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• WHEREAS, city officials participated in the University planning process and the city planning commission and city council reviewed the Master Plan for its consistency with the city's comprehensive planning goals prior to the plan's adoption by the Board of Regents; WHEREAS, the Master Plan, as presented for public review and approved by the Regents, identifies a continued use for the soccer fields and open space on the southwest quadrant of Cleveland and Larpenteur Avenues (Cleveland site); WHEREAS, the 1998 University proposal to build a women's soccer stadium on the Cleveland site to replace the temporary women's soccer facilities conflicts in several ways with the Master Plan, in specific it conflicts because soccer fields are not defined as the same land use as athletic facilities or soccer stadiums either in general planning terms or in the Master Plan as noted in the text and illustrated in the diagrams for future development of the Cleveland site; WHEREAS, upon selecting the Cleveland site for a women's soccer stadium in 1998, the University failed to follow its procedures for amending the Master Plan which include a review of all building projects for their • consistency with the Master Plan and a detailed series of additional steps prior to approving projects that do not conform to the Master Plan, like the women's soccer stadium; WHEREAS, under any circumstances, siting active recreational facilities like a soccer stadium requires a careful analysis of the use and its relationship to the site and surrounding properties; WHEREAS, the proposed women's soccer stadium on the Cleveland site is inconsistent with national and local community land use planning principles for locating active recreational uses because of its proximity to residential property; WHEREAS, the proposed women's soccer stadium on the Cleveland site provides no room for expansion, inadequate parking facilities, and no developed plans for access and noise control; WHEREAS, the City believes that supporting and promoting women's intercollegiate athletic facilities requires locating these women's facilities where they maximize the opportunities for the program's growth and minimize the opportunities for conflicts and constraints on the program due • to conflicting land uses;