Sedona staff present interior plans, programming and restroom design for Ranger Station Park

City of Sedona public works and development staff reviewed interior alteration plans for the Ranger Station house and adjacent historic barn and solicited input from the Historic Preservation Commission on Jan. (date not specified). The presentation described the buildings' intended uses, landscaping and public amenities, and a restroom design planned to be bid in the near term.

The plans call for the house to be climate-controlled and to include a small gallery or “entry gallery” to display historic photos, widened accessible doors and a restroom connection to water and sewer along the house’s backside. "We plan that this will be climate controlled," Steve Mertes, director of community development, said while reviewing the floor plan. Commissioners were told a former large closet will be opened up for counter and serving space and that a screened-in porch area now enclosed will be used as an additional meeting space.

Mertes and Public Works staff described the barn as a flexible multipurpose space; the project team proposed removing a non-original interior wall to create a larger open area while retaining a diagonal shear wall noted in the structural review. Larry…