Decentralized System: What does this mean for the Riverfront?

Focuses new programming along the Downtown Facilities

riverfront in the downtown core, between • City promenade with outdoor dining
I-380 and 12th Street. Areas of the riverfront and cafés
beyond the downtown are naturalized with trails • Farmer's Market
and prairie plantings.
• Event Plaza on May's Island

Seminole
Valley
Ellis
Park

Downtown

Urban Naturalized Areas

Fishery
• 80% of the
Greenway is
naturalized.
City
Wetlands Promenade

Capital Cost: $101,700,000 • Prairie plantings, Event

Space

river's edge
Total Operational Cost: $361,100 naturalization and O Ave Naturalized
Greenway
the creation of
New Operational Cost: $169,250 Naturalized
Greenway
wetlands.
Advantages Disadvantages Boat
Dock
Boating
Plaza at
Time Check • Expands Ellis
• Incorporates naturalized • Does not make the Harbor facility
riverfront into the regional trail riverfront and Greenway to include public
landing and boat
and ecological system. a regional recreational launch.
destination. • Expands facility
• Creates some new riverfront to include boating
F Ave and fish stocking
access with event space. program.
Centralized System: What does this mean for the Riverfront?
Focuses new program and shift some existing Riverfront Programming
park uses to the riverfront to create a regional
• 7500- person with permanent and lawn
attraction.
seating.
• City promenade at downtown core with
outdoor dining and cafés.

Ellis
• Fountain/ event plaza/ ice rink on
Seminole
Harbor May's Island.
Valley
Ellis
Park • Inflatable dam near the 8th Avenue
Bridge creates a recreational pool Fountain / Event
Plaza / Ice Rink
City
Time Check Promenade
Greenway
Downtown
downtown for boating.
Greenway
• Urban Fishery expands to include
boating and fish stocking programs.
Landfill
Urban
Fishery
• New outdoor recreation fields in Time
Check Greenway and Seminole Valley. Boat Docks

• Temporary beaches for volleyball and Amphitheater with Fixed

and Lawn seating

boat launch.
• 70% developed/ 30% naturalized
Capital Cost: $259,200,000 Greenway

Total Operational Cost: $659,150

Pedestrian
Bridge

New Operational Cost: $378,900

Advantages Disadvantages O Ave
Boat
• Makes the riverfront a signature • Draws resources Soccer
Dock
Fields
destination for the City of Cedar away from dispersed
Rapids and the region. neighborhood parks and Plaza at
Time Check

• Accommodates a variety of facilities. Baseball

programming, appealing to Parking

a wide range of users, at the BMX /

Skatepark
riverfront. F Ave
Hybrid System: What does this mean for the Riverfront?
This option consolidates recreational Downtown Facilities
amenities into a series of parks to serve as • 5000 person grass
multi-neighborhood centers. These "cluster" amphitheater
parks would be Ellis, Cherry Hill, Jones, Bever, • City promenade with
and Noelridge with a potential future cluster near outdoor dining and cafés
Kirkwood to serve the growing south side. • Farmer's Market
Flexible City
Promenade
• Event Space Plaza

Naturalized
Greenway
Ushers
Ferry
Ellis Boat Docks
Park Grass
Amphitheater

Downtown

Boating and Fishing Active recreation

• Installs a rubber, inflatable • Creates new soccer complex,
Urban
Fishery dam near 8th Avenue to camping facilities and a public boat
create a new recreational pool launch at Seminole Valley.
downtown.
• Creates temporary beaches for
• Expands Urban Fishery facility volleyball and boat launch.
to include boat rental and fish
stocking program.
Capital Cost: $175,200,000

Total Operational Cost: $500,190

Naturalized Areas
New Operational Cost: $219,940 • 50% Naturalized Greenway.

• Prairie plantings, river's edge

Advantages Disadvantages naturalization and the creation

• Does not fully take advantage of of wetlands at Time Check

• Provides a mix of
programmed and naturalized opportunities to develop community- Greenway and between Ushers Ferry
spaces along the riverfront. wide amenities in the Greenway. downtown and the Landfill. • Increases revenue-generation with a rental facility for events and weddings.
Advantages and Disadvantages of the Options
Noelridge Noelridge Noelridge
Park Park Park

Squaw Ellis
Ushers Shaver Creek
Ferry Park Daniels Seminole Harbor Seminole
Seminole Valley Daniels Valley Ellis
Valley Park Park
Ellis Ellis Bever Park Bever
Bever Park Park
Park Park Park
Time
Check Time Check
Shawnee Downtown Greenway
Park Ambroz Downtown Downtown
Bender
Van Vechten
Apache Park Apache Cherry Hill
Cherry Hill Park Cherry Hill Park Park
Park Park
Landfill
Cedar Valley Park Urban
Urban Fishery Urban
Fishery Fishery
Jones Jones
Park Park Jones
Park
Beverly Beverly Future
Park Park (based on growth)

