What: City effort to buy land along the Canadian River next to Atkins Crossing Park for a new river park, with Atkins Crossing as a possible trailhead.
Where it stands: Purchase from a private seller is pending; no design work yet. Staff expect to issue a design RFP soon after closing and to form an ad hoc committee and seek resident input.
Next: Close on the land, then design RFP; possible trail along the river and east, and possible renaming of Atkins Crossing Park.
Details
See the Log for the meeting-by-meeting record. Built from a YouTube auto-caption transcript, which is imperfect.
Discussed during the plaque item and the Norman Forward update: acquisition still pending, park name and character undecided, trail and erosion ideas, and interest in history and ecology interpretation.