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Meeting To Plan Bratt’s New Regional Park Will Be Tonight
February 12, 2009
A new community park for Bratt is a done-deal, and you have the chance to help shape the future of the park by attending a meeting tonight.
Area residents interested in the park are invited to attend a public meeting to be held at 6:30 tonight in the Fellowship Hall at the Shiloh Free Will Baptist Church at 5410 North Highway 99. The new park will be located along Highway 4 between Bratt First Baptist Church and Northview High School.
The Escambia County Commission approved the land swap back in April, and there has been a “coming soon” sign on the property for months. But the deal just became final less than a month ago.
The county traded 57 acres of mostly wetlands that county owned on Hanks Road for 13.19 acres at the corner of West Highway 4 and Bratt Road. The Highway 4 property was owned by Kale and Donna Schneider.
District 5 Commissioner Kevin White said that the new park had been a “long time coming”, with plans having been in the works for about 10 years.
“I think this is a great thing,” White recently told NorthEscambia.com. “A park in that area has been needed for a long time. This has been 10 years in the making.”
The land swap will end up costing the county only about $9,000. That will leave about $141,000 currently budgeted in White’s discretionary Local Option Sales Tax funds to develop that park. In the beginning, that money will pay for land improvements, playground equipment and a walking trail. Softball fields are part of the ultimate plan for the park, White said. The county’s budget crisis will not effect the funding for the park since funds will come from the local sales tax monies.
“It will be a great asset for the community, and we expect the private sector will get involved and help too,” White said. “It provides another park in the north part of the county that the other board members have supported since I have been here.”
Pictured above: The site of a new county-owned park in Bratt is currently an open area with just a few very small trees. NorthEscambia.com photo, click to enlarge.
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they should put in a bike track just a place a person can ride on a flat surface and not worry about cars or hills.