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The [http://mcintirebotanicalgarden.org '''McIntire Botanical Garden'''] is a non-profit organization that advocates the construction of a [[botanical garden]] in the eastern half of [[McIntire Park]].<ref name=>[http://www.cvilletomorrow.org/news/article/15937-botanical-garden-partnership/ City makes botanical garden partnership official], [[Sean Tubbs]], [[Charlottesville Tomorrow]], September 16, 2013.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Officers, Board, Volunteers|url=http://mcintirebotanicalgarden.org/about/mbg-board/|author=|work=|publisher=McIntire Botanical Garden|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=April 18, 2014}}</ref> After years of negotiations, the group entered into a memorandum of agreement with the city of Charlottesville in late September 2015.  <ref>{{cite web|title=Memorandum of Agreement between McIntire Botanical Garden and City of Charlottesville|url=http://www.mcintirebotanicalgarden.org/resources/MBG-Memorandum-of-Understanding.pdf|author=McIntire Botanical Garden an the City of Charlottesville|work=|publisher=|location=|publishdate=September 29, 2015|accessdate=October 13, 2015}}</ref>  
The [http://mcintirebotanicalgarden.org '''McIntire Botanical Garden'''] is a non-profit organization that is seeking to build a [[botanical garden]] in the eastern half of [[McIntire Park]]. <ref>{{cite web|title=City makes botanical garden partnership official|url=https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/botanical-garden-partnership|author=Sean Tubbs|work=News Article|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=September 16, 2013|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref>  


The group hopes to open the park in the spring of 2018.  
After years of negotiations, the group entered into a memorandum of agreement with the city of Charlottesville in late September 2015.  <ref>{{cite web|title=Memorandum of Agreement between McIntire Botanical Garden and City of Charlottesville|url=https://mcintirebotanicalgarden.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MBG-Memorandum-of-Agreement.pdf|author=McIntire Botanical Garden an the City of Charlottesville|work=|publisher=|location=|publishdate=September 29, 2015|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref>
 
In May 2018, the group selected Boston-based Mikyoung Kim Design and Charlottesville-based [[Waterstreet Studios]] to create a design for the park. <ref>{{cite web|title=Boston and Charlottesville firms to design McIntire Botanical Garden|url=https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/botanical-garden-design/|author=Sean Tubbs|work=News Article|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=May 3, 2018|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref> <ref>{{cite web|title=McIntire Botanical Garden Selects Landscape Architects for Garden's Design|url=https://www.nbc29.com/story/38109798/mcintire-botanical-garden-selects-landscape-architects-for-gardens-design|author=McIntire Botanical Garden|work=Press Release|publisher=WVIR NBC29|location=|publishdate=May 3, 2018|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref> Initial designs were unveiled to the public in December 2018. <ref>{{cite web|title=Plans for McIntire Botanical Garden Released|url=https://www.nbc29.com/story/39656398/plans-for-mcintire-botanical-garden-released|author=Staff Reports|work=News Article|publisher=WVIR NBC29|location=|publishdate=December 17, 2018|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref>
 
The group is currently fundraising to turn the conceptual plans into construction documents. <ref>{{cite-progress|title=|url=https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/mcintire-botanical-garden-seeks-community-support/article_3ff2604c-3317-11e9-8f10-b781465aaa0d.html|author=Nolan Stout|pageno=|printdate=February 17, 2019|publishdate=February 17, 2019|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref>
 
 
<ref>{{cite web|title=McIntire Botanical Garden seeks community support|url=https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/mcintire-botanical-garden-seeks-community-support/article_3ff2604c-3317-11e9-8f10-b781465aaa0d.html|author=Nolan Stout|work=News Article|publisher=Daily Progress|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=}}</ref>
 
