ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – Several parks and trails could be getting a great deal needed facelifts now after prop 5, the park bond, turned into passed through Anchorage electorate within the April election.
The park’s bond totals nearly $four million for 13 tasks in numerous areas throughout the town. Park officials say these communities truly rallied together to voice their visions for their community parks.
Beverly Sullivan has lived inside the Airport Heights region for almost 41 years now. She added her youngsters to Tikishla Park when they were little, and now she brings her grandkids. The word that the park bond that she voted in favor of exceeded was welcome news to Sullivan.
“I’d like to see it as a meeting for kids to get together and play right clean a laugh, and get them far away from all of the laptop video games and video games,” said Sullivan. “You do not see the youngsters out inside the summer such as you used to years ago.”
Tikishla Park is about to peer $four hundred,000 in upgrades as part of that bond. Those renovations include an inclusive playground, a brand new blanketed picnic place, and up to date protection functions. It’s also welcome news to the new mom, Katie Reilly, who is lived in the Airport Heights region for 3 years and also voted ‘sure’ for the park bond.
“We’re a new own family, and so we’re going to be the use of that a part of the park extra frequently than we have up to date,” said Reilly. “I honestly see households come down and feature events, and so having some refuge appears like an exquisite idea. Any kind of improvements that they have got to the playground system and the lighting and the safety might be notable.”
Elderberry Park downtown is some other one on the listing with $500,000 going towards a grasp plan for upgrades there, together with new and improved get right of entry to to the coastal path and an up to date, inclusive playground.
“It’s not very safe proper now with bikes coming down the hill next to the playground, and so before we installed a stunning new playground asset, we want to ensure that get admission to to the coastal trail is sorted in a secure and welcoming way, and in a way in which traffic to Anchorage can navigate the trail machine without difficulty,” said Executive Director of the Anchorage Park Foundation, Beth Nordlund.
The Campbell Creek trail, which hasn’t visible a face elevate in almost 30 years, has $750,000 going to improvements there.
“We have bridges to attend to in that area, and in this approach too, with having those soft surface trails, it widens the trail a bit bit. Which lets in us from an iciness upkeep angle, whilst we groom the trail and set music for classic snowboarding, we have a much wider trail corridor to paintings with.”
For Beverly Sullivan and her family, those are all enhancements that are well well worth the fee.
“It’s something anyone can find the money for,” said Sullivan. “You do not have to pay — nicely our taxes of route, however, it’s well really worth it. You’re now not charged a fee, everyone can do it, and go to it and manage to pay for it, and it is nice.”
