Council signs off on Creekside fixes

Patrick Davenport, City of Sisters community development director, reports that the Sisters City Council reviewed the CPAB recommendations for improvements to the Creekside Campground, agreeing to most of them, including performing a traffic study to modify ingress/egress, and constructing a berm along Locust Street.

The proposed berm along Tyee Drive was replaced with enhanced landscape plantings in order to reduce the cost of the project.

Davenport reviewed for the parks advisory board a progress draft of the new master plan for Creekside Park and Campground, including existing conditions and overall goals and objectives for improvements. The prioritization of the goals is outlined in the proposed Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) for all the City parks. Davenport advised the board that the overall City Parks Master Plan has to be completed before the CIP goes to Council for their approval.

The final draft of the Creekside Park Master Plan will be returned to CPAB for review once the traffic study around the campground is completed and the parks CIP document is approved by City Council.