The City's current plan is not the first. In 2014 the City entered into a plan that would have demolished a huge section of the park to build a parking lot.
The picture, to the left, was taken from City Hall Report ID: 2014-00929. In the image, the park land, west of the existing parking lot, would be destroyed in “Phase 1”. When “Phase 2” was implemented, a massive section of land, east of the baseball field, would be destroyed.
Fortunately, for the families of Arden & Carmichael, this plan did not come to fruition.