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Design Alternatives The City's consultants prepared four potential design alternatives that attempted to meet these goals. The design alternatives contained varying replacement locations for the existing Chan Henderson bandstand to maximize seating for event participants, as well as including the regional trail through the parks and other aesthetic and design improvements meant to increase efficiency and access to park features. Of the four alternative concepts, the City Council directed staff to further study three of the options and to present the designs to the Parks and Recreation Commission for review, to develop a final draft design that would meet the needs of the permitting agencies. The three options were: • Option A: Embrace the Creek — move the bandstand to the northwest corner of Lions Wayside Park, near the Firehouse Arts Center, with the creek approximately in its current location • Option B: Creek Access — move the bandstand to the northwest corner of Lions Wayside Park, near the Firehouse Arts Center, with the creek relocated further to the south • Option C: Larger Lawn — move the bandstand to the south end of Lions Wayside Park, with the creek in approximately the same location as it is currently. On December 18, 2018, the City Council approved an agreement with Moore, lacafano, and Goltsman, Inc. (MIG) to study the design alternatives and develop the concepts further. The principal in charge of landscape architecture for MIG, Richard Larson, is the same landscape architect that developed the Master Plan for the parks. On January 10, 2019, staff presented the concept alternatives to the Parks and Recreation Commission. The Commission recommended Option B and to maximize the lawn/concert viewing space. Following the meeting with the Parks and Recreation Commission, staff and the consultants amended the schematic designs to align with feedback from the Commission and prepared for a subsequent meeting to solicit additional feedback from the necessary regulatory agencies on the refined designs. At the same time that the City refined the conceptual design for Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks, staff updated the Trails Master Plan. The Trails Master Plan incorporated the updated regional trail alignment as shown in the concept alternative recommended by the Parks and Recreation Commission at its January 2019 meeting; the City Council subsequently adopted the Trails Master Plan in May 2019. Over the course of the next few years, City staff and its consultants worked with the RWQCB through several design iterations and provided further documentation to try to meet the requirements specified by the RWQCB. During that same period, the City purchased properties at 4363 and 4377 First Street with the expectation of incorporating the properties into the Lions Wayside and Delucchi Parks design. The City was also required to remove the giant blue gum eucalyptus (Eucalyptus globulus) tree in Lions Wayside Park due to disease and safety concerns after a large, several-ton tree limb fell from the tree onto the heavily used grass area Page 4 of 9