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City Planners Looking for Feedback on Future of Galt Gardens

Sep 26, 2016 | 5:36 AM

LETHBRIDGE – The city is hosting an open house this week to look at the future of Galt Gardens.

Downtown Redevelopment Manager, George Kuhl, noted that the park is quite old, and while extensive work has been done to improve the south side of the park, not much has happened on the north end.

“We’re expecting to see some alternatives that the consultants have prepared based on some of the initial research that they did, as well as some of the stakeholder engagement that we participated in a little over a month ago,” Kuhl explained of the open house.

“There should be two or three design alternatives that we would like people to comment on and let us know if we’ve interpreted the kinds of things that they’ve given us correctly, and also to get new ideas if people haven’t had a chance yet to have those ideas considered in the designs.”

Kuhl also outlined some of the things Lethbridge residents have already focused on as priorities for the park.

“Some of the things that they’d like to see is, for example, a children’s playground, they would like to see more support for festivals and those kinds of things, and some of the landscaping in the park needs to be upgraded,” stated Kuhl.

Following the open house, the information collected will be prepared to go before City of Lethbridge council and their Capital Improvement Program discussions in October.

The open house runs from 4 to 8 P.M. Wednesday (Sept. 28) at the Multi-Cultural Centre (Southern Alberta Ethnic Association) located at 421 – 6 Avenue South.