The city restoration is an over-engineered imposition on Levingston Cove
The City Design and Construction
- Provides some improvements and a little more space BUT comes at a great cost to the landscape and the environment
- Visitors lose proximity to the water
- Significantly more construction measured in time, dollars and environmental impact
- Unnecessary 78 cubic yards of Concrete plus tons of Steal, producing tons of embodied CO2
- Raises walkway 2 to 3 feet higher than the existing walkway
- Seating is moved further from the water’s edge
- Protection & preservation of the mature oak and rare American Elm are much more at risk
- New Structures require full railing systems
- impedes views
- impedes ease of fishing for most visitors
- impedes ‘connection’ to near water environment
- New platform turns the cove into a construction site for:
- Drilling high strength steel “mini pylons” into rock
- forming and placing tons of steel reinforced concrete
- Building out galvanized steel cantilever beams, decking and framing, with composite plastic decking