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Show Park Improvement Plans Outlined at Workshop cutting primitive trails through the area. The area above City Cemetery, according ac-cording to plans, would be left mostly natural with horse and hiking trails and view areas. Gamble Oak Park north of Deer Valley which the City is trying to buy from the BLM would also be kept mostly natural with horse and hiking trails and a small parking area. The study also suggests the City develop the recreation facilities in the Memorial Building. Planners urged the City to tie down as soon as possible the easements over which the bike path and horse trails will run and to move ahead soon with Rotary Park usine the manpower resources of local Rotanans. A final draft of the parks and recreation master plan will be forthcoming in the next few weeks and a final presentation will be made. Approximately 30 residents turned out Monday evening for a final public workshop on Park City's forthcoming parks and recreation master plan. The plan is being prepared by Colorado planning firm Gage-Davis Assoc. and should be in its final form by the end of this month. The development plans for the City's parks that were presented Monday night refined drawings of the suggestions made by residents resi-dents who attended the first workshop of the subject in the fall. At that time those who attended the workshop toured existing and proposed public recreation facilities and park sites. After the tour the group was given platted maps of each site and asked to draw in the developments they deemed necessary and beneficial to the community. Jeff Winston of Gage-Davis who is spearheading the effort told residents Monday their original ideas were "very well thought out" and for ine most part "were carried out into the final drafts. Winston and his associates detailed the proposed development deve-lopment of the City's parkland park-land and gave approximate costs for each and listed what his group felt were Park City's park priorities. Winston felt the expansion and development of City Park should be the City's top priority. The proposal calls for the park to be expanded from approximately 7 to 22 acres. Plans show the park broken into northern and southern sections with the Miners' Hospital in the middle. The north end would be the active end of the park with a rugby-soccer field, two sottball diamonds, three tennis courts, basketball standards, volleyball pit, children's playground and a 5,000 sq. ft. recreation building for offices, rest-rooms, rest-rooms, snack bar storage etc. The south end of the park would be a more passive area for quiet sports activities, community events and picnics. pic-nics. The plans show Silver Creek meandering through the sound end with a network of ponds. The area would be reforested to create a natural mountain like setting. An alternative plan showed a public swimming pool in the park and another showed an ice arena-convention center cen-ter on the site. The planners felt neither the ice arena nor the pool should be located there because it compromised compromis-ed other facilities and created creat-ed heavy parking demands. The cost of developing City Park according to plan-A without the pool or ice arena is estimated by the planners to be just over $2 million. Aside from an expenditure of SiSOJKH) money is available from I lie ,May bond issue to provide access, parking and landscaping for the area around the Miners' Hospital-Library. Hospital-Library. The cost of developing develop-ing the north end of the park including a parcel known as the Monroe site across Snow Country Dr. is estimated to be approximately $1.4 million. mill-ion. The south end developments develop-ments are thought to cost $600,000. Winston said the City must very shortly decide if the Monroe site is to be included in the plan and then decide whether the park is to be the location for either a public swimming pool or ice arena. He suggested the City immediately move ahead with landscaping plans around the Hospital-Library and then as finances permit begin with the improvements at the north end of the park. He thought the work could be staged over a long range plan. In addition to City Park, the planners made presentations for Rotary, Prospector, Gamble Gam-ble Oak Parks, the land above City Cemetery, Glen-wood Glen-wood Cemetery and the 10 acre old sewer plant site which the city owns. Plans also showed a public wildlife easement along Kimball Creek from Mt. Air Cafe north to the city limits .plus an intricate network of bike paths and horse trails connecting con-necting North and South Park City. For a cost of around $80,000 to $100,000, limited parking and restrooms would be added to Rotary Park at the end of Payday Dr. The plans projected the area as being kept mostly natural with an area of mowed grass and a few picnic tables and barbecues. barbe-cues. Very little was proposed for Glenwood Cemetery except for groomed trails, some sitting areas and possibly a fence with formal entrance. The improvements to the five acre now undeveloped Prospector Park would include in-clude parking, restrooms, some mowed lawn area, picnic tables etc. The stream would be restored to its natural state and dammed in places to create ponds for fish and w ildlife. Half of the area would be developed as a natural wetlands area or wildlife preserve with natural natu-ral vegetation and facilities to encourage wildlife to settle in the area. There would be trails through the area and places to sit and fish or observe the wildlife. If the land controlled by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) that adjoins the park to the east can eventually be obtained the area could become a significant natural wildlife preserve. As far as the sewer plant site was concerned, the planners recommend selling approximately half of the site and retaining the portion through which Kimball Creek Hows. They recommended recom-mended returning the creek lo its natural state and |