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PASSIVE COMMUNITY PARKS Position Paper |
Approved by the Gwinnett County Recreation Authority |
| Gwinnett County Georgia
-- We propose the adoption of a park type called Passive Community Parks.
Such a park would not have sports field complexes run by Youth Associations
with ball field lights and hundreds of supporting parking spaces. We would
not site Tennis or Basketball Complexes in Passive Community Parks. Community Parks have always included one or more organized sports field complex with an associated need to provide ball field lighting and hundreds of ball field related parking spaces. The acreage needed to accommodate such sports field complexes would so dominate a smaller park site that there would be little space left to provide facilities for the general public’s daily use. Additionally, the impact on park neighbors of placing sports field lighting within a densely developed existing residential area would be significant. Therefore, the typical program of a Community Park must be significantly altered to provide for general recreation and open space needs on a small site. |