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Decentralized System: What does this mean for the Riverfront? Focuses new programming along the riverfront in the downtown core, between I-380 and 12th Street. Areas of the riverfront beyond the downtown are naturalized with trails and prairie plantings.

Seminole Valley

Downtown Facilities

• City promenade with outdoor dining and cafés • Farmer's Market • Event Plaza on May's Island

Ellis Park

Downtown

Urban Fishery

Naturalized Areas

• 80% of the Greenway is naturalized. City Promenade

Wetlands

• Prairie plantings, river's edge naturalization and the creation of wetlands.

Capital Cost: $101,700,000 Total Operational Cost: $361,100 New Operational Cost: $169,250 Advantages • Incorporates naturalized riverfront into the regional trail and ecological system. • Creates some new riverfront access with event space.

Event Space

O Ave

Naturalized Greenway

Naturalized Greenway

Disadvantages

Boat Dock Plaza at Time Check

• Does not make the riverfront and Greenway a regional recreational destination. F Ave

Boating • Expands Ellis Harbor facility to include public landing and boat launch. • Expands facility to include boating and fish stocking program.

Centralized System: What does this mean for the Riverfront? Focuses new program and shift some existing park uses to the riverfront to create a regional attraction.

Riverfront Programming • 7500- person with permanent and lawn seating. • City promenade at downtown core with outdoor dining and cafés.

Seminole Valley

• Fountain/ event plaza/ ice rink on May's Island.

Ellis Harbor Ellis Park Time Check Greenway

• Inflatable dam near the 8th Avenue Bridge creates a recreational pool downtown for boating.

Downtown

• Urban Fishery expands to include boating and fish stocking programs.

Landfill Urban Fishery

Fountain / Event Plaza / Ice Rink

City Promenade

Greenway

• New outdoor recreation fields in Time Check Greenway and Seminole Valley.

Boat Docks

• Temporary beaches for volleyball and boat launch.

Amphitheater with Fixed and Lawn seating

• 70% developed/ 30% naturalized Greenway

Capital Cost: $259,200,000 Total Operational Cost: $659,150

Pedestrian Bridge

New Operational Cost: $378,900 Advantages • Makes the riverfront a signature destination for the City of Cedar Rapids and the region. • Accommodates a variety of programming, appealing to a wide range of users, at the riverfront.

Disadvantages

O Ave Boat Dock

• Draws resources away from dispersed neighborhood parks and facilities.

Soccer Fields

Plaza at Time Check Baseball Parking BMX / Skatepark

F Ave

Hybrid System: What does this mean for the Riverfront? This option consolidates recreational amenities into a series of parks to serve as multi-neighborhood centers. These "cluster" parks would be Ellis, Cherry Hill, Jones, Bever, and Noelridge with a potential future cluster near Kirkwood to serve the growing south side.

Downtown Facilities • 5000 person grass amphitheater • City promenade with outdoor dining and cafés • Farmer's Market Flexible Plaza

• Event Space

City Promenade

Naturalized Greenway

Ushers Ferry Ellis Park

Boat Docks Grass Amphitheater

Downtown

Boating and Fishing • Installs a rubber, inflatable Urban Fishery

Active recreation • Creates new soccer complex,

dam near 8th Avenue to

camping facilities and a public boat

create a new recreational pool

launch at Seminole Valley.

downtown. • Expands Urban Fishery facility

• Creates temporary beaches for volleyball and boat launch.

to include boat rental and fish

Capital Cost: $175,200,000 Total Operational Cost: $500,190 New Operational Cost: $219,940

stocking program.

Naturalized Areas • 50% Naturalized Greenway. • Prairie plantings, river's edge

Advantages

Disadvantages

• Does not fully take advantage of • Provides a mix of programmed and naturalized opportunities to develop communitywide amenities in the Greenway. spaces along the riverfront.

naturalization and the creation of wetlands at Time Check Greenway and between downtown and the Landfill.

Ushers Ferry • Increases revenue-generation with a rental facility for events and weddings.

Advantages and Disadvantages of the Options Noelridge Park

Noelridge Park Ushers Ferry Seminole Valley

Squaw Creek

Shaver Park Daniels Park Ellis Park

Shawnee Park

Ellis Park

Bever Park Time Check

Downtown

Time Check Greenway

Ambroz

Bender Cherry Hill Park

Ellis Seminole Harbor Valley

Apache Park

Jones Park

Van Vechten Park

Cherry Hill Park

Seminole Valley

Ellis Park

Bever Park

Downtown Cherry Hill Park Landfill Urban Fishery

Urban Fishery

Jones Park Beverly Park

Jones Park Future (based on growth)

Option 1: Decentralized

Option 2: Centralized

Option 3: Hybrid

Advantages:

Advantages:

Advantages:

• Evenly distributed neighborhood parks throughout the City.

