The City Commission took up the topic of the planned Arcadia Creek Festival Site renovation again, in a meeting of the whole, last week. City planners tried to set the record straight on what the development plans are. Apparently there was some misinformation / misinterpretation of the early design documents. The assistant city planner clarified that there was never a plan to enclose the public portion of the park with a permanent fence, and that while it is true that they want to develop the northern portion of the site into housing, the proposed layout of the remaining space will actually result in more usable space than what is there currently. Overall, this is a bit more reassuring to me -
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MLive | City of Kalamazoo