Yoctangee Park Planned Improvements Reach Next Stagebut with Pushback [Video]

Chillicothe — With Yoctangee Park lit for the season, the proposed major changes to it funded by the “Appalachian Community Grant Program” may be more or less in mind for park visitors looking at Christmas lights.

As the draft plan has been evolving since its big unveiling on May 1st, and shown in stages to county and city officials, there has also been some criticism of it lately.

The approximately two-and-a-half-year fast-paced plan to add buildings and reconfigure recreational facilities has reached the point where the city can make the first legal contract in the project.

That was when council passed a resolution allowing the mayor to contract with a “construction manager at risk,” as sponsored by development chair Dan Demint. As he and Mayor Luke Feeney explained to council Monday evening, that job is not to make designs, but …