Conceptual Master Plan of Lake Lisgar and Memorial Park

Monday, 30 March 2015 06:11

The Town of Tillsonburg now has a vision for what Lake Lisgar and Memorial Park could look like.

TILLSONBURG - Tillsonburg Town Council now has a better idea of how Memorial Park and Lake Lisgar could look through the newly created Conceptual Master Plan for the properties.

Director of Recreation, Culture & Parks Rick Cox says a consulting firm from London, Ontario took the community priorities identified in a consultation process held last spring and summer and turned them into a conceptual vision for the Memorial Park area.

"The foundation of the report is a conceptual map of the Memorial Park/ Lake Lisgar area that overlays what we can work towards implementing in the space to try and make it work a little bit better and try to do more of the things we really like to see as a community and do a little bit less of the things that get under our skin a little bit."

He says it will likely take another three to four years before residents start seeing the major items in the report become reality as there is major surgery contemplated in the Conceptual Master Plan including removing the track, moving the baseball diamond and creating new parking lots.

Cox says the staff will continue to refine the plan and suggest what is and is not feasible before they start spending money.

Cox says the town will now be shifting their focus to the Community Centre and create a Master Plan for that as well. "....and say five, ten, twenty years from now, forty years from now, what are the kinds of things that we want as a community to be able to do in the Community Centre and what are the kinds of things that we used to be doing but maybe we don't' want to do or spend as much of our precious community space on."

The full report on the Conceptual Master Plan for Memorial Park and Lake Lisgar is available on the Town of Tillsonburg website and public comments are welcome.

http://www.tillsonburg.ca/Portals/16/Documents/CMP-MP-LL.Feb2015.pdf