{"id":1312335,"date":"2019-07-11T21:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T03:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/sayre-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2019-07-11T21:32:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T03:32:00","slug":"some-residents-question-need-for-sayre-park-enhancements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/some-residents-question-need-for-sayre-park-enhancements\/","title":{"rendered":"Some residents question need for Sayre Park enhancements"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Park goers enjoy the swing set at Sayre Park.<\/strong>
Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

On Thursday night, residents attended a second community open house where a project consultant team unveiled enhancements possibly heading Sayre Park\u2019s way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that we are going in the right direction,\u201d Project Consultant Pedro Campos said to the roughly 50 people in attendance at the community center.<\/p>\n

Campos, a principal landscape architect and land planner with Zehren and Associates out of Avon, said that based upon feedback from residents, \u201cthe community really likes the park as is.\u201d<\/p>\n

With plenty of diagrams on display Campos delivered a short presentation, which zeroed in on the park\u2019s four quadrants and the possible changes in store for them.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt feels like we are spending money here and money there. \u2026 And, then when there are potholes we don\u2019t have money.\u201d\u2014 Cheryl Cain, Glenwood Springs resident who has lived across from Sayre Park for close to three decades<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n

NORTHWEST QUADRANT<\/h3>\n

Wanting to open up more space, the Sayre Park improvement scenario called for the removal of the park\u2019s gazebo.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople like openness,\u201d said Andrew McGregor with veraCity, a Glenwood Springs-based land use planning and project management firm. McGregor, another member of the consultant team, explained how residents were \u201cloud and clear\u201d about their desire to see the existing amenities within the park improved. Additionally, the plan called for adding another basketball court as well as more handicapped parking.<\/p>\n

NORTHEAST QUADRANT<\/h3>\n

Based upon feedback from the first Sayre Park open house in May, as well as an online survey, park users wanted to see the sledding slope preserved. According to Campos, sledding remains the number one activity in Sayre Park during the winter months. While the preferred scenario kept the sledding hill intact, it did call for the complete removal and replacement of the park\u2019s playground.<\/p>\n

The new playground would include separate play areas for 3- to 5-year-olds and 5- to 12-year-olds.<\/p>\n

Cheryl Cain, who has lived in Glenwood Springs across from Sayre Park for close to three decades, wondered why the park needed any enhancements outside of safer stairs and questioned the city\u2019s spending priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt feels like we are spending money here and money there. \u2026 And, then when there are potholes we don\u2019t have money,\u201d Cain said following Thursday\u2019s meeting. \u201cI\u2019ve lived across from the park for 28 years. I know about the park, but nobody ever came to my door.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just don\u2019t think there is that much at the park that needs a lot of money thrown at it,\u201d added Cain. \u201cThis is overkill. It is more than we need to do at that park.\u201d<\/p>\n

SOUTHEAST QUADRANT<\/h3>\n

Perhaps the most controversial idea was the possibility of installing artificial turf onto the softball field\u2019s infield. Campos explained that such an installation would facilitate other uses for the field other than just softball. The plan also called for dugout renovations and the preservation of trees throughout Sayre Park.<\/p>\n

SOUTHWEST QUADRANT<\/h3>\n

\u201cWe have heard loud and clear about the need for pickleball courts,\u201d Campos explained. That being said, in addition to adding a new tennis court, the preferred plan envisioned converting an existing one into four pickleball courts.<\/p>\n

Parks and Recreation Director Brian Smith said that the city and project consultant team were taking a \u201cdeliberate, slow and thoughtful approach,\u201d to the Sayre Park planning process.<\/p>\n

The project consultant team said that it was still gathering input from stakeholders ahead of going before City Council, possibly in August.<\/p>\n

mabennett@postindependent.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Park goers enjoy the swing set at Sayre Park.Chelsea Self \/ Post Independent On Thursday night, residents attended a second community open house where a project consultant team unveiled enhancements possibly heading Sayre Park\u2019s way. \u201cI hope that we are going in the right direction,\u201d Project Consultant Pedro Campos said to the roughly 50 people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1312335","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 13:56:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}