’s Town Neighborhood Association, said the park’s current design forbids planting “any substantial trees” while removing more than a dozen mature trees and places a combined sewer and stormwater vault beneath…
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