Title:
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Renaming Natomas Oaks Park as Ray and Judy Tretheway Oak Preserve
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FileID
File ID: 2020-00815
Location
Location: District 4
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Recommendation:
Recommendation
Adopt a Resolution approving the renaming of Natomas Oaks Park as Ray and Judy Tretheway Oak Preserve.
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Contact: Brianna Moland, Assistant Planner, (916) 808-6188; Raymond Costantino, Park Planning and Development Services Division Manager, (916) 808-1941, Department of Youth, Parks, & Community Enrichment
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Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Park Location Map (Natomas Oaks Park)
3-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The Department of Youth, Parks, & Community Enrichment (Department) recommends approving the renaming of Natomas Oaks Park as Ray and Judy Tretheway Oak Preserve.
Natomas Oaks Park is an existing 12.8-acre community park located at 2230 River Plaza Drive in South Natomas (District 4). Existing park amenities include group and individual picnic areas, a lawn area, and a natural preserve. Natomas Oaks Park was named after the oak woodland in the area. To commemorate the naming as Ray and Judy Tretheway Oak Preserve, new signage and a plaque will be installed. The project CIP has already been funded on July 21, 2020 under the staff report: Establish Capital Improvement Project and Appropriation of Funds to Council District 4 Various Park Project. The CIP scope includes two new concrete monument park signs, one new dedication plaque, and interpretive signage.
There are also individual park features at Natomas Oaks Park that are named after significant contributors to the City of Sacramento. The oak grove on the eastern side of the park is named after Austin Brown Carroll. The group picnic area on the western side of the park was dedicated after Archie Hefner (per Resolution No. 90-439). The names of these individual park features will not be changing.
Since moving to South Natomas in 1978, Ray and Judy Tretheway have ...
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