The Ministry of Community Services is putting the finishing touches on plans for the proposed park in Bodden Town.
The Bodden Town Park is the final instalment of the Growing Communities initiative, a partnership between the Dart Foundation and the Government of the Cayman Islands aimed at developing and beautifying parks in each district.
The park incorporates public land provided by the government with design, construction and initial landscape maintenance donated by the Dart Foundation, explains a press release from the Ministry.
Bodden Town Park, off Gun Square Road, is now ready to be submitted to the Central Planning Authority, said the Permanent Secretary to the Ministry of Community Services, Carson Ebanks.
‘Once we have approval, we hope to have the park ready in December or early 2006,’ he said.
The park will have a children’s play area and will include a garden around the Bodden Town Senior Citizen Community Centre, which is also located on the property. The plans also take into account surrounding wetlands.
‘We are going to enhance the area with native flora and fauna and incorporate plants that will feed butterflies, moths, bats and insects that are in the area,’ said Sandy Urquhart, a Dart Foundation representative in charge of park design.
‘This facility will break from the urban parks we have already put in place. It will be a woodland wildlife type park. We plan to work more with the natural environment. There is a pond (Katie’s Boiling Hole), and we want our plans to fit in with that ecosystem. We will have an area where people can watch birds.’
While the value of the Growing Communities park-development project exceeds $1 million, no money actually changes hands, the release said. Instead, district committees work with the foundation to determine specific needs. Plans are drafted, and materials are then donated and installed by Dart employees.
‘The Dart Foundation is pleased to be in partnership with Government to build public parks intended to bring families together in a safe, friendly and wholesome environment,’ said Dart Foundation representative John Papesh.
‘We are very encouraged by the high level of public support for this project and strongly invite all members of the community to become involved and take ownership of what will be their new district park to use and enjoy,’ he said.
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