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08/10/2009 Saltworks 50150 Balanced Plan -- ,Executive Summary Overview of Application Submittal & Statement of Justification May 2009 Page 6 Additionally, the 50150 Balanced Plan includes a more than 50 -acre Sports Complex improved with at least 15 sports fields (e.g., soccer, baseball, softball, etc.). And, of course, the 50/50 Balanced Plan provides for over 400 acres of actively restored tidal marsh habitats. 3. Community Facilities Community facilities highlighted in the Statement of Justification include: Schools. Saltworks envisions the potential need for as many as four new elementary and one middle school appropriately distributed within the Saltworks Site. Design of these facilities would reflect experts' evolving views on curriculum and related physical configuration of urban campuses. • Branch Library + 4 -H Club and Farm • Community Garden /Edible School Yard • Interpretive Environmental Education Center • Tidal Marsh Restoration and Research Center • Fire Station • Place of Worship 4. Circulation As a grounding principle, -the 50/50 Balanced Plan is designed to get cars off of the road, not only as to future residents, but to alleviate existing congestion. Simply placing a meaningful array of housing options near existing employment centers is a tremendous start. Building from there, the 50/50 Balanced Plan aggressively explores the potential for public /private partnerships -- leveraging Saltworks' own private investment commitments -- for everything from a permanent transit system integrating the Saltworks Site with core City -wide destinations to home -to -work direct shuttle programs with major employment campuses to innovative ride -share programs. And as to existing circulation challenges (typified by the U.S. 101/woodside interchange), the 50 /50 Balanced Plan reallocates traffic loads by establishing a new parallel capacity road to U.S. 101 on the north, and similar proposed parallel 14958 MUFF # 601