With all of the input from community members in hand, the park planners, which includes Metro staff and designers at Knot Studio, are creating a single design. The design will combine elements of the three earlier designs, so it will be new but familiar.
The biggest changes to the next design will be to the shoreline. In the first designs, the locations for habitat, beaches and the dock were rough approximates. A study by the team designing the in-water cleanup will provide greater clarity on what the shoreline will be like after the cleanup. This will help Metro understand where it would be best to place park elements, like a beach or dock, and where to develop in-water habitat for salmon and lamprey.
As with the initial designs, Metro’s nature park planners will work with cleanup and conservation staff at Metro and the agencies working on the cleanups projects to make sure the park and the nature elements of the design are achievable. Then Metro will share the design with the six tribes who have informally consulted on the nature park, making sure the design is meeting the goals the tribes have laid out for the project, especially the importance of in-water habitat and connecting to the river.
Then we’ll come back to the community to get a last round of input, mostly making sure we successfully created a nature park that reflects what community members asked for.
Metro’s looking forward to sharing the design with you later this year!
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