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Workshop Report/Findings: CHURCHILL /KENNEDY Date: Saturday, May 15' Time: 8:30 am until 12 noon Participants: Approximately 30 Desired Benefits • Providing opportunities for youth, family, and community social interaction; • Building a stronger sense of community; • Providing healthy and positive activities for youth as alternatives to anti- social behavior; • Providing opportunities for personal health and fitness; • Providing diverse recreational opportunities to meet a variety of user needs; • Providing accessible and affordable facilities and programs for neighborhood and community youth; and • Enhancing public safety in parks and neighborhoods. Preferred Recreation Facilities • Improve existing facilities to enhance playability, such as drainage and irrigation for softball fields, soccer, and football practice fields; • Develop new facilities, such as additional basketball courts, a skateboard park, and multi -use fields; • Include park -type amenities, such as restrooms, children's play area, picnic areas, and walking paths; and • Provide adequate support facilities, such as parking and lighting. Neighborhood Impacts to Address • Ensure continued high level of public safety for surrounding residences; • Discourage use of residential streets for park - related traffic and parking; • Develop low- intensity park uses in areas with close proximity to single family homes and site high- activity uses further from abutting neighbors to reduce off -site impacts of noise and traffic • Encourage access from existing parking; FINDINGS Based on these comments, Parks Planning staff developed preliminary concept plans that include the following components: • Developing new recreation facilities: • Basketball court (1); • Skateboard park; • Soft- surface and hard- surface paths; and • Softball field complex for three renovated fields. • Improving existing recreation facilities to improve playability: • Tennis courts; • Large soccer fields (2); • Providing diverse park - related amenities: • Children's play equipment; • Covered area for group picnics, bicycle parking, and restrooms; • Perimeter landscaping and street tree plantings; and • Benches, water fountains, and pedestrian lighting.