Some preliminary Mexico Parks and Recreation survey results have been released and show most respondents want to go with the cheaper cost at Tyronn Lue Park.
The city sent out the survey a few …
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Some preliminary Mexico Parks and Recreation survey results have been released and show most respondents want to go with the cheaper cost at Tyronn Lue Park.
The city sent out the survey a few months ago to ask several questions including where an entrance for a parking lot for Tyronn Lue Park should be located. The two choices are an entrance that comes in off of Green Boulevard or a much more expensive and complicated entrance that would come in off of Tyronn Lue Boulevard.
The difference in cost is significant. The entrance that would come in off of Tyronn Lue Boulevard is considered more of a neighborhood street as opposed to Green Boulevard that is a main thoroughfare of the city. The Green Boulevard project would cost about $30,000 compared to $110,000 for the neighborhood entrance. The cost estimates are also old and will be higher with inflation once a plan is approved.
Of all the respondents to the question about 83 percent picked the Green Boulevard entrance over 17 percent who want to see the entrance come in through the neighborhood.
“That’s a big split,” Parks and Recreation Director Chad Shoemaker said. Usually, you get a certain amount on each side and sometimes even a third position that’s significant.”
Getting to a final recommendation for the city council isn’t as simple as looking at the numbers presented. Shoemaker said additional data that will better help answer the question is still coming. The city has yet to receive the numbers broken down by block. Shoemaker said if a significant number of folks from the neighborhood want the entrance to come in off of Tyronn Lue Boulevard they will have some deliberating to do. Shoemaker said it will be hard to tell the other 83 percent they’re going a different direction.
“What kind of response from that neighborhood is enough of a response to do that?” Shoemaker asked. “Is it 90 percent, is it 80, is it 70, is it 60 that you’re willing to tell the other 80 percent that we’re not going to take their advice because we’re going to do it the other way because that’s what the neighborhood wants?”
One board member told Shoemaker that some people from the neighborhood told them they didn’t want the entrance in the neighborhood because of increased traffic. Shoemaker said that’s the reason they do the survey.
“If it’s significantly different than the rest of the community then I think we need to have some serious discussions about how we can drill down farther,” Shoemaker said.
