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having limited funding at this time. we wanted to make sure whatever we spend money on now we don t rip out. we want to do something better in the future. and also trying to balance both the natural area s needs and recreational amenities needs. i have a slide here, can i show you, the canyon itself is special in a sense because it is in fact a canyon and it has limited flat area. flataire is areas usually used for ball fields and athletic fields and other facilities that serve active recreation, and most of the canyon is quite steep and offers natural environmental resource that is we want to make sure we don t harm. i want to talk about the outreach. again we had a series of community meetings. six public community meetings. in addition we had three trail planning workshops. a trail walk, several focus groups, an online park youth survey where we got hundreds of responses, in addition we had over 100 email comments and written comments that provided feedback as we wen ....
affect these trees. at the same time we provide new trees that are more appropriate to the area. because right now those large eucalyptus drop on to the tennis court right a bit. and again one has fallen across the tennis court and one has fallen on the street. it s one of the houses you can see in that image. here s the new playground in yellow and the new tennis courts in green. . there s the location of the old tennis courts. commissioner harrison: thank you. we do have public comment. ashley hathaway. good morning, commission. i m here basically as a representative from the glen park association board of directors. of which i am a member of the board. as park and recreation co-chair. you-all have a copy of our letter in support of these improvement plans. both for the trails and for the general park improvement plan. we just as a board want to reiterate that we support. we are generally in support of these plans. however we do recognize there are some community ....
two trees have already fallen. one on to a house across the street and one across the tennis court. jim clark has gone out and looked at these trees. they are problematically swailted for that reason, but also the situated for that reason, but also the tennis court situation which would open up this area. so this came up at the last community meetings and we discussed it. in addition the glen park association asked myself and t.p.l. to come out an speak to the community about this. we talked about the fact that with the relocation of the tennis court, a few trees would be affected. would be he removed. and we provided these images on the website, on that bulldog blog i talked about to discuss the fact that this would result in that. as you can see currently the tennis courts are located just right beside the ball field. so by pushing them back we would affect these trees. at the same time we provide new trees that are more appropriate to the area. because right now ....
neighbors the pros and consequence different things we were evaluating. here s an image of one of the trail walks, the group that started on a trail walk one day. it s a very large park. over 66 acres. and again has both natural landscapes and creek that runs through the middle of it and under the portion of the park and lower part of the site active recreational elements which will go into more detail. so the lower part of the park is the part that i think a lot of people think of when they go with their families and engage in sports and those kinds of activities. the lower part of the park includes both a main entry, children s play air areas, tennis court, wreck center, and athletic field. it was our desire through this process to find a way that we could improve those features and also not compromise them. currently the fields are a bit under sized and they are right up against the tennis court. the play ground is quite small. and does not meet current safety recomm ....
i also like to mention the last time this was heard at the capital committee, julie wanted me to reiterate the supervisor s participation and support of the process and also we are going to continue to work with both the m.t.a. and the p.u.c. to try and make find funding to add as many improvements as we can to the first portion of the project. the p.u.c. may be very interested in funding some of the daylighting of the creek and the ball field renovation, guess there s an opportunity to provide water storage for further irrigation, store water to irrigate the ball fields. that s something they are interested in partnering with us on. the m.t.a. would like to partner with us for some of the improvements. thank you. commissioner buell: thank you. commissioner harrison? commissioner harrison: just a question. i noticed that there s some concern about tree removal. he yes. commissioner harrison: how have you addressed that? great. i have a couple of slides. this is ....