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Council drops Pilot Knoll cabin plan after CMAR review, directs limited park improvements
Summary
Following a construction-management-at-risk cost review, councilmembers decided not to proceed with a planned cabin project at Pilot Knoll Park and directed staff to move forward with a gatehouse, day‑use and boat‑ramp improvements and RV restroom renovations.
Highland Village City Council members reviewed a construction-management-at-risk (CMAR) preconstruction budget Oct. 28 and directed staff to proceed with limited upgrades at Pilot Knoll Park but not to build the proposed overnight cabin units.
Phil (parks staff) presented the CMAR cost estimates and design review, telling council that a modular septic design for cabins priced to serve 16 units would be about $173,550 for engineering and that total cabin and related infrastructure estimates under the CMAR exercise were approximately $3.4 million. He also presented an alternative: a city-maintained package plant for the park and showed a separate estimated total of about $4.7 million for the combined…
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