Citywide Aquatics Master Planning Experience:

Shawnee, Kansas:

Richard Scott AIA provided services as Vice President of Water Technology, Inc. to Yarger Architects in community wide aquatics master planning for the City of Shawnee. The existing two pools were evaluated as being in good condition, but obsolete in design. Three pools were envisioned for the City. The City Council accepted the report unanimously. The Mayor directed that the first pool would be an expansion and renovation of the West Pool. The 50 meter pool needed very little work at 20 years of age. The wading pool, junior pool plus some parking lot area were demolished to fit in a children’s pool, a two slide complex with plunge pool, lazy river and teaching pool area. The West Pool had an original attendance level of 70,000 per year, but had fallen to about 20,000. The expansion and modernization, including the complete renovation of the bathhouse, produce 120,000 attendance the first year.

The East Pool was replaced by a new pool located on the site of a Children’s Museum. It was designed to appeal to a young family profile and complement rather than duplicate the West Pool. There is a large water feature with a dumping bucket, an enclosed flume body slide, a free form teaching area, heavy theming of A Day at the Beach, a children’s wave pool of shallow, gentle, 6 to 12 inch waves and a picnic pavilion. This pool was designed to reduce the congestion of the West Pool. It has succeeded in doing that and drawing its own following. This pool was designed by Richard Scott as Principal of Aquatic Excellence.

The third pool will be located on the rapidly growing West side of the City. It will be an indoor pool with design planned in 2010.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma:

Richard Scott AIA wrote the Aquatics Master Plan for the City in 2004-2005 as Vice President of Water Technology, Inc. Working with GreenPlay, feasibility analysts, and Studio Architecture, A number of older existing pools needed to be closed. The 21 pools in the system was recommended to be reduced to 12 with several new generation pools taking their place. Scott had designed, while at Water Technology, the gem of the City’s pools at Earlywine Park. As the first new generation Family Aquatic Center, it draws more attendance than any of the other City Pools. New pools were planned at new regional parks. Several pools identified to be closed were to be replaced by spray parks. At one to three thousand annual attendance, it did not make sense for the City to keep these pools open.

Other Master Planning Experience:

In smaller cities, the replacement of an old pool becomes a planning effort to determine where the pool should be located, what size and configuration is appropriate for the community and what the bather load should be. Mr. Scott has done this work in Maumee, Ohio, Greenfield, Indiana, Orange Township, Ohio, Oak Lawn Park District, Illinois, Corvallis, Oregon and others.