• Creates a regional destination riverfront with waterfront activities for a variety of users.

• A naturalized Greenway contributes to passive recreation and regional ecological systems.

• Puts the greatest amount of park amenity and indoor recreation in the heart of the City, accessible to all residents by an improved trail system.

Disadvantages: • Does not draw people and resources to the riverfront, downtown and city center. • Dispersal of parks and facilities causes duplication in staff, maintenance and facilities, increasing operating costs. • Focuses more on quantity and distribution than quality of experience.

Bever Park

Downtown

Apache Park

Cedar Valley Park Urban Fishery

Beverly Park

Daniels Park

Noelridge Park

Disadvantages: • Investment in the riverfront and new Greenway requires less investment in neighborhood parks. • Higher capital cost from increased new programmed parks on the riverfront.

• Resources are distributed more evenly between the new Greenway and neighborhood parks that serve each area of the city. • Indoor Recreation Facilities are well-distributed to service multiple neighborhoods. • Trails encourage connections between cluster parks.

Disadvantages: • Partial dispersal of parks and facilities causes some duplication in staff, maintenance and facilities, increasing operating costs.

Comparison of the Programming in the Options Parks and Open Space Features

Option 1: Decentralized

Remove parcels that have no recreational value

X

Maintain existing ballfields and sports complexes

X

Add baseball and softball tournament facilities to Tuma

Riverfront Option 2: Centralized X

Option 3: Hybrid

Features

Amphitheater

City promenade with dining and cafés

X X

Activity on May's Island

Improve existing skate park at Riverside

X

Destination play space at riverfront

Convert areas that have little or no recreational value to low-mow and prairie plantings

X

New active recreation at Seminole Valley Potential repurpose or landbank of Tuma Move dispersed or defunct facilities to Greenway

X

X

Boating Fishing

X

X

X

X Flexible lawn space

Option 2: Centralized

Option 3: Hybrid

7500- person amphitheater with formal and lawn seating

5000- person amphitheater with grass terraced seating

X

Spray fountain in Flexible plaza summer/ skate rink space in winter

X

X X

Facilities

X

X X

Gymnasiums

Rental facility for events/ weddings

At Ushers Ferry

At Ushers Ferry

X

X

Indoor lap pool

X

X

Temporary beaches and boat launch

X

Aerobics

Dog Park on riverfront

X

Rock climbing

Skate Park/ BMX at riverfront

X

Dance

X

Explore possibility of new southern cluster park for future

X

High quality tournament facilities at Seminole Valley, Noelridge, Ellis New dog park at Bever and Cherry Hill, skate park at Jones and Bever

X

X

X

X

Vegetate landfill Privatize Ushers Ferry Percentage Naturalized Area

Improve / replace Bender, Ambroz, Time Check (74,000 sq. ft. total)

245,000 square foot Multigenerational Community Life Center at Ellis; existing facilities repurposed

150,000 square foot Community Recreation Center at Noelridge; existing facilities repurposed Neighborhood Facilities at Cherry Hill and Jones

Gymnasium Space

Program Rooms

2

8

5

X

X

10,000 - 12,000 sq. ft.

5,000 - 7,000 sq. ft.

3 lanes x 25 yd

8 lanes x 25 yd

6 lanes x 25 yd

Competition pool

50m x 25 yd

Indoor family activity pool

X

X

1 (sub-dividable)

1 (sub-dividable)

1

1

stand-alone feature

in gymnasium

1

1

1

Arts and Crafts

1 (sub-dividable)

2 (sub-dividable)

1 (sub-dividable)

General program rooms and Social and cultural programming rooms

4 (sub-dividable)

6-8

6

1 (sub-dividable) w/ stage

1 (sub-dividable) w/ stage

Creative play w/ indoor playground and childcare

Childcare only

Older adults partner

Leased space

Shared space

Wellness partner

Leased space

Shared space

Community safety partner

Leased space

Leased space

Community early learning partner

Leased space

Central café

Leased space

Party rental room (by pool)

X

Neighborhood Cluster parks at Ellis, Cherry Hill, Jones, Bever, Noelridge

Option 3: Hybrid

Health and fitness

Multi-purpose fields at Time Check Greenway

X

Option 2: Centralized

Indoor track

Active recreation at Seminole Valley X

Option 1: Decentralized

Additional Facilities Programming partnerships at schools or neighborhood centers

X X

Features

X

Enhanced signage and wayfinding system

Lower mowing schedule for neighborhood Parks

Option 1: Decentralized

X

Maintain one dog facility at Squaw Creek

Adopt-a-park program for maintenance in new residential development

Indoor Recreation

X

X

X

X 80%

30%

1 (sub-dividable)

50%

Multi-use room and stage with catering kitchen Creative play and child care