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>"'" :,;¡8 ¡',< t; t - ',that Redwood Ci ty has a fine cooperati ve program wi th schools and that schools add to recreational life of a city; what is ahead for a ¡livery old city" looking for~ard to many new things in the future-possibility of a state college, jùnior college, and ' Marine World: that his approach to the study won't satisfy everyone and all will not agree on his rec- _ommendations¡ ,that he had received excellent cooperation from city off- 'icials and departments; that each member of the Citizens Committee is in effect a city planner and thinking ôf betterment of city: ,thát we will have to adopt standards or norms - perhaps 10 acres of parks and recreatiòn areas per thousand people depending on density and how ratio of space is dispersed o~er areas: th~t for a'city with an ~pprox.60,'OOO population that there prob~bly, shou~dbe about 15 neigh1?o,r.hof?d park~ in addition to community parks: that he had seen our Community ,Park and + .felt perhaps that one such community park is not enough¡ special..use, parks, city wide in scope, for use as museums, natural areas, golf course, major swimming pool, zoo, etè: that needs or merits of type of parks would depend on ability and willingness to pay for them: that we would have to measure way city is headed by tradition, economy and expressed desires and would have to decide by vote on what we would want city to have: that survey would propose sta~dards but it would be up, to ci t,izens to exhibit to city officials what they-would be willing to pay fori that survey would attempt to formulate a master plan for 5 years or more. Mr. Winans introduced his associate, Mr. ,Ted Osmundson, landscape arch- itect from San Francisco, who noted that there are six guides and kinds of California: mountains, desert, vajlley,- metropoli tan a'nd rural: coast- al-metropolitan and rural; that we must look at what we have and eva.l- uate what we need and determine what we can have for ourselves with our resources. Mr. Osmundson gave ~ut copies of a report on IIRank of, Public Recreation Activities by Number of Cities Reporting and Program Potent- ial of a Neighborhood Recreation Park 11,- the report cover ingci ties - . throughout the United States, and urged that we not sell ourselves short by short term plans. Mr. Osmundson said that he had had a part in the design of the Mari,ne Wo:rld p~9ject planned for Redwood Shores. , . , " . Ch~~rman Beals announced that Mr. ~~~ans will submit plans from time to time and ~hat various ci~izens committees w~ll assist him. His prelim- inary plans to be a_vailable by June" 15' and f'inal plans by July 15th. Chairman Beals called a ten minute recess before proceeding to Comm- ission business. , ' On re-convening, Chairman Beals stated that city staff and city man- ager is behind committees and survey. City Manager Ullrich stated that he realized the urgency of the survey ahd need of planning £or future: that land prices continually go up and city should not wait too long to acquire needed property: that as far as funding is concerned that keeping outlay t9 a minimum would keep taxes down; that during last several months his office has reviewed plans of corporations and organizations~ planning to settle in Redwood