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City of Eugene /4J Youth Sports Parks and Athletic Fields — Meeting Agenda <br /> September 16, 1999 <br /> Page 3 <br /> NEIGHBORHOOD IMPACTS & POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS <br /> 1. Many neighborhood concerns are common to all proposed parks sites, and include issues such <br /> as parking, traffic, noise, glare from lights, litter and crime. Many of these can be mitigated by <br /> thoughtful planning and design, others through thoughtful management strategies. The <br /> following list describes some of these approaches: <br /> Parking and Traffic <br /> Design Solutions: <br /> • Encouraging access from existing parking through appropriate site design. <br /> • Encourage bicycle traffic by providing more bike parking and covered bike parking. <br /> • Improving on -site signage relating to access and parking for park and school facilities. <br /> • Re- painting yellow curb no- parking areas. Is this in the project? <br /> • Controlling parking in residential areas through a perimeter fence and gates with <br /> limited access (specific hours, keys, cards, codes ?) <br /> • Locating entrance to multi -use synthetic surface athletic fields away from <br /> neighborhoods and closer to appropriate parking and main park entrance. <br /> Noise <br /> Design Solutions: <br /> • Developing lowest- intensity park uses adjacent to residential areas <br /> • Locating high - activity uses centrally in park, further from abutting neighbors <br /> • Provide landscape and tree buffers between high - activity use areas and abutting <br /> residential areas. This should be discussed. It is counter to security strategies. <br /> Lights <br /> Design Solutions: <br /> • Specifying the use of only low glare, uni- directional lights for the multi -use synthetic <br /> surface athletic field <br /> • Providing landscape and tree buffers between high - activity use areas and abutting <br /> residential areas (also to reduce noise). This should be discussed. It is counter to <br /> security strategies. <br /> • Orient lighting away from nearest residential areas <br /> Litter <br /> Design Solutions: <br /> • Providing adequate trash receptacles throughout the site <br /> Crime <br /> Design Solutions: <br /> • Providing good park lighting along main pedestrian corridors and high -use areas <br /> • Applying principals of Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED - <br /> pronounced Asep -ted@ (see attached article), including natural surveillance, natural <br /> access control, and natural territoriality <br /> • Locating activities appropriately <br /> Filename: PUBMTGAG.DOC <br />