Option 1: Decentralized Option 2: Centralized Option 3: Hybrid

Advantages: Advantages: Advantages:

• Evenly distributed neighborhood parks throughout • Creates a regional destination riverfront with • Resources are distributed more evenly between the
the City. waterfront activities for a variety of users. new Greenway and neighborhood parks that serve
each area of the city.
• A naturalized Greenway contributes to passive • Puts the greatest amount of park amenity and
recreation and regional ecological systems. indoor recreation in the heart of the City, accessible • Indoor Recreation Facilities are well-distributed to
to all residents by an improved trail system. service multiple neighborhoods.
Disadvantages:
Disadvantages: • Trails encourage connections between cluster
• Does not draw people and resources to the parks.
riverfront, downtown and city center. • Investment in the riverfront and new Greenway
requires less investment in neighborhood parks. Disadvantages:
• Dispersal of parks and facilities causes duplication
in staff, maintenance and facilities, increasing • Higher capital cost from increased new • Partial dispersal of parks and facilities causes some
operating costs. programmed parks on the riverfront. duplication in staff, maintenance and facilities,
increasing operating costs.
• Focuses more on quantity and distribution than
quality of experience.
Comparison of the Programming in the Options
Parks and Open Space Riverfront Indoor Recreation
Option 1: Option 2: Option 3: Option 1: Option 2: Option 3: Option 1: Option 2: Option 3:
Features Features Features
Decentralized Centralized Hybrid Decentralized Centralized Hybrid Decentralized Centralized Hybrid
Remove parcels that have no 7500- person 5000- person 245,000 square
X X X 150,000 square
recreational value amphitheater with amphitheater with Improve / replace foot
Amphitheater foot Community
formal and lawn grass terraced Bender, Ambroz, Multigenerational
Maintain existing ballfields and Recreation Center
X seating seating Facilities Time Check Community Life
sports complexes at Noelridge;
(74,000 sq. ft. Center at Ellis;
City promenade with dining and existing facilities
Add baseball and softball X X X total) existing facilities
X cafés repurposed
tournament facilities to Tuma repurposed
Spray fountain in Neighborhood
Maintain one dog facility at Flexible lawn Flexible plaza
X Activity on May's Island summer/ skate rink Additional Facilities Facilities at Cherry
Squaw Creek space space
in winter Hill and Jones
Improve existing skate park at Destination play space at Programming partnerships at
X X Gymnasium Space Program Rooms
Riverside riverfront schools or neighborhood centers
Convert areas that have little or Gymnasiums 2 8 5
Boating X X X
no recreational value to low-mow X X X
and prairie plantings Indoor track X X
Fishing X X X
Adopt-a-park program for 10,000 - 12,000 5,000 - 7,000 sq.
Health and fitness
maintenance in new residential X X X Rental facility for events/ sq. ft. ft.
development At Ushers Ferry At Ushers Ferry
weddings Indoor lap pool 6 lanes x 25 yd 3 lanes x 25 yd 8 lanes x 25 yd
New active recreation at Active recreation at Seminole Competition pool 50m x 25 yd
X X X
Seminole Valley Valley
Multi-purpose fields at Time Indoor family activity pool X X
Potential repurpose or landbank X
X X Check Greenway
of Tuma Party rental room (by pool) 1 (sub-dividable) 1 (sub-dividable) 1 (sub-dividable)
Temporary beaches and boat
Move dispersed or defunct X Aerobics 1 1
X launch
facilities to Greenway
stand-alone
Enhanced signage and Dog Park on riverfront X Rock climbing in gymnasium
X feature
wayfinding system
Skate Park/ BMX at riverfront X Dance 1 1 1
Neighborhood Cluster parks at
Ellis, Cherry Hill, Jones, Bever, X Arts and Crafts 1 (sub-dividable) 2 (sub-dividable) 1 (sub-dividable)
Noelridge Vegetate landfill X X X
General program rooms and
Explore possibility of new Social and cultural 4 (sub-dividable) 6-8 6
X Privatize Ushers Ferry X
southern cluster park for future programming rooms
High quality tournament facilities
Percentage Naturalized Area 80% 30% 50% Multi-use room and stage with 1 (sub-dividable) 1 (sub-dividable)
at Seminole Valley, Noelridge, X
catering kitchen w/ stage w/ stage
Ellis
New dog park at Bever and Creative play w/
Cherry Hill, skate park at Jones X Creative play and child care indoor playground Childcare only
and Bever and childcare

Lower mowing schedule for Older adults partner Leased space Shared space
X X
neighborhood Parks
Wellness partner Leased space Shared space

Community safety partner Leased space Leased space

Community early learning partner Leased space

Central café Leased space