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Apple Valley OKs bond for parks
Voters approved a $14.4 million bond to upgrade and expand the city's Aquatics Center and add an athletic complex and senior center.
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Voters in Apple Valley on Tuesday decisively said yes on a parks referendum designed to appeal to people of every generation and in every part of town.
Fifty-six percent of those turning up at the polls approved a measure offering a handful of major new additions to the city's park system along with scores of smaller-scale additions throughout the city.
The outcome sets the stage for issuing $14.4 million in bonds for projects such as a major new athletics complex and a bigger senior center, along with smaller projects at more than 40 parks.
The major projects:
• Expansion of the Aquatics Center, already used by more than 50,000 people each summer, to handle an additional 500 people at any one time. New features would include a tube slide flowing into a slow-moving river.
• A new 25,000-square-foot building for a growing senior population, replacing the old and smaller one in the same spot, Hayes Park.
• A new athletics complex, called Quarry Point, at 160th Street and Pilot Knob Road. Conceived of in part to fill a growing need for soccer and lacrosse fields, the complex will include eight playing fields, a shelter and playground equipment.
In addition, play structures more than 15 years old will be replaced at six parks; trails will be added to at three parks, and trees will be planted throughout the system.
DAVID PETERSON
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