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4 Page 5 Planning and Zoning Commission October 24, 1979 would appear to .fulfill this function, and was located near the center of the city. Mr. Zelinka felt that eventually two such parks would be needed --City Hall Park, and.an additional one for the southeast corner of the city. A Special Use Park wduld provide facilities for,a particular use, such as,a golf course,swimming beach, archery range, snowmobiling,.etc.. This would be determined by whatever was needed and the city wanted to,provide. A swimm- ing beach was one of the most popularspecial use facilities. Mr. Short briefly reviewed the 1974 plan, and indicated it hed,used a system approach similar;to.this one. It hadbasically designated neighborhood. and community parks, and neededito,be,updated., He next reviewed the proposed, draft plan. He indicated that tot lots would not be addressed very much, as the need for these was diff:icultito anticipate,and questioned whether tot. lots like the one in Sunset Oaks would be in demand. As,a basis for desig- nating the need,for neighborhood parks, he had divided the: city intoneigh- borhoods, which were basically defined by barriers of roadways, as,parents were uncomfortable with school -age children, theheaviest users of, this type of park, crossing major roadways unsupervised. He had used the land use plan as a basis to work from, eliminating' the open space and rural areas, which, left'primarily.the urban service districts and the southeast corner of the city, with a couple exceptions. The barriers, were the more heavily travelled roadways such as the interstates,state highways and county roads. The first four neighborhoods were defined by the intersection of Main Street and Lake Drive in the northwest, with the four, quadrants as the four neighborhoods. The next neighborhood was the Sunset Oaks and Airpark area,which was oddly shaped because the barriers weren't too substantial, although Lilac could be considered a barrier. Moving south, the Lakes Addition andolder parts of the community south of the interstate and west of Lake Drive constituted another neighborhood. Thenext area was the southwest corner of the city, North of Birch St. and south of the lakes consitituted two neighborhoods, one east of Reshanau Lake and one west. Because of the odd shape,and the diffi- culty of traveling from one area to the other because of the barrier of the lake, they were considered as two separate areas. South of Birch Street in the Shenendoah area was another neighborhood. Between the west city line. and. Highway 49 was a corner which formed a neighborhood, and also east across Highway 49 was another area. Moving to the southeastcorner of the city, the interstate divided the area into two neighborhoods, one east •and one west. if there were more bridges across the interstate, they would not necessarily need to be divided this way. Another area, designated rural residential on the land use plan, was just north of Centerville and east of Pelletier Lake; this was really too small to warrant a city park, but Mr. Short felt the need could be met by working with the city- of Centerville to provide joint. facilities. Coordination with Centerville should also be considered for La- Motte. Mr. Short addressed each of these neighborhoods as far as the need for a neighborhood park. Area 1 was larger than a section, running about a mile from Main Street up to the north city line. City Hall Park, at the very southern end of this neighborhood, would fulfill the neighborhood park needs for part of this area, butit would be a substantial distance for residents noth of Pine Vista or by Rondeau.Lake, especially in view of the wetlands dividing the area. He indicated the city might want to consider providing some kind of park in the upper area as the need developed. The question was raised as to whether it was reasonable to provide a park when residents had large lots; Mr. Short -indicated that one unit per five or ten acres would