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Council backs moving Rudy Loop Park design to construction drawings, favors surface parking
Summary
After reviewing resilience, staging and cost tradeoffs, council supported Parks & Rec’s recommendation to proceed with the Rudy Loop Park design using surface parking (saving roughly $28 million compared with a parking deck) and to pursue a conservancy and capital campaign to offset TIP funds.
Parks & Recreation staff presented the Rudy Loop Park final design and asked council for direction to move to construction documents. Michael Kirschman and design partners described the site strategy: raising the park elevation to boardwalk level (≈48 inches) to reduce flood vulnerability, removing about half the site’s impervious surface to reduce heat‑island effects, and creating overlooks, a jetty walk and programming areas…
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