AUBURN — A team of volunteer landscape architects will help city residents create a vision of what a park on the riverfront could look like.

Mayor Jonathan LaBonte said the architects will host a design forum from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in the Community Room at the Barker Mill Arms housing complex on Mill Street. The forum will be open to the public.

“The goal will be to come up with a vision, not a detailed set of engineering or plans, but an idea of what we could do,” LaBonte said.

The architects are doing the project pro bono, part of National Landscape Architects Month.

“The Society of Landscape Architects here in Maine, they typically look for a project to raise awareness about their field,” LaBonte said.

The group contacted the National Park Service in Brunswick to find a community that could benefit from some free design. The Androscoggin Land Trust — LaBonte is executive director of that group — suggested Lewiston-Auburn, and the society agreed.

“With so much work going on with Lewiston’s Riverfront Island and the New Auburn Master Plan going forward, they latched right on to that concept,” LaBonte said.

The group will listen to comments from residents and sketch them together to design a signature park. He expects New Auburn business owners, residents and city officials to attend.

“They’ll literally be drawing things on the fly, creating renderings and concepts of what a park space could look like,” LaBonte said.

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