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By Tiffany Erickson
KING OF THE JUNGLE GYM: Lions Park, where the new city shop will be built, is currently a quiet, secluded area next to a gravel pit. / Photo by Tiffany Erickson HYDE PARK -- Along with all of the changes the City Council has planned for Lions Park, the most immediate is building the city shop and maintenance. It will be built at the extreme south end of the park and though it will be 120 feet long and 60 feet wide, the shop will hardly be visible to residents who live near it and park goers. Councilman Charles Wheeler said the shop will be built so that the back of the building will be partly buried into the hill. He said it should not even be visible to neighbors. "The building itself will have a nice face," said Wheeler. "We want to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible." He said the shop will have four bay doors in which city equipment such as a snow plow, backhoe and other trucks will be parked, along with a paved parking area and central office. "We're negotiating with a property owner right now," said Wheeler. "There is a section through the area that we [the city] don't own. Wheeler said that property owners near the park have been really cooperative and he expects that negotiations and land swaps won't take long and he projects construction will start sometime in July. "We had to change a few things in order to obey are own rules as far as [property] setbacks are concerned," said Wheeler. "But it is definitely a go." Wheeler said he didn't know as of yet exactly what the cost of the building would be however the city has set aside $100,000 for it. The city hopes to have it built and be moved in before next October.
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