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West Village Community Parks & Open Space Concept Plan

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Multiple properties adjacent to SW Barnes Rd between SW Cedar Hills Blvd and the Sunset Transit Center

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Cedar Mill Creek Greenway
Foege Park
Merritt Woods
Sunset Transit Center
St. Vincent Hospital

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Description

For-profit housing developer West Village, LLC is proposing a future housing development with parks, trails, and natural areas in the Cedar Mill and West Haven area in exchange for THPRD system development charge credits. THPRD is partnering with the developer to ensure that the community’s input from THPRD’s Community Visioning is guiding their planning process and shaping the future of parks, trails, and natural areas in their upcoming development.

To receive SDC credits, the housing developer would be required to work with THPRD to ensure the public parks and trails within their development are developed according to THPRD community engagement and design standards.

As the current property owners, the developers are responsible for the community engagement, planning, construction, and maintenance of those properties moving forward. In the coming years, THPRD plans to assume ownership of certain future parks, trails, and natural areas based on agreements with the developer. If the developer chooses not to develop those future parks, trails, and natural areas, THPRD will add these properties to the district’s long-term development priority list.

THPRD is excited to partner with West Village, LLC to improve community access to parks and to see the community’s vision for parks continue to come to life. For more information on this planning project, please visit the David Evans and Associates, Inc. project webpage here.



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Below you’ll find answers to the questions we get asked the most about this project.

Why do housing developers sometimes develop parks instead of THPRD?
In new housing developments, a housing developer may choose to collaborate with THPRD to plan and build parks within their new development. Generally, when housing developers plan and build parks, the parks require less cost and labor for the district and the public. This usually is because the housing developer is already mobilized for planning, permitting, and construction. If a housing developer chooses not to develop parks, then THPRD must develop those properties starting from the beginning of the planning and permitting process for each new park, which can take several years. Thus, THPRD provides incentives to encourage housing developers to develop parks on their own. THPRD will then accept ownership and maintenance of parks if and when a developer constructs the parks according to the design plans (including safety, accessibility, and other standards).