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• An article on the workshop was included in the City Council Newsletter, and the City Manager's <br />Office public meetings calendar. <br />• A news release was made to local newspaper, radio, and television stations the week prior to the <br />workshop. <br />Seven (7) people attend this workshop. <br />Discussion <br />GENERAL <br />The recent history of the park site was discussed with regard to how and why it was reconfigured to not <br />allow a new arterial street to bisect it. This was done in concert with the adjacent landowner's subdivision <br />application and has resulted in the mutual benefit to the developer as well as the future park site. <br />The general concept of a neighborhood park was discussed. According to the 1989 Eugene Parks and <br />Recreation Plan, a neighborhood parks should be within walking distance and thus serve approximately a <br />half-mile walking radius. A typical neighborhood park is normally between 3 and 5 acres in size, however <br />Candlelight is approximately 11.2 acres. It was explained because of the larger size, the ability to <br />accommodate more uses, including play fields, may cause a consideration to provide some limited on site <br />parking, especially if it was accessible parking. <br />The purpose of a neighborhood park is to: <br />_ Provide a location for neighborhood social, recreational and fitness activities. <br />_ Provide significant open space and identity for specific neighborhoods. <br />Typically, the kinds of facilities and features included in a neighborhood park are: <br />_ Playgrounds <br />_ Sports field(s) without lighting <br />_ Restrooms and storage areas <br />_ Hard surfaced court areas <br />_ Open lawn areas for informal play <br />_ Picnic areas <br />_ Other features dependent on such things as natural amenities, buffering requirements, <br />views, utility easements, etc. <br />_ Parking areas -only when on-street parking is too limited. <br />It was explained that larger or more intensively used facilities were generally not developed in <br />neighborhood parks, but in larger community and metropolitan parks. <br />ACCESS, CIRCULATION, PARKING <br />Royal Avenue is considered a significant bamer to people crossing from the south to use the park. It was <br />explained that the City is pursuing acquisition of a small neighborhood park on the south side of Royal to <br />serve these residents. Even so, it concerned people that Royal's traffic moved so fast, and kids using the <br />park site close to Royal would be exposed to this traffic danger. People seemed to agree that the active kid <br />use areas should be placed away from the Royal frontage. <br />Although no one in attendance was from the adjacent Daneland Mobile Home Park, it was explained that <br />the City believed making an accessible route between the park and the Daneland residents was important. <br />Currently a perimeter fence encloses the mobile home park. This fence would need to be modified and it <br />was not known if the Daneland Park managers would be agreeable to allowing this access. Direct contact <br />may be necessary to determine their interest in accessing the neighborhood park. One of the attendees <br />