When Wild Meadows Park opens in eastern Sioux Falls, it will reflect the people who designed it.
Not the city officials who designed the landscape for the park at Brennan Drive and Yankee Avenue, but the several hundred neighbors who shared their input.
Wild Meadows Park will occupy a little over 4 acres in the Wild Meadows housing development in the neighborhood near Sixth Street and Dubuque Avenue, about a mile north of the eastside Menards, said Mike Patten, park development manager for the Sioux Falls Parks & Recreation Department.
That will make it comparable in size to Emerson Park at 14th Street and West Avenue, for example. Neighborhood parks in Sioux Falls range in size from 3 to 8 acres and serve the blocks that surround them. The Wild Meadows development has some multifamily housing but generally has a higher density of single-family residences…