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===Board of Directors===
===Board of Directors===
*[[Helen Flamini]], President
*[[Linda Seaman]], President
*[[Janet Miller]], Vice-President
*[[Joan Swanberg]], President-elect
*[[Karen Lilleleht]], Secretary
*Jill Tirschman-Marks, Vice President
*[[Peter McIntosh]], Treasurer
*[[Virginia Daugherty]], Secretary
*Sandy Wilcox, Treasurer
*[[Dorothy Tompkins]], Past President
*Carolyn Achenbach
*Diego Anderson
*Deborah Bell Burks
*Carol Carter
*Ted Coates
*Jude Garzolini
*Julia Green
*Cindy Hamady
*Katy McCune
*Consi Palmer
*Rodney Shirley <ref>{{cite web|title=Officers, Board, Volunteers|url=http://mcintirebotanicalgarden.org/about/mbg-board/|author=|work=|publisher=McIntire Botanical Garden|location=|publishdate=|accessdate=April 18, 2014}}</ref>
 
====Former Board Members====
*[[Anita Showers]], Vice-President
*[[Helen Flamini]], Founder
*[[Peter McIntosh]]
*[[C. Colston Burrell]]
*[[C. Colston Burrell]]
*[[Anita Showers]]
*[[Blake Caravati]]
*[[Lesley Sewell]]
*[[Cindy Hamadi]]
*[[Leslie Sewell]]




===Other Volunteers===
===Planning Process===
*Accounting Assistant – [[Denise Harper]]
The nonprofit group was founded in 2008 to advocate for a botanical garden within the city limits. At the time, the future of a [[McIntire Park]] transformed by what would become the [[John Warner Parkway]] was undetermined, and the group lobbied for the western half to become a garden that would preserve the area's natural beauty. <ref>{{cite web|title=Botanical garden supporters see future in McIntire Park|url=https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/botanical_garden-2|author=Sean Tubbs|work=News Article|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=August 29, 2009|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref> To get there, the group had to convince [[City Council]] to consider removing the golf course. As the roadway neared completion, the city's parks and recreation department began a master planning process to determine what would happen next.
*Business Development - [[Paula Pagonakis]]
*Social Media - [[Riley Panko]]


===Planning Process===
[[image:20111021-MBG-concept1.jpg|left|250px|thumb|Initial concept for the park envisioned using the entire western half of the park]]In October 2011, the group showed a preliminary concept designed by landscape architect [[Kennon Williams]] that envisioned using the entire western half of the park and included the existing wading pool. <ref>{{cite web|title=City’s central park seen as home for botanical garden|url=https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/botanical_garden|author=Brian Wheeler|work=News Article|publisher=Charlottesville Tomorrow|location=|publishdate=October 22, 2011|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref>
 
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City Council adopted a master plan for the eastern side of the park on [[September 3]], [[2012]] after an extensive planning process which included the cessation of the golf course by the end of 2016. While the plan called for a botanical garden or natural area in the northern section, it did not initially specify that {{PAGENAME}} would be involved. At that meeting, City Councilor [[Dave Norris]] indicated the group should be selected as the official partner. <ref>{{cite web|title=Golf to leave McIntire sooner; Recreational fields still at issue|url=https://www.cvilletomorrow.org/articles/mcintire-plan|author=Sean Tubbs|work=News  Article|publisher=|location=|publishdate=September 4, 2012|accessdate=May 20, 2019}}</ref>


According to the City of Charlottesville's Website, there have been two public meetings so far about the design of the garden.  The last one was on September 3rd, 2014. Closed meetings have continued since then between McIntire Botanical Garden's and City Staff. {{fact}}


===Draft Memorandum of Understanding===
===Draft Memorandum of Understanding===

Revision as of 21:47, 20 May 2019

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The McIntire Botanical Garden is a non-profit organization that is seeking to build a botanical garden in the eastern half of McIntire Park. [1]

After years of negotiations, the group entered into a memorandum of agreement with the city of Charlottesville in late September 2015. [2]

In May 2018, the group selected Boston-based Mikyoung Kim Design and Charlottesville-based Waterstreet Studios to create a design for the park. [3] [4] Initial designs were unveiled to the public in December 2018. [5]

The group is currently fundraising to turn the conceptual plans into construction documents. [6]


