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Abilene details accessible design, timeline for two new recreation centers
Summary
City staff told the Mayor's Advisory Board for People with Disabilities that two bond-funded, single-story recreation centers at Cesar Chavez (Sears Park) and G.V. Daniels will be built to 2021 IBC accessibility standards, include small satellite libraries, and are expected to open in spring 2026 after about 12—14 months of construction.
City of Abilene parks staff presented detailed accessibility features, programming plans and a construction timeline for two new recreation centers funded by the 2023 bond.
The most immediate project, the Cesar Chavez Recreation Center in Sears Park, is "estimated to be 12,294,000" and is planned as an approximately 27,000-square-foot, one-story building, Leslie Andrews, director of parks and recreation, told the board on Jan. 14. Andrews said both centers follow the 2021 International Building Code and are designed to be single-story to avoid elevators and stairs.
The design places accessible parking and routes at both main entrances, with van-width lanes and pole-mounted signage. "All of the parking, ADA parking, entrance ramps, on ramps, curb entrances, 36 minimum, slope. All of those things are part of the parking lot, are in the design according to, standards," Andrews said. She…
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