City Agrees To Have Public Discussion On Future Frazier Park Plans

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The city recently acquired a large portion of land adjacent to Frazier Park, and has grandiose plans on how to expand the park, but needs the community’s input.

“Frazier Park is a substantial amount of interest of the city’s,” said City Engineer Peter Earles. “With enough planned to go on, we need an official guiding plan for the next decade.”

Earles said with the addition of land to the park, the city is looking for ideas of what to add to the park, such as a bandstand, mini golf course, pickleball courts, and soccer fields.

“What’s some of your ideas we might want to look at to fill in the area of Frazier Park, (considering) you acquired the property to the north of the entrance road, which is where we were talking about putting the driving range now,” Earles said. “We decided we don’t want to just start throwing stuff in there without getting your at least initial concept and then we can come back to you with maybe some concept drawings and we move it around, add or delete as you have time to think about it a little more, we might come up with some ideas you might want to look at.”

Earles said it’s all part of a long range plan for future development of the park.

City Administrator Luke Grimes said one of the priorities is a new clubhouse for the golf course, which is an old building badly in need of an upgrade. He said they could “Go all out” and make it really nice, or buy a modular house and make it the clubhouse.

“Maybe a way to go about it is what would the council be comfortable spending on a clubhouse and over what period of time? Grimes added. “That would give us something to kind of work with. The sky’s the limit on how cool we could make it.”

Councilman Caleb Woods said community input would be nice.

“What do people want to see down there?” Woods said. “Because what I want to see is maybe not what you want to see. And maybe getting the Rec and school involved and what the people around want to see. It’s a great place down there, I think it could be the centerpiece of our community.”

Councilman Terry Dimmitt said the more people involved, the more benefit for the community.

“The more they can interact down there and use the facility and activities,” Dimmitt said.

Earles said the lake and the park are attractions themselves, not just the golf course.

“That’s (the lake) an attraction for the whole community, if we make more things to do down there than just golf,” Earles added. “Because you have plenty of room to do some other things.”

The council initially discussed forming a committee, but instead decided having a town hall meeting for the community to express what it would like for the park would be better. Grimes spoke at last Friday’s Chamber Coffee and said such a meeting would likely take place in January.