PORT ANGELES — A designer of world-class aquatic centers has proposed building a facility on Port-owned Oak Street property instead of a traditional swimming pool at two sites now under consideration.
The City Council will hear a presentation on Concept Dorssers’ proposal beginning at 5 p.m. July 19 in the council chambers at City Hall before that night’s regular meeting.
The 11-member Swimming Pool Oversight Committee was briefed about the Dorssers’ proposal at its Wednesday meeting at City Hall.
Public Works Director Glenn Cutler said of the three concepts in Dorssers’ proposal, the second seemed to best meet the city’s needs.
The aquatic center proposal includes party rooms, water slides, sauna area, restaurant, kitchen, children’s pool, wave pool, current channel, lazy river, 25-yard competition pool, diving area, 25-yard program pool, family changing area, locker rooms and offices.
The city’s Capital Facilities Plan lists the cost for a swimming pool at $11 million. It would probably be financed by a city bond.
No estimated cost for the aquatic center proposal was presented Wednesday.
Cutler said that when Harry Dorssers and Treadwell Jones of Larkin Aquatics began designing the aquatic center, Dorssers was told the two proposed sites were next to the Clallam County Family YMCA building at 302 S. Francis St. and a parking lot between Fourth and Fifth streets along Peabody Street next to City Hall.
Dorssers asked about locating the aquatic center on the Port’s Oak Street property, Cutler said.
Port Commissioner Leonard Beil, who attended the meeting, said two other groups have expressed interest in the 3.8-acre Port property at the corner of Front and Oak streets.
