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Mariemont council hears detailed Dogwood Park update; tot lot faces $150,000–$200,000 shortfall
Summary
Village zoning officer Rod Holloway told council the baseball fields and loop trail are under budget but the planned tot lot likely needs an additional $150,000–$200,000. Council discussed shifting savings and pursuing HUD, community project funds and a Land and Water Conservation Fund match.
Village zoning officer Rod Holloway told the Village of Mariemont council that work at Dogwood Park is progressing but the project’s top-lot playground — the “tot lot” — will need additional funding to meet its original design.
“We’re under our budgeted amount that we had planned for the baseball fields, so much so that we also were able to add in a change order completion of the loop trail, all for about $637,000,” Holloway said. He later estimated the tot lot was “probably a 150 to $200,000 short” of the current base plan.
Holloway said contractor Team All Sports has been on-site since August but has been less productive in recent weeks after a heavy snowstorm; he said the…
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