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MEMO TO: Mr. John Johnson, Public Works Director/Engineer FROM: Bruce K. Anderson, Director Parks, Recreation and Forestry DATE: September 2, 1982 RE: Gunnar Isberg and Associates Study STATUS OF CURRENT SERVICES A. From a park and recreation perspective, Mounds View's current public service delivery system is meeting the current demands of the residents. Although our current park facilities are not of the highest quality, they are able to meet the present recreational and leisure time demands for our community. B. Specific areas which are at capacity would include our recreation pro- grams on a year round basis. In addition our city forestry program is currently functioning at what I would consider an adequate level. Facilities that are currently being over atilized would include our adult softball program, as we currently dr, not have an adequate number of athletic fields to meet the adult softball demand. The two adult softball fields at City Hall are currently used to a greater level than the facilities were built for, which does not allow for city picnic or tournament usage. Our neighborhood parks are being used as "athletic complexes", which does not allow for local neighborhood play. Specific recreation facility needs that are not being met include youth soccer, football and hard court games; i.e. tennis, hard court volleyball, etc. We currently do not have any of the aforementioned facilities in the city park system excluding school district facilities. The other major area of which we have over utilization would be our indoor facilities. Staff did complete a detailed study of our current gym- nasium usages which has been included for your review. As can be noted, the indoor facility usage is currently inadequate during the peak time usage with the closing of feed Oak Elementary School. Specific diffi- culties that occur because of this gymnasium space shortage include overscheduling of teams in gym spaces and denial of many neighborhood as well as community group activities. Facilities that are currently under utilized would be school classroom facilities for a variety of community and recreation program uses and existing city warming house buildings beyond the ten or twelve week winter skating program. The question is raised as to what additional R-4 or single family res- idential impact would have on our current park system, especially for the over utilized areas. The impact would be felt greatest in the area of indoor activities where gymnasium space would be required as well as placing future greater demand on our recreation programming staff. Staff feels that with the addition of Silver View Park and the facilities that park will afford us, we will be able to meet all the needs of additional single family development with our current park system, except where