Dog Park Friends Meet with City Staff

DOG PARK MEETING  -  OCTOBER 17, 2013

City Hall, 5^th Floor Conference Room, 1:30-2:30 PM

PRESENT

Staff:

          McCray Coates, Stormwater Services, Manager

          David Foster - Administration, Deputy Director

          Al Kopf, Park Maintenance,  Superintendent (Interim)

Jeff Moore, City Traffic Engineer          Shannon Tuch – Building Department, Interim Director

Council:  Chris Pelly

Others:

          Bob Roepnack

          Joe  Lawrence

          Tyler Martin

BOB ROEPNACK, who will provide meeting notes, has written this:

          “…met with city staff and nothing was presented by staff that would prevent a dog park at the site.”

TYLER MARTIN provides these meeting notes

Bob Roepnack, on behalf of FNADP, presented a ‘rough draft’ proposal by Brooks Engineering (attached) and led the discussion of it.   Staff gave valuable responses to all questions asked about the proposal.   Most of the meeting time was centered around Ingress/Egress.

          Positive - Traffic on Wild Cherry and not Beaverdam Road.                Parking (15 spaces) can be unpaved, except handicap                        parking.   Paved sidewalks. 

 Concerns -  Wild Cherry congestion, tight Ingress/Egress,           power pole.  Legal location of flood plain at Wild Cherry.    

Some discussion of set-back rules, sidewalk locations, sites of 20”+  trees, water lines, etc.    No discussion of environmental issues, a car every 2 minutes or the M.O.U.   

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Ed. note: the M.O.U. is a Memorandum Of Understanding anticipated to formalize an offer of land for the proposed dog park by Ark Development (developer of the Thoms Estate), and outlining some terms and conditions.  The M.O.U. was expected to be finalized in October.

Here's email addresses of City staff present at the meeting: (copy entire group to address field)

McCray Coates mcoates@ashevillenc.gov,

David Foster  dfoster@ashevillenc.gov,
Al Kopf akopf@ashevillenc.gov,

Jeff Moore  jmoore@ashevillenc.gov,

Shannon Tuch  stuch@ashevillenc.gov,
Council: Chris Pelly   chrispelly@avlcouncil.com 
 or use this address for Mayor and all of Council:   AshevilleNCCouncil@AshevilleNC.gov

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