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Exhibit 1 PARKLAND RECOMMENDATIONS Over the next 10 years, the City of Santa Ana will enhance its park system through new park acquisition and development, as well as through improvements, enhancements, and/ or restoration of existing sites. All parks and facilities also will require quality maintenance, and the desired maintenance level of service for a site may change once a park is developed or improved. All sites also will require the City's ability to replace or reinvest in amenities and facilities at the end of their lifecycles. The Park Master Plan describes these types of recommendations to support quality parks and recreation opportunities for all. A detailed site recommendations matrix, presented in Appendix C, identifies site interventions, capital projects, and maintenance needs for every existing and proposed park site for the City's future park system. It categorizes recommended capital projects to make it easier to identify the range and types of funding that may be needed to carry out these recommendations. (See Chapter 8 for details on estimated costs and funding options.) City Council PARKLAND RECOMMENDATIONS BY CATEGORY Appendix C defines recommended projects by type and presents a matrix to show how these recommendations apply to each existing and proposed park site. Recommended Site Interventions • Site Intervention: Explore opportunities to expand existing parks, enhance recreation features to attract residents from greater distances, and/or improve access to existing sites where noted. These are the interventions to existing parks that will help serve the park gap areas and increase parkland as noted in Chapter 4. The following apply to existing sites only: • Expand site • Enhance the park to serve a greater area (and attract residents from farther away) • Improve access 14-96 Recommended Capital Projects • Acquire/Develop: Where noted, obtain new parkland, design and develop parks (either alone or through partnership), and build new major facilities where recommended. Action items include: • Acquire or expand park • Master plan or design park • Develop park • Develop park or facility through partnership • Add major facility • Improve/Enhance: Renovate key parks to improve aging and old infrastructure and add to the recreation opportunities available at key sites. As noted in Appendix C, the scale of improvements may range from improving comfort amenities, to making minor or major site renovations, to renovating major facilities. Action items include: • Improve comfort amenities (benches, tables, restrooms, etc.) • Make minor enhancements • Make major enhancements • Renovate a major facility • Repair/Restore: Revitalize declining landscape areas and convert turf to native plantings to reduce water costs. Action items include: • Convert turf to native plantings • Enhance landscaping and plantings Ongoing Stewardship • Maintain: Provide a standard or enhanced level of maintenance for developed facilities and steward natural areas, lakes, and the tree canopy with particular attention on key sites with more extensive natural features. Different levels of maintenance are noted: • Standard maintenance • Enhanced maintenance • Natural resource stewardship • Reinvest/Replace: Set aside funding for the replacement of old, damaged, or worn facilities in all existing, planned, proposed and expanded parks to have funds on hand when needed. All sites should be included in asset management. 5/17/2022 ® SANTA ANA PARKS MASTER PLAN CHAPTER 7: SITE RECOMMENDATIONS