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Planners hear residents urge preserving Depot Park cottonwoods as 1st Street redesign focuses on parking
Summary
Planning staff presented alternative designs for Depot Park and adjacent 1st Street that aim to add parking, improve accessibility and fix stormwater problems; residents urged protecting mature cottonwoods, planting large replacements and better enforcing existing parking rules.
LARAMIE — City planning staff on Monday presented updated concepts for a 1st Street and Depot Park redesign intended to improve downtown parking, accessibility and stormwater handling, and heard strong public opposition to removing mature cottonwood trees.
At a Laramie City Planning Commission work session, a staff presenter identified outreach results — 54 online responses and 23 in-person attendees — and said the project objective from city council was to improve parking while also addressing accessibility and ponding in the park. Staff described two concept packages for the park’s north (commercial) and south (residential) sides and said the overall design could add roughly 20% more spaces than currently exist but that switching the south side from diagonal to parallel parking would result in a net parking decrease of about 5%…
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