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Show ::;; Per:: Dsvolopmoot Tc:iin3 Piece In County By TOM BUSSELBERG FARM1NGTON - A shortage shor-tage of swimming pools and tennis courts still exists in Davis County, but some exciting ex-citing park developments are taking shape, the county park planner says. ACCORDING TO planner, Scott Carter, 'The shortage of swimming pools is probably the number one problem but the number of tennis courts, another big complaint, has started to catch up. Another big complaint is litter scattered scat-tered around the parks." Mr. Carter says that not only are more tennis courts being built, for instance, but some cities are taking innovative in-novative steps to create interesting parks. "In Kaysville they have a wooded hillside east of Highway 89 adjacent to the County Shops. It's going to have trails, a . bowery, open field area for Softball, a playground and restrooms." THE NEARLY 200 acre park will be probably the first in the county to make use of varieties in topography and landscaping, Mr. Carter says, with most parks already developed ignoring such possibilities. pos-sibilities. "I feel there are some big gaps in areas such as in the design where I think there's a little bit lacking. It's not inviting in-viting to sit in a flat space. There's too much emphasis on ballfields and not enough on a combination of development develop-ment although it's cheaper to just develop a field. Water is never thought of as far as a park," he says. "I don't think cities, except Clinton, use dual development develop-ment in park development. In Clinton they are developing storm water retention basins as parks." Citing the Kaysville park as "a new concept," Mr. Carter says "It's so large that people will be able to take advantage of it in a lot of ways with, hiking, equestrian trails, open play areas and a campground to bring in money to support the system. "I FOUND'their city council coun-cil is really responsive to park needs and they're seeking quality development for the town," he says, adding that improvements at Gailey Park were recently dedicated and city ball diamonds are being expanded along with development develop-ment of another park with tennis courts and a playground area. But Mr. Carter outlined park proposals for nearly every city in the county. In Layton, work is moving ahead, on a final phase for the Layton Commons. In Centerville, work is progressing on a park adjacent to the city hall, with more than $100,000 slated for park projects. He says a park on 700 East in that city "has a tremendous change in topography with the park on the hillside. That will be beautiful." IN CLEARFIELD, a park planned at 300 North 1000 West will be "designed to complement " a church and school with multiple-use potential, po-tential, Mr. Carter says. West Bountiful Is developing develop-ing another park, as is Syracuse and West Point is continuing work on a 20-acre park. PARKS PROVIDE recreation recrea-tion for most while proving to be a target for vandals, however, Mr. Carter says. "There's still a lot of vandalism van-dalism at Davis County Memorial Park. Several bags of cement were dumped into the creek, vandals broke out nearly all lights and they've tried to burn a new bridge." He says restrooms d' stroyed more than a year ago, won't be rebuilt due to cost and secluded location inviting vandalism. But he adds that use of the park is heavy. 'There's a lot of use of the ball diamonds and the boweries are always reserved ' solid from April to September." |