Lewisville wants to buy nearly six acres along Fox Creek so it can build a footbridge into Raldon Park, and it is asking the City Council for the power to take the land through eminent domain if talks with the owner fail.
The resolution is item 8 on the council's Monday, Nov. 16, agenda. The meeting starts at 6:45 p.m. at Lewisville City Hall.
The gap
Raldon-Lake Cities Park covers 11 acres at 800 Foxwood Place, west of Interstate 35E and just south of Fox Avenue. It has a playground, a pavilion, a basketball court and a short interior walking trail, and a paved path links it to Central Park and the Timber Creek Trail.
Residents of the North Shore Villas and Lakeland Terrace 2 neighborhoods live close by but cannot walk there because Fox Creek is in the way, according to a memo from Parks and Recreation Director Stacie Anaya. A 2025 feasibility study by Kimley-Horn, which included a community meeting with residents on both sides of the creek, laid out three possible bridge locations.
The city chose a blend of two of them that it says reaches the most people.
That route crosses two parcels between the creek and the dead ends of Creekside Drive and Brook Cove Lane. Staff says the bridge, trail and land purchase would give about 1,110 residents a park within a 10-minute walk. Keeping the land open would also soak up floodwater, protect trees and native habitat, and help offset heat and pollution near the interstate, the memo says.
