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September 27, 2006
Ringel Around the Rosies
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| Both of my faithful
readers will have noticed that I often mention Ringel Park as a favorite
haunt of
the home-challenged. Lately the park has been in a state of planned disarray
as the area is refurbished. The first things to go were the naturally-occuring
napping natives. Next went all of the things they napped on (I should
state that the bathrooms are staying). But there is a back-story to the enhancement to the entrance of our lovely downtown. The downtown Plaza Park design used up most of the North State cement stock that was available for 2006. In fact side-walks in Yuba City are being built out of peat-moss due to the lack of cement supplies. This left Chico in the a precarious position of locating a landscape architecture company that could design with less rigid concepts. In stepped Genesis Landscape Architecture. In looking at the design I can see they relied on an unusual concept for area beautification. They used plants. Some components of the landscaping are designed to highlight the fact that Chico is the "City of Roses". I did not know that. This will be a welcome addition to downtown Chico, and will replace the conglomeration of homeless folks with a conglomeration of foliage. This really appears to be a nice landscape design and a welcome addition to the renovation of downtown Chico's facade. Maybe it will bring more traffic to downtown merchants. Hmmm... I wonder where they'll park? See the preliminary Ringel Park Master Plan here. Additional components could be added based on City funding. |
Posted by Lon at September 27, 2006 10:45 PM