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Park board leans toward smaller Westwood Park layout after engineer estimate tops $300,000

Park Advisory Board · April 28, 2026
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City parks staff presented two layouts for Westwood Park courts and a preliminary engineer estimate that places Option A between about $260,000 and $310,000; board members favored Option A pending utility and soil checks and a June site visit.

Jerome, the parks staff member presenting to the Park Advisory Board, described two layout options for new courts at Westwood Park and gave a preliminary engineer27s cost estimate that put the lower-cost design in the mid-to-high hundreds of thousands.

Option A would place a half basketball court and a combined tennis/pickleball court on the park27s west-side lots, with fencing between courts, a concrete walk-up and an infiltration pond to manage stormwater. Option B would place full-size basketball and tennis/pickleball courts side-by-side, but Jerome said that arrangement would require more asphalt, additional access gates and extra…

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