If you want, or do not want an indoor pool in SF, make your opinion known tonight;
Sioux Falls Parks and Recreation will be holding a public meeting to discuss the Master Plan for Spellerberg Park from 5:30 to 7 p.m. today at Oyate Community Center.
This plan will address the possibility of a new indoor aquatic facility and other park renovations. Those in attendance will have the opportunity to ask questions and share their vision of what Spellerberg Park should be.
Oyate Community Center is at 2421 W. 15th St., attached to Garfield Elementary School.
If you have questions regarding this meeting, call the Park Office at 367-8222.
Is a pool the only option? What if we want something else? Like an ice skating rink? Or a roller-derby arena? Or a cricket pitch? Or a bowling stadium? I wouldn’t be opposed to a Bollywood palace either. Or maybe just a good deli. Yeah that’s it.
Not again. Wasn’t this idea killed 2 years ago. They shove it down your throat and eventually make it possible with a rigged vote. We (the people) have no voice in city government. Just do it. We’ll move when taxes get higher than suburb cities.
Yeah, they won’t let it die. I hope CR gives us a update about the meeting.
Good grief people – you never thought we would talk about an indoor swimming facility again?
Spellerberg is next on the list for renovations, enhancements, etc. There is not enough money to renovate this pool and do an indoor pool elsewhere. This is next and I am not interested in seeing a 10 week “summer wonderland” of lazy rivers, no swimming, and standing in line. It will be able to be utilized if needed for swim meets by Snow Fox and Seals – but also the high schools and colleges if needed. (Remember – USF and Augie are basically within a 1/2-1mile of this facility). These are all money generators on the back side which benefits the community as a whole – especially in the winter time.
Traffic seems to be the big issue. I live in this neighborhood and I am more than fine with an uptick in traffic for this facility. They will have to construct some turning lanes and look at the flow of traffic – but from the design I viewed – it looks like they are already looking at that from the parking lot to Western Ave. AND – it is located directly on the bus route.
This whole design is a much better layout for this park as a whole – not just the swimming facility. It puts all of the outdoor recreation in one area such as the basketball court and the tennis courts by the park. It leaves the green space in tact so soccer teams, jr football, etc can still have their practices there. The VA has a parking lot just west of the park that can be utilized as it is empty after 4:30 every day and on the weekends.
You cannot continually keep putting these facilities in the outskirts of town. You have to keep reinvesting in your core and the central parts of your community. Otherwise we all pay for it in run down housing, crime, and the cost of redevelopment.
It is time for the private money to be solicited and make this a partnership that benefits everyone.
Alice is right, if we are going to invest in the town, it needs to be IN town. I am tired of everything going to the outskirts, stretching the infrastructure and killing the core. Kinda like the EC.
Alice it correct, the neighborhood will be enhanced by this project and for once it would be nice not to beg Sanford to build us one out of their non-profit profits.
The former debate about the Rec Center/indoor pool has crippled this City’s abililty to do anything long term and visionary. Look at Rapid City for fux sake, they run rings around us and they are half our size.
Rapid City is kicking our a** and taking names with their vision and LONG TERM goals. Everything they are constructing is coming back to their core. Kudos to our friends to the west.
Ironically, RC also has a newspaper that doesn’t suck public officials asses.
Very true. I know many that choose to read the Rapid City Journal vs. the Argus.
If we had media that actually held them accountable, things would be different in SF. I truly believe that. The EC would not have passed without SOME private funding, it would be in a different location to.