Nearly five years after annexing the Lavista Park neighborhood, the city of Brookhaven is creating a master plan for a three-acre wooded park at Brookforest Drive near Lavista Road.
Lavista Park’s 2023 National Night Out celebration “got the ball rolling” with City Councilmember John Funny, who announced in November that up to $100,000 would be available to make a park master plan.
Lavista Park has a playground, walking trails, stone patio, picnic benches, and a weathered observation boardwalk. A master plan will address runoff and erosion, a blocked culvert, excessive sediment entering the creek, and general creek health, confirmed Bill Dynan, Lavista Park Civic Association volunteer.
Dynan, who has served as the LVPC park coordinator for three years, organizes events to clean up invasive species. He said the park’s 750 Daffodil Project bulbs are now blooming. The Lavista Park Civic Association has maintained the park in partnership with Park Pride.
The city’s RFP states a contractor will address options “to restore, enhance, modify, and/or better operate and maintain the creek system, which often carries significant offsite sediment loads as well as park-based stream bank erosion and deposits both at the discharge side of the park.”
A master plan consultant will provide basic design guidelines for architectural and landscape design, operations and maintenance of the park, recreation facilities, and plant control.
Dynan said he’s hopeful for future connectivity to the Peachtree Creek Greenway and Atlanta BeltLine by the city’s planned pedestrian and vehicle bridges.