Title:
Title
Meadows Park Master Plan Amendment
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FileID
File ID: 2019-00041
Location
Location: District 1
Recommendation:
Recommendation
Pass a Motion approving the amended Meadows Park Master Plan.
Contact: Tin-Wah Wong, Associate Landscape Architect, (916) 808-5540, Raymond Costantino, Park Planning and Development Services Manager, (916) 808-1941; Department of Youth, Parks, & Community Enrichment
Body
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Meadows Park Master Plan Amendment
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The proposed Meadows Park is an 11.2-acre community park located at 1840 North Breezy Meadows Drive in the Natomas Meadows Community of North Natomas.
The Meadows Park Master Plan was approved in 2006. Based on a recent community meeting, certain features of the Master Plan were requested to be changed. The revised Meadows Park Master Plan would delete the lighted baseball field and two full size basketball courts and instead add a community garden, dog park and two half basketball courts. The dog park will include a large dog park (1.5 acres) and a small dog park (0.5 acres).
The remaining components of the Master Plan remain unchanged. They include a group picnic area with shade shelter, picnic seating areas, an adventure play area with fabric canopy, a tot lot with fabric canopy, a lighted softball field, two lighted tennis courts, a restroom building, a common green area, walkways, decomposed granite jogging path with shade trees and water efficient landscaping, informal turf areas, an urban forest, a garden arbor, a concrete seat wall with public art, a fountain wall, and on-street parking (70 spaces).
Policy Considerations: On August 29, 2006, the City Council adopted the "Meadows Park" name and the Meadows Park Master Plan for this park (Resolution No. 2006-0646).
Providing parks and recreation facilities is consistent with the City's strategic plan to achieve sustainability and livability and to expa...
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