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D R A F T M A S T E R P L A N F O R T H E D P T S <br />BACKGROUND <br />PURPOSE OF THE MASTER PLAN <br />In 1997, City staff decided to review the design issues for the seven sites within <br />the Downtown Parks Trails System Master Plan as part of a single process. All pro- <br />ject sites are in the downtown area, and each site is related to the others. Some sites <br />relate directly, being adjacent (e.g., the Regional Trail Corridor, Fire Station No. 1, and <br />Wayside Park); some are connected by the other elements of the project (DeLucchi <br />Park and Main St. Green are "connected" by the Regional Trail Corridor and the <br />Arroyo del Valle). <br />The city's downtown is a neighborhood on its own and also a central part of the <br />entire city. For this reason, the perspective of the DPTS Master Plan has been to treat <br />all the sites as neighborhood entities as well as community resources. Wayside and <br />DeLucchi Parks, on the north and south side of Neal St. at First St. (and on the <br />Regional Trail Corridor), serve as a good example. These two parks are treated as a <br />joint facility that can benefit its immediate neighborhood (downtown to the west, res- <br />idential to the east). Also, together they are considered to be a community park that <br />should serve the city (the parks include the Regional Trail, the performing arts venue <br />of the bandstand, and the many uses of a renovated Fire Station No. 1). <br />The DPTS Master Plan provides a set of coordinated recommendations for these <br />different sites in the downtown area. The recommendations can be used by the City <br />to guide future improvements. Construction documents for a new park, for example, <br />will be based on the general design direction set forth in the DPTS Master Plan. Sim- <br />ilarly, revisions and updates to the Downtown Specific Plan may be guided by portions <br />of the DPTS Master Plan's goals and recommendations. <br />BACKGROUND <br />S <br />