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Maple Valley council removes peninsula recreation‑center option, preserves disc golf course
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Summary
At a Nov. 3 study session, the Maple Valley City Council unanimously voted to remove a proposed recreation center option from the Lake Wilderness Master Plan peninsula and directed that the area remain a disc golf course; the council also reviewed the PROS plan and extended the meeting to 9:30 p.m.
Maple Valley — At a Nov. 3 special study session, the Maple Valley City Council voted unanimously to remove the option of placing a recreation center on the peninsula in the Lake Wilderness Master Plan and directed that the peninsula remain a disc golf course. The decision was recorded during a presentation on the master plan at Lake Wilderness Lodge.
Parks & Recreation Director/Assistant City Manager Dave Johnson and Deputy Parks Director Robert Eaton introduced the Lake Wilderness Master Plan discussion; Clayton Beaudoin, a consultant with SiteWorkshop Landscape Architecture, provided the consultant presentation. The council’s recorded action removes the recreation‑center option from the peninsula and retains the site’s use for disc golf.
The council also heard a presentation on the city’s Parks, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) Plan from Dannielle Wilson of BerryDunn. During that discussion Councilmember Victoria Schroff moved — and Councilmember Syd Dawson seconded — a motion to extend the meeting to 9:30 p.m.; the extension motion carried 7‑0.
Public comment during the meeting included a written submission from David Larsen (Maple Valley) that was filed for the record. Betsy Bradsby, a 30‑year Lake Wilderness resident and chair of the Lake Wilderness Advisory Commission, said multiple elements of the master plan raised concerns and asked that those concerns be reflected in the record. Steven Thurin, a member of the Parks & Recreation Commission who worked on the master plan with the commission, told the council that questions about park capacity — “how many people we want at the park” — are decisions for the council to make and thanked councilmembers for their time on the topic.
Councilmembers briefly reviewed and assigned the city’s legislative priorities earlier in the meeting; the minutes note only that the priorities were reviewed and assigned without recording further detail. City Clerk Andrew Dacuag closed the session by announcing the next regular business meeting for Nov. 17, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. at Lake Wilderness Lodge. The study session adjourned at 9:06 p.m.