Tiburon seeks savings as ponds park estimate reaches $3.7 million

Tiburon parks officials are looking for ways to bring down the cost of a park at the former sanitation-ponds site near McKegney Green, where the projected construction price has climbed to $3.7 million.

The Parks, Open Space & Trails Commission asked designers Sept. 15 to reduce the cost of a lawn, price an option for one beach volleyball court instead of two and find savings in a $360,000 shade structure, among other changes to the 60%-complete design. A 60% set fixes a project’s layout and materials and is detailed enough to price, but it is not the final construction drawings.

The meeting followed an informal, hourlong feedback session at which consultants from Mill Valley-based park designers RHAA Landscape Architecture & Planning fielded questions about the park’s design as it stood.

Commissioners also asked the designers to determine whether the proposed adjustable basketball hoops would be strong enough to withstand players hanging on them; to paint the proposed ball wall so it blends into its surroundings; to consider removing some seats closer to McKegney Green; to replace the extended stone seating along the site’s banks with groups of stone seats; and to consider driftwood instead of bike gates on the pedestrian-only curve that connects the Old Rail Trail to the multiuse path in front of the Richardson Bay Sanitary District.

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