Add citizens to park team

Sat., March 21, 2015

As excited as I am at the upcoming improvements to Riverfront Park, I was alarmed by the recent article “City team will set theme for Riverfront Park design.” According to the article, “The design team will likely consist of landscape architects, urban designers and engineers.”

I hope that citizens as well as technocrats will have a seat at the table. The park is also a place with tremendous historical resources, for instance, and it would be far too easy for well-meaning but historically uninformed team members to push some “improvements” that would destroy a historic site.

Similarly, the team should include a tribal representative, community members and someone from the business community. This important work needs input from all the relevant stakeholders of Riverfront Park.

Larry Cebula

Spokane

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