Public workshop on future plans for Tahoe Paradise Park

MEYERS, Calif. - The Tahoe Paradise Recreation and Park District is asking the community for input on future plans for the park in Meyers, and two upcoming meetings will be held for the public to give their input.

The park is applying for Prop. 68 grant funds and should they be received an infrastructure project list is being compiled.

On Tuesday, November 27 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., the board will be holding a special meeting that will include an open forum and workshop on park plans. One suggested use is to build a skate park, possibly near the current tennis courts. Also on the list of possibilities are an ADA trail around the lake, building improvements, a new ballfield, a gazebo like the ones at Bijou Community Park, Truckee River restoration, continuing of their forest management program as well as many other ideas according to Board President Victor Babbit.

The meeting is being held at Tahoe Paradise Park, 1011 E. San Bernardino.

Besides the November 27 meeting, which is park-driven, is another one on Wednesday, December 5, also from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. which will include presentations by El Dorado County. On Thursday, December 6 is their normally scheduled board meeting, which is also open to the public and has a public comment period.

Another goal of the meetings will be to get people involved, said Babbit. For now it's a couple of volunteers and the five-member board doing most of the planning and they could use more hands to help.

A future possibility of the park would be to work out a land-swap with owners of some land between the park and the neighborhood owned by the US Forest Service and California Tahoe Conservancy. That could be a possible location for a skate park as well.

The public is invited to attend one of all of the meetings to support and give input on future plans.

There is a group already working on design, funding and construction implementation of a skate park. They will be presenting the idea during the meetings. Olympian Jamie Anderson, who grew up in Meyers, is lending her support to the skate park plan. She also suggested an idea of food trucks in the park to give park users good options.

Refreshments will be served during the two workshops.