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All baseball fields are set back a minimum of 800 feet from the nearest homes to the west. Field lights are approximately 60 and 80 feet in height. Four light poles are proposed for Field 6 and six poles for the larger Field 5. Amplified sound from announcing areas will be directed toward the viewing terraces and infields only. Announcing will consist of tabletop systems. Other proposed improvements include a restroom facility of approximately 500 square feet in floor area, 400 square feet of storage area, a tot-lot area with play equipment assemblies for two age groups, an adult seating cluster, accessible and lighted walkways to the parking areas, and perimeter landscaping and tree planting. Picnic tables and bench seating are proposed on the plaza level between the fields as well as along the major trails and walkways. Parking improvements include paving and lighting for 64 cars. In addition, a graveled overflow parking area for 48 cars is proposed. The Planning Commission has recommended that the overflow parking area also be paved. Staff notes that these 48 spaces are incorrectly shown on plans as not being included within the Project planning area. One dumpster enclosure is located within the paved parking area. A new approach road is planned to be constructed from the Valley Avenue and Laguna Creek Lane roundabout intersection, northward approximately 1,200 linear feet to the proposed parking lot. This section of roadway, identified as an extension of Pleasanton Avenue, includes two 55-foot radius roundabouts with two points of access to the proposed recreational area. Improvements include paved travel lanes and continuous curb on one side, with slotted curb and bio-swales on the other; and infrastructure, including street lighting, joint trench, water, sewer, and storm drainage sized to service the Project as well as build out of all future park improvements north of Valley Avenue, east of the Walnut Hills neighborhood, south of Bernal Avenue, and west of the Union Pacific Railroad tracks. No on-street parking is proposed. Architectural design for the baseball related structures is proposed to be provided through "design development," with the exception of the restrooms, baseball equipment storage building, and trash enclosure. "Green Building" design, construction and maintenance features will be integrated into the construction of architectural and landscape design elements. Proposed storm and irrigation water management features include both surface bio-swales and underground drain line systems. The baseball fields will have quick-drain sub-grades and under-field drain lines that connect to the existing storm line stub at the Valley Avenue roundabout. Pipe flows will then enter the existing storm water detention basin next to 1-680 where natural filtration will occur. Other landscape areas will incorporate bio-swales, as feasible, to better clean surface flows before filtrating into the soil and drain inlets. Slotted curbs along the new approach road will allow runoff to drain into the bio-swale system and may drain into the City's re-aligned Bemal Channel Project (not a part of this Project). SR 05:195 Page 3