[7]

Board of Directors

  • Linda Seaman, President
  • Joan Swanberg, President-elect
  • Jill Tirschman-Marks, Vice President
  • Virginia Daugherty, Secretary
  • Sandy Wilcox, Treasurer
  • Dorothy Tompkins, Past President
  • Carolyn Achenbach
  • Diego Anderson
  • Deborah Bell Burks
  • Carol Carter
  • Ted Coates
  • Jude Garzolini
  • Julia Green
  • Cindy Hamady
  • Katy McCune
  • Consi Palmer
  • Rodney Shirley [8]

Former Board Members


Planning Process

The nonprofit group was founded in 2008 to advocate for a botanical garden within the city limits. At the time, the future of a McIntire Park transformed by what would become the John Warner Parkway was undetermined, and the group lobbied for the western half to become a garden that would preserve the area's natural beauty. [9] To get there, the group had to convince City Council to consider removing the golf course. As the roadway neared completion, the city's parks and recreation department began a master planning process to determine what would happen next.

Initial concept for the park envisioned using the entire western half of the park

In October 2011, the group showed a preliminary concept designed by landscape architect Kennon Williams that envisioned using the entire western half of the park and included the existing wading pool. [10]

City Council adopted a master plan for the eastern side of the park on September 3, 2012 after an extensive planning process which included the cessation of the golf course by the end of 2016. While the plan called for a botanical garden or natural area in the northern section, it did not initially specify that Botanical Garden of the Piedmont would be involved. At that meeting, City Councilor Dave Norris indicated the group should be selected as the official partner. [11]


Draft Memorandum of Understanding

On January 27th, 2015 city parks staff drafted a memorandum of understanding which would guide the formal relationship between McIntire Botanical Garden and the City of Charlottesville. The agreement was signed in September 2015.

File:MBG DRAFT MOU - MCINTIRE PARK January 2015.pdf

Other botanical garden proposals

Charlottesville Botanical Garden was a competing non-profit organization with similar goals. At a McIntire Botanical Garden meeting held Aug. 28 2008, Lonnie Murray, a representative of that group, said he would be willing to merge the two groups. [12]

References

  1. ↑ Web. City makes botanical garden partnership official, Sean Tubbs, News Article, Charlottesville Tomorrow, September 16, 2013, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  2. ↑ Web. Memorandum of Agreement between McIntire Botanical Garden and City of Charlottesville, McIntire Botanical Garden an the City of Charlottesville, September 29, 2015, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  3. ↑ Web. Boston and Charlottesville firms to design McIntire Botanical Garden, Sean Tubbs, News Article, Charlottesville Tomorrow, May 3, 2018, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  4. ↑ Web. McIntire Botanical Garden Selects Landscape Architects for Garden's Design, McIntire Botanical Garden, Press Release, WVIR NBC29, May 3, 2018, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  5. ↑ Web. Plans for McIntire Botanical Garden Released, Staff Reports, News Article, WVIR NBC29, December 17, 2018, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  6. ↑ Web. [1], Nolan Stout, Daily Progress, Lee Enterprises, February 17, 2019, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  7. ↑ Web. McIntire Botanical Garden seeks community support, Nolan Stout, News Article, Daily Progress
  8. ↑ Web. Officers, Board, Volunteers, McIntire Botanical Garden, retrieved April 18, 2014.
  9. ↑ Web. Botanical garden supporters see future in McIntire Park, Sean Tubbs, News Article, Charlottesville Tomorrow, August 29, 2009, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  10. ↑ Web. City’s central park seen as home for botanical garden, Brian Wheeler, News Article, Charlottesville Tomorrow, October 22, 2011, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  11. ↑ Web. Golf to leave McIntire sooner; Recreational fields still at issue, Sean Tubbs, News Article, September 4, 2012, retrieved May 20, 2019.
  12. ↑ Web. Botanical garden supporters see future in McIntire Park, Sean Tubbs, Charlottesville Tomorrow, August 29, 2009, retrieved February 9, 2015.

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