Let's Talk About Spriggs Farm Park - Flawed Design, Zoom Online Meeting 2/4/21

[Lisa]

Hello all,

Heads up! There are upcoming design review meetings via Zoom for Spriggs Farm Park and a proposed new water access point on Harness Creek in Quiet Waters Park. Both designs are deeply flawed and do not serve the paddling community. It is important for you to attend these virtual meetings and provide critical input and feedback to improve the plans for both Spriggs and Quiet Waters Park.

The Spriggs Farm Park Zoom meeting is on Thursday, February 4, 2021 at 6:30 pm.

The Spriggs Farm Park meeting announcement: https://www.aacounty.org/departments...eting-calendar(Look for Spriggs Farm Park Shoreline Protection in the project list.) Click through for the plans and Zoom meeting link.

The Spriggs Farm Park plan, which we believe to be commissioned by a third party, is a C- plan. It has a steep access path with a mulch surface. The path will be immediately hard to use for anything with wheels and will erode in short order. The flawed Spriggs plan also does not accurately document existing conditions. The proposed plan mislabels the existing access road as a "dirt walking path" and does not show the existing parking, loading, rigging and picnic areas. The final plan tacitly eliminates public access by omitting the basic requirement of public access - an access road, parking, unloading area, rigging area, picnic area - from the final plan. The county must abandon this C- plan for Spriggs and use the acclaimed A+ Homeport Farm Park as a model to make Spriggs the best park for all.

I hope to see you at the Spriggs Zoom meeting. Also, anyone who lives in District 5 and is willing to contact your Councilwoman, Amanda Fiedler, please message me. County Council District map available here: https://www.aacounty.org/boards-and-...s-by-district/

Thanks

Lisa

[Lisa]

The Spriggs online design meeting is tonight at 6:30 pm. Please attend if you've ever used Spriggs or want to use Spriggs.

The "erosion control" design is terrible. It was commissioned without input from the paddling community, without input from the windsports community. We don't know who commissioned it. The county's been doing a great job on water access projects and then this comes along . . . we've already asked them to scrap the plan and use Homeport as a model and I don't think we got through.

Look for Spriggs Farm Shoreline Protection on this list: https://www.aacounty.org/departments...eting-calendar and then click through this link at 6:30 pm to join the meeting: https://aacounty.zoom.us/j/848402635...dSVVFCUHM4dz09

Again, if you are going to attend only one design meeting this year, please attend this one. The good news is that you're not on camera. You will probably use the chat function to make comments and ask questions.

See you there!

Lisa