The design team and the contractor for the bond improvement projects are diligently working on the next milestone in the project process: construction documents. This package will be submitted to authorities having jurisdiction for plan review and building permits in late August. On a parallel track to this review, Adolfson & Peterson Construction will be confirming pricing and developing a Guaranteed Maximum Price for the scope of work identified in the drawings and specifications. The construction for the Ranch House, Community Center and Dakota Lodge is still targeted to begin in the fall, once summer camps are complete and children are back in school. All three facilities will be under construction at the same time. The targeted completion date for construction is spring of 2016. There will likely be some landscape items (trees, shrubs, etc.) that lag the overall schedule. With guidance from KCR staff, the design team will provide phasing plans and project graphics to advise residents of areas of construction as well as alternative routes. This information will be posted at each facility and communicated to residents via the Life at Ken-Caryl newspaper. If you have any questions or concerns, please email bondprojects@kcranch.org.

On July 21 at their regular monthly business meeting, the Ken-Caryl Ranch Master Association Board will consider a recommendation from the Ken-Caryl Ranch Open Space Committee to approve the final design for Upper Cougar Trail. The meeting will be Tuesday, July 21 at 6:30 p.m. at the Ranch House and is open to the public. The proposed trail is located in the southwest corner of Ken-Caryl Ranch Private Open Space. The new trail when combined with Lower Cougar Trail (approved by the Board on June 9) will add nearly five miles of new trail to our existing trail system, which totals nearly 38 miles of single-track, two-track, soft surface and hard surface trails. The two projects together will provide a new open space access/trailhead to neighborhoods in the south part of the Valley, a trail loop of moderate to easy difficulty along the rolling, grassy toe slopes of the foothills, and a new access to the Foothills Open Space including connections to Massey Draw and trails north of there. You can read the full article and see a map of the trail on our website.

Join us Wednesday, July 29 for an open house to review plans for park improvements, playground replacement, landscape modifications and irrigation replacement for the Saddlewood and Territory neighborhoods. This come-and-go style open house is from 4:30-6:30 p.m. at the Ranch House. Plans will be posted online after the meeting.