A paper-airplane shaped band shell, water feature and curved walkway made it into the final recommendations for Santa Fe Commons Park. Public hammocks did not.
Consultants presented their recommendations at a public input session Thursday for the 3.8-acre park in the heart of downtown Overland Park. They made two final park plans – one with a farmers’ market and one without – that will continue through various city committees before the city council decides what the park should look like.
Here are proposed site plans for the two concepts. Santa Fe Commons Park, which will be re-christened Thompson Park when the work is done, has been a worry for neighbors who have been suspicious about plans to move the market. The city has been looking for ways to expand and improve popular market. But neighbors say moving it to the park would add too much hustle and bustle to the quiet space. The downtown building boom has already created traffic and parking problems, and moving the market closer to houses would make things worse, some have said.
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