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Park. -The Master Plan represented the results of an extensive community planning <br />process begun in October 2006. On September 2, 2008, the City adopted core <br />objectives concerning the proposed uses of the Community Park. The Existing Specific <br />Plan Alternative would be inconsistent with the Master Plan's objective for the <br />Community Park to include an ice skating facility. <br />The Existing Specific Plan Alternative is also infeasible because it does not provide the <br />significantly greater social and economical benefits to the City associated with an ice <br />skating facility. Thus, the Existing Specific Plan Alternative fails to provide the following <br />economic and social benefits: <br />• A City sales tax revenue that would increase when visitors come from out <br />of town to ice center special events and do business at local hotels, <br />stores, and restaurants. <br />• Retail sales tax dollars that would be generated by the ice center <br />restaurant and retail shop. <br />• The funds offered by the ice center developer to construct a substantial <br />share of the remainder of the 17 acre Community Park. <br />• The social benefits resulting from the preferred project related to the <br />relating to health, education, recreation, family life, and special needs <br />provided by a variety of ice skating activities, including: <br />• Public skating sessions <br />• Public school physical education classes and possible future <br />competitive team practices and games <br />• City Park and Recreation Department programs <br />• Private class skating lessons <br />• Youth and adult hockey practices and games for men, women, <br />boys, and girls <br />• Figure skating <br />• Speed skating <br />• Curling <br />• Synchronized skating <br />• Ice dancing <br />• Olympic level figure skating instruction and practice <br />io <br />Findings and Statement of Overriding Considerations <br />