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, """",-.- ~-\'5'-2 '. salt, and settling soils; suggested use of tough plants and that pedestrian circulation tie into street pattern; necessity of easy surveillance for area; view to the water be maintained; suggested no parking along curbs at curved portion of site so that youngs- ters could not dart out from parked cars; and consideration of - ~ w~at use is planned for tñe adjoining Brod property~ Mr. Sue "then presented suggested plans for ~rli~L~~ (4.1 acres) . which is adjacent to the Belmont K-6 school site of approx. 6 acres, citing the same considerations as for Dolphin Park plus the-joint city-school cooperative use invo1vement. Included in -plans were a soft bâll field, ~tennis court, training pool, rec- reation building, and parking and notation that an adjacent tots play equipment, lawn and beach area is now under construction. , - Cost for development of the two parks - Dolphin and Marlin- would be in the range of $20,25,000 per acre. ~ ~ ,. Discussion included commendation to aity Manager Ullrich, .the co~ssion, and the city, for procuring the services of Ribera & Sue: compliments to Ribera & Sue -for their presentation ~and planning, that Ribera & Sue will prepar e a total park system for City with a long range view as to park and recreation needs and' commission concerns; that other than water-oriented recre-a- tion must be provided; importance of rest room facilities -in park planning which should be built initially and not added at a --tater time: tbat Ribera & Sue will work closely with ~). "~.t -').t A'f_" o't., main- tenánce people; that park sites are not large enough to provide adequately for expected population; that community parks should start at 25 acres and -~hat presently none are included in plans for the area; that the Belmont ,school site is sub-standard in size, as is the adjacent park site; that high activity sites must be prov1ded for areas, etc. , - Chairman stuart thanked Mr. Ribe.ra and Mr. Sue for appearing and encouraged their attending Commission meeting the 1st Wednesday of each 1Tlontb 1:0 apprise the commissioners of what is going on. . -- -(Mr. Ribera and Mr. Sue left meeting at 9:25 p.m.) AGENDA 1 - LAND BANK - Detailed reRort: City Manager Ullrich 1 1>..-- 7.1__- 1__- - said that Councilman Paul Keckley had been unable to attend to- nights meeting and had asked him to come. Mr. Ullrich advised - - that the Leslie Properties dedication policy re neighborhood' parks (."land-bank It) to î:he total Shores project was 150 acres, plus or minus; that agreement became effective in Dec. L967: that presently 26.9 acres are in the plans for neighborhood parks (5) whereas 11.1 acres are required to the present point, ana that the uland bank" is over by 15.8 acres: that estimated pop- ulation from Bayshore to She11 Blvd. is 4,440 with approx. 5~~ of the uland bank It allocation being used to serve about 1/3 of the þppulation-(Steinberger allocation: 50 acres; Bair Island: 100 acres): that it had been agreed that when the Shores pro-