In summary, the site characteristics below are necessary for land to be suitable for the needed <br />community parks. <br />Location-based Site Characteristics: <br />Distribution.3 These characteristics provide for equitable distribution of parks within each of the <br />following planning sub-areas: <br />o Within the Bethel-Danebo parks planning area <br />❑ North of Barger Drive <br />❑ More than half a mile from existing community parks <br />o Within the River Road-Santa Clara parks planning area <br />❑ North of Randy Pape Beltline <br />Adjacency to urban residential neighborhoods. This characteristic provides a site that is safely <br />accessible to active modes of transportation, including walking and bicycling, as well as <br />maximizing the number of residents who are able to live in close proximity to the parks. <br />o Adjacent to an existing or planned urban residential neighborhood <br />Other Site Characteristics: <br />Size. This characteristic ensures that the future park sites are of an appropriate size for the <br />intended use: <br />o Minimum size of 40 acres, either independently or in association with a collocated <br />school facility <br />• Accessibility. This characteristic ensures that the future parks are fronting a street that carries <br />or is intended to carry higher volumes of traffic, has or will have a high degree of connectivity, <br />and provides or is intended to provide for pedestrian, bicycle and transit travel: <br />o Located on existing or planned collector or arterial street <br />• Geographic Attributes. This characteristic ensures that the future parks are suitable for <br />development, as evidenced by a sufficiency of the following attributes: <br />o Owned or available to be owned by the City for purposes of park <br />development <br />o Adjacent to an existing or planned school facility <br />o Presence of substantial natural features <br />Before evaluating land outside of the urban growth boundary, the City is required to determine whether <br />the park need can be met with land already within the UGB. For the two areas identified above under <br />characteristics of needed community park sites, the City evaluated possible sites within the urban <br />growth boundary. Each planning area is evaluated below. <br />Bethel-Danebo <br />As described by the "Distribution" characteristic above, the needed Bethel-Danebo site must be north of <br />Barger Drive and more than half a mile from an existing community park. Due to the configuration of the <br />current UGB, there are three separate areas of land inside the current UGB that meet these distribution <br />characteristics, shown in the map "Vacant and Partially Vacant Land - Bethel-Danebo." The northern <br />area (north of Clear Lake Road and west of Highway 99 (the eastern boundary of the Bethel-Danebo <br />s These distribution characteristics could have, alternatively, been a factor in establishing the study areas. <br />Appendix C to Findings May 2017 Page 6 <br />