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293 ( 2) Councilman Royer recommended that a committee of two councilmen, Two Planning Co~~ission members and two members of the Park and Recreation Commis3ion study the situation. It was understood that all three improvement clubs from this area were very happy over the way the City Council and Recreation CoIT~ission handled this matter. . Mr. Leonard Tornell of 1176 Westwood appeared before the Commission requesting the status of the Westwood Playground. Commissioner Gold reported that he spo1{e to t1r. Herbert F'romm and arrange~ents have been made to set ~takes within the next week and that the City Engineer will sign the approved map and work will no doubt get underway immediately. CHAIR~T~A.N STOUT reported on the proposed master plan recommendation whicÌl was brought up. at the last regl11ar meeting. He brought out three points; (1) What we are supposed to do?? (2) Vfuat was done?? (J) ~at is yet to be done?? All of this pertains to the fomer master plan and the bond funds allocated for park and recreation deve1o~ent set up in 1944. Chai~an Stout called on ilie various Commissi oners to expre ss the ir views. Comrnis si oner Case fee Is that all of Redwood City should be set up under one master plan and that both the city and the schools should be coordinated in setting up play areas throughout the city. He pointed out that the older part of Redwood City is still without play areas and with the tremendous growth unless some plan is set up it will be getting out of hands. Commissioner Hanley felt the same as Commissioner Case along these lines; felt we should retain a planner w~en setting up these areas. Commissioner Gold stated that we should consid,er the financial si tuation and stated that he spoke to the City Manger and City Clerk relative to this situation and both men agreed that it would cost a great 8Q~ of money to retain a planner for park and recreation facilities and it was their suggestion that local men in the field of parks and recreation could handle the situation at the pre~ent time. ... Con~issioner Gold felt it would be well to have someone inform the Commission just what the outermost boundaries of Redwood City would be in the years to come, that is if we could anticipate them in order that some proper plans for park and recreation areas could be set up. Commissioner Campbell felt that Com~issioner Gold, Case, and Hanley had covered this problem thoroughly. Commissioner Brerlnan agrees wi th the statements made by Commis sioner Gold. Commissioner Hector took the opposite view-point of the explanations made by the previous commissioners when he stated that when such large amounts of money are spent developing park and recreation B.reas that money was well spent when a competent planner assists in setting up the plans. He stated that if we hed foresight in future development we would save Money on the overall projects. Commissioner Case stated that we should request the City Council and Planning Commission to set aàlde areas for future recreation develo"qments. ChairMan Stout concluded that all points were well taken and that the commi ttee 1Nas not soli t on the Droblem and ~ ~ that he felt that if we had a plan we would not have the tpouble we are now having. lIe feels the ple.nning com!t15.ssion is not doing a good job as far as the recreation and park areas are concerned.