Armstrong’s new downtown park now has a pair of designs for the public and council to mull over.
Christina Walkden, an Armstrong native, will present her design ideas for what Huculak Park will look like Thursday at 5 p.m., and Saturday at noon, at the Armstrong Spallumcheen Chamber of Commerce.
The public is welcome to check out the designs and provide more input.
“She certainly did a lot of homework,” said Coun. Ryan Nitchie, chairperson of the city’s planning and development committee. “She did a great job using information collected from public input sessions last year to come up with this vision.”
Nitchie said Walkden, who is using the project as her masters thesis at the University of Manitoba, has taken into account the historic prominence of the site, local area vegetation and what people want to see in the park in terms of such things as community gardens and different activities for younger children.
The property was owned by community member Bernie Huculak, and sits behind his old house off Patterson Avenue to the north and Meighan Creek to the south.
Walkden hosted public consultation meetings at the site in 2011, with the first drawing nearly 40 people. Participants were asked what they wanted to see in a park.
Council will take comments and input from this week’s two sessions before making a final decision on the plan for the park.
