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Boise parks staff outline roughly $1.4 million Liberty Park upgrades, including permanent restroom and accessible playground
Summary
Parks staff presented a scaled master-plan update for Liberty Park that would replace an aging playground, add ADA-accessible paths and a permanent year-round restroom and is budgeted at just under $1.5 million from impact fees and general funds; a potential grant could expand the scope.
The Boise Parks and Recreation Commission heard a presentation on a proposed update to the Liberty Park master plan that would fund a new accessible playground, permanent restroom, ADA-compliant pathways and other site improvements at the nine-acre neighborhood park, staff said.
Alicia Records, parks resources superintendent, said the park serves about 1,000 residents (roughly 433 households within a 10-minute walk) and the existing playground dates to before the 1990s and is showing wear. "The project budget is about 1 and a half million dollars just shy," Records said, adding the department is drawing on impact fees and general funds and is pursuing possible additional grant money that has not yet been awarded.
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