Leeper Park East Rose Garden_AA 2022-0810

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/V�� ---F, Resurrect the Roses, Inc. Re: Small Staircase Project in the Rose Garden July 18, 2022 Adam Toering Historic Preservation Commission: As we discussed, currently the small staircase on the southern edge of the Rose Garden leads nowhere —just into the grass surrounding the Rose Garden —but not actually into the beds. It doesn't actually "enter" the Rose Garden, and we want to correct that. (A large number of our older visitors use this small staircase, since the "main" staircase is much steeper, and longer.) Our project would add a pathway from the bottom of the stairs, into the gravel walkway that is within the Rose Garden. The new pathway would be six feet wide (the same width as the stairs), and be composed of the same #11 crushed limestone that we used for the upper pathway that we created several years ago, connecting the Michigan Street sidewalk to the larger staircase that flows into the Rose Garden, from the west. The new 6 foot pathway would have 3 foot wide flower beds, adjacent to the path on each side of the path; separated by steel edging. We would add steel railings to the staircase, designed by Evans Metal, with the same design used recently on the stairs in Leeper (west) that lead to the Studebaker Fountain.