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Commission reviews 90% Olsen Park plans; surfacing, mural and budget trade-offs highlighted

Sonoma City Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commission · December 11, 2025
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Landscape consultants presented 90% Olsen Park plans with a project budget of roughly $415,000–$430,000. Commissioners directed staff to explore a rubberized playground surfacing (estimated $62,000) as a bid alternate versus the budgeted engineered wood fiber (~$17,000) and discussed a proposed mural that could require removing and replacing several ash trees.

The Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commission reviewed 90% plans for Olsen Park on Wednesday and discussed several design decisions that affect budget, safety and public-art ambitions.

Land Culture’s Anne Baker and Christy Jarvis said the design responds to community visioning and noted the project’s current cost range of about $415,000–$430,000. Key outstanding items included playground surfacing and whether to include a mural on a textured wall, which would require removing and relocating several ash trees along the property line.

Baker presented a cost…

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