{"id":490150,"date":"2026-01-03T20:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490150\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:03:10","slug":"watauga-approves-design-plan-for-food-truck-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/490150\/","title":{"rendered":"Watauga approves design plan for food truck park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"&quot;byline&quot;\">by Scott Nishimura, Fort Worth Report <br \/>January 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Editor\u2019s note: Transcript provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2025\/08\/29\/new-fort-worth-ai-firm-offers-way-to-report-on-thousands-of-public-meetings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CoverGov<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Watauga Economic Development Corp. approved a design and construction plan for a food truck park at the city\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cowtx.org\/1051\/Capp-Smith-Park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Capp Smith Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dunaway Associates, the Fort Worth engineering firm, is handling design for the $2.5 million project. It will include parking lot expansion, food truck spaces and infrastructure amenities, performance stage and structure, and improvements to site lighting, picnic area, restroom, and landscape and irrigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic Development Corp. <a href=\"https:\/\/wataugatx.portal.civicclerk.com\/event\/1853\/media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voted 5-0 at its Dec. 16 meeting <\/a>to approve the design and construction plan.<\/p>\n<p>Capp Smith Park has a spring-fed stocked lake and several other amenities: amphitheatre, park benches, playground, splash pad, and restrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Nishimura is a senior editor at the Fort Worth Report.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about how the transcript that informed this report was created, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/covergov.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">covergov.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you believe anything in these notes is inaccurate, please email us at news@fortworthreport.org with \u201cCorrection Request\u201d in the subject line.<\/p>\n<p>This &lt;a target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/01\/03\/watauga-approves-design-plan-for-food-truck-park\/&#8221;&gt;article&lt;\/a&gt; first appeared on &lt;a target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/fortworthreport.org&#8221;&gt;Fort Worth Report&lt;\/a&gt; and is republished here under a &lt;a target=&#8221;_blank&#8221; href=&#8221;https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/&#8221;&gt;Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License&lt;\/a&gt;.&lt;img src=&#8221;https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fortworthreport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/cropped-favicon.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;amp;quality=80&amp;amp;ssl=1&#8243; style=&#8221;width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;&#8221;&gt;<\/p>\n<p>&lt;img id=&#8221;republication-tracker-tool-source&#8221; src=&#8221;https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/?republication-pixel=true&amp;post=338872&amp;amp;ga4=2820184429&#8243; style=&#8221;width:1px;height:1px;&#8221;&gt;&lt;script&gt; PARSELY = { autotrack: false, onload: function() { PARSELY.beacon.trackPageView({ url: &#8220;https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2026\/01\/03\/watauga-approves-design-plan-for-food-truck-park\/&#8221;, urlref: window.location.href }); } } &lt;\/script&gt; &lt;script id=&#8221;parsely-cfg&#8221; src=&#8221;\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/fortworthreport.org\/p.js&#8221;&gt;&lt;\/script&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"by Scott Nishimura, Fort Worth Report January 3, 2026 Editor\u2019s note: Transcript provided by CoverGov. 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