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Curtin Creek Community Park to begin construction in spring 2025 after phased design and grant funding
Summary
Clark County parks staff presented the Curtin Creek Community Park plan, funding sources and a two-phase timetable. The phase-one build includes synthetic athletic fields, a large play area, restrooms and trails; construction bids were favorable and a groundbreaking is expected in April 2025.
Lindy Wallach, park and trails planner with Clark County Parks and Nature, briefed the Curtin Creek Neighborhood Association on the Curtin Creek Community Park project and county parks funding and planning. She said Curtin Creek will be developed in two phases because inflation and available funds mean the county cannot complete the entire park at once.
Wallach described phase one as including the southern of two synthetic athletic fields (rugby/soccer), a large accessible nature play area with a restroom building and a reservable shelter, trails to wetland overlooks, and parking accessed from Northeast 70th Avenue near Vancouver Fire Station No. 7. She said the northern field may not be built in phase one, but the county will design and permit it later as phase two. "Everything in the park is going to be developed in phase 1 except for the northern field," she said.
Wallach said funding for the project includes park impact fees, real estate excise tax shared with public works, the county levy that established the Greater Clark Park District (approved in February 2005), and additional grant funding from the Recreation and Conservation Office. She described a sizable RCO grant and in the presentation said the county is "receiving 808 hundred and $50,000 to support the development of this park," and noted the project team is reviewing contractor qualifications after favorable bids.
She presented the concept plan shown to the community in a March open house: parking and courts at the western entrance, two large synthetic fields to the east (the southern field to be built in phase one, with potential lighting), a multi-part play area with climbing features and accessible elements, restroom facilities with four toilets/compartments, and trail overlooks toward wetland areas. Wallach said most landscape plantings will use native, drought-tolerant species and that wetland and natural-area parcels are subject to mitigation and monitoring; some wetland areas will remain closed to the public until mitigation obligations lapse.
Wallach said project bids came in favorably the week of the meeting, the county planned to move into contract negotiations, and construction is expected to start in spring 2025 with a groundbreaking planned for April. The county hopes to complete construction by the end of 2025 and to open the park in spring 2026, but Wallach cautioned that newly planted turf and trees may need time to establish before all areas are open. She invited neighbors to sign a contact sheet for updates and to attend an April 24 open house on a separate nearby natural-area project.
