City plans for potential park on Powerhouse Road

This story is part of a feature that first appeared in print in Revelstoke Mountaineer Magazine’s February 2023 issue. Read the entire e-edition here:

The City of Revelstoke has begun work on a concept plan for a park on Powerhouse Road.

The 2.3-acre site located in the Southside neighbourhood was identified as a priority by the community in the city’s new Parks and Recreation Master Plan (PRMP) adopted in June 2022 and the Official Community Plan (OCP). Right now, city staff are in the process of developing a park concept plan.

The plan provides visual ideas of how amenities could be placed in the park area. Amenities being considered for the project include food production gardens, a fenced dog park, a renovated disc golf course, boxing clubhouse upgrades and a potential water access point, depending on land ownership.

A concept plan shows where open or natural areas are, where things like pathways, benches, play structures, buildings and playing fields are located, and how much space each item might take up.

Laurie Donato, Director of Parks, Recreation and Culture, says the concept plan, “will identify potential amenities in the park; it will not get into the specifics design of each amenity.”

Donato says the Powerhouse Park Project team is working with the Revelstoke Disc Golf Course Society, Macpherson Dog Park Society, Revelstoke Paddlesport Association, the Revelstoke Local Food Initiative and the Revelstoke Boxing Club on the plan.

The project team initially planned to release the concept plan to the public for feedback in December of 2022, but Donato says there have been delays.

“Due to some scheduling issues, we are still having conversations with some of the user groups,” she said in an email. “Might be early February before we get the plan out to the public. The public will be able to see and provide feedback on TalkRevelstoke.”

The plan is required before construction designs, and actual construction can begin.