Residents weigh updates to Tiburon ponds site park design

Parks, Open Space & Trails Commission Chair Michael Moon presents the 60%-complete design for the former sanitation ponds site near McKegney Green during a workshop Aug. 13 at Tiburon Town Hall. Moon and Commissioner Nicole Voss make up the subcommittee guiding the project, which goes back to the full commission at a special meeting Aug. 24. (Francisco Martinez / The Ark)

Residents pressed for more stone seating along the hillside and questioned whether new plantings would block water views as a Tiburon parks subcommittee presented an updated design for the former sanitation ponds site near McKegney Green.

How to fund construction also came up. David Eshoo, the town’s public works engineering manager and the subcommittee’s staff liaison, gave the group a rough estimate of more than $3 million. Tiburon residents’ earliest opportunity to approve a tax or bond for it will not come until the November 2028 election.

The subcommittee met Aug. 13 in the Community Room at Tiburon Town Hall, three days after Mill Valley-based RHAA Landscape Architecture & Planning submitted its 60%-complete design, said Parks, Open Space & Trails Commission Chair Michael Moon, who sits on the ponds subcommittee with Commissioner Nicole Voss.

Last week’s informal session will not be residents’ last chance to comment. A special parks commission meeting Aug. 24 will include discussion of the design, followed by the commission’s regular meeting Sept. 15 and a public workshop that has not been scheduled, Eshoo said in an email last week.

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