🚧 East Lake Pool Parking Expansion Update 🚧

We hear you—parking at East Lake Pool is tight, and it’s frustrating. Staff and the Board feel it too, and we’ve been working hard behind the scenes to find a practical, affordable solution. What seems like a straightforward improvement—just add more parking—has turned out to be much more complicated due to city regulations, engineering requirements, and drainage mandates. Here’s some historic context to bring everyone up to speed:

    • In 2023, the City designated a no-parking zone along the pool’s west and north sides. In response to this change, an original plan was created and approved by the Board to add 31 additional parking spaces at a budgeted cost of $121K
    • By 2024, the City had come back with drainage concerns and after much back and forth added the “requirement” of pervious pavers, berms, and landscaping which raised the cost to $280K. The Board expressed concerns about the suitability of the pervious pavers, and whether they would support emergency vehicles such as fire trucks. Based on the new requirements, the City extended our permit for an additional year.
    • 2024 priorities included paying off our debt to save monies on future interest payments. Few projects were approved.
    • Now in 2025, the project estimate is up to $322K. If approved, construction couldn’t begin until Sept/Oct of this year—or March 2026 at the latest—to be ready by Memorial Day weekend of next year.
    • The Board and Staff have not lost sight of this project—it remains an agenda topic. However, the Board did pass a motion in the April 2025 Board meeting to hold off on moving forward until current legal cases involving the Association are resolved.
    • Community Services is currently restricting parking in the grass and mulch areas due to the risk of vehicles getting stuck from deep mulch and runoff from the pool deck.
What’s Next?

LPOA staff is exploring a new design that would place additional parking south of the pool—potentially avoiding costly drainage requirements. This would mean a longer walk but could offer significant savings.

Both the original and alternate plans will be reviewed this fall during the 2026 budget process by the Board, Finance Committee, and Facilities Development Committee.

We appreciate your continued patience and understanding as we work through what’s proving to be a more complex challenge than anyone expected. We’ll keep you informed as this evolves.