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Councilman Slonick: residents want restrooms, water play and pavilion in Stevens Park redesign
Summary
Councilman Slonick told the parks commission that residents' top priorities for Stevens Park are restrooms, water play, a pavilion, native landscaping and trails, and he flagged parking as a key design concern; staff will continue to refine designs with MSA and seek council input by mid-August.
Councilman Slonick told Dayton City’s parks commission on Aug. 3 that consultant MSA presented three preliminary designs for Stevens Park and that public input highlighted five priorities: restrooms, water play, a pavilion over the entertainment area, native landscaping and trails or playground equipment.
"The top 5 concerns of residents were restrooms, water play, some sort of a pavilion over the entertainment area, native landscaping and trails, and some sort of playground equipment," Councilman Slonick said, summarizing the consultant’s outreach and the park-commission discussions.
He and other commissioners also raised a critical operational concern: parking. Slonick said one design provided "a maximum of 70 stalls," a number several commissioners judged inadequate for events that could attract dozens or hundreds of attendees. Commissioners discussed aiming to present revised options to the City Council in time for an Aug. 12 deadline and to use the car show weekend as an opportunity to solicit additional public feedback.
Staff indicated they will keep refining the designs with MSA and coordinate with the park commission and council on next steps. No final design decision was made at the Aug. 3 meeting.
