Tiburon parks board scales back Cypress Hollow upgrades

Tiburon is scaling back its redesign of Cypress Hollow Park to the existing play structures, dropping the perimeter sidewalk that neighbors objected to and slashing its $2.5 million price tag.

David Eshoo, Tiburon’s Public Works engineering manager and the parks commission’s staff liaison, told the Parks, Open Space & Trails Commission Sept. 15 that the new scope is limited to upgrading the play structures within their current footprints, making an accessible connection between the play areas and improving the grass where needed. Nothing else in the park would be touched. That rules out the larger play areas parents had pressed for; any new equipment has to fit the space that is there.

Santa Rosa-based Carlile Macy, which is designing the upgrades, sent the town a revised plan the day of the meeting.

Eshoo tied the pivot to what the town’s other parks are costing: the Bel Aire play area, projected just north of $1 million, and the former sanitation ponds site near McKegney Green, which designers put at about $3.7 million.

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