Imagine how Oak Harbor’s Windjammer Park can be rebuilt and improved after the construction of the sewage treatment plant is complete.

Should the RV park return? Should the lagoon and the ballfields be moved or removed? What about adding a splash park, amphitheater or a community center?

City planners, consultants and a citizens advisory group are currently considering such questions in creating an integration plan for the park.

Development Services Director Steve Powers presented the Oak Harbor City Council with drawings and descriptions of three current concepts for the park during a workshop Wednesday.

The themes of the three concepts are “recreation,” “naturalistic” and “civic.”

“These are just concepts,” he emphasized. “They are just ideas of how things could go together. We are a long ways from a proposed alternative.”

The community can learn more about the concepts at a meeting of the citizens advisory group and a public open house 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 29 at the Elks Lodge.

Powers noted how large Windjammer Park truly is.

The park consists of 28.5 acres on the waterfront in downtown Oak Harbor. It was three little league ballfields, a swimming lagoon, an RV park, a waterfront trail, playground equipment and open space.

It also has an aging and odorous sewage treatment plant right stuck in the middle, to the consternation of many.

The old plant will be dismantled as the new sewage treatment plant is built adjacent to it.

The construction is ongoing and should be wrapped up as the plant comes online in 2018.

Wednesday, Powers explained that the planning for the park began with setting a framework of priorities.

The “given elements” that need to be in the park include parking, a kitchen, restrooms and a kayak campsite.

High-priority elements include an amphitheater, an event plaza, a splash park and a renovated lagoon.

Low priorities include a gazebo and a hard court.

The baseball fields are listed as a low priority, but the presentation notes they should be relocated outside of the park.

Likewise, the RV park is in a list of medium-priority items, which the noted that it should be located elsewhere.

The first concept, which is recreation focused, retains the RV park but doesn’t include the ballfields “as we know them today” but are reutilized into a multi-use area, Powers said.

The drawings show three full-sized soccer fields in the middle of the park and a reconfigured lagoon.

The second, naturalistic concept retains the ballfields but removes the RV park. It has a large open space with an amphitheater.

It moves the parking at the sewage treatment plant to the eastern corner of the park, “knitting together” the two sides of the park divided by City Beach Street and the current parking lot, Powers said.

The drawing shows a reconfigured lagoon with a pedestrian bridge over it.

The third, “civic” concept includes a community room, a large lagoon and a large “hardscape” or event plaza.

Powers noted that many people suggested they wanted better access to the beach, which is difficult with all the driftwood.

The concept includes a structure that allows people to easily walk over the driftwood to the beach.

Powers said the citizen advisory group’s goal is to work toward a single “preferred alternative” that will then be presented to the council.