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I. BACKGROUND The overriding goal of Bernal Community Park is to create groupings of sports fields and related facilities within a forested framework of open space on approximately 50 acres of land. Park facilities are to be interconnected with one another and the outlying Bernal Property "grand park" through a coordinated system of mounded landforms, plant communities, trails and public art. A multi-use program of active sports facilities and activities is planned that is to remain flexible in order to respond to changing community recreational needs over time. Current local sports needs have resulted in the planning of lighted sports fields to accommodate baseball, soccer, football and lacrosse within the Community Park. A 1,000- seat amphitheater is also planned as a primary use to accommodate local outdoor performances and events. The setting in which the Community Park facilities are organized is planned to minimize the utilitarian appearance of sports fields and create a much more natural and intimate visual environment. This is to be accomplished through the development of a well-defined framework of linear forested open spaces and landforms surrounding clustered sports fields, This is intended to visually reduce the size of clustered turf areas by breaking them up into smaller components, as well as by blending forested areas with the outlying grand park landscape. In that way, the turf and forested areas of the Community Park will meld with the forested and meadow areas of the grand park, providing a sense of one large, integrated open space. The Bernal Community Park Master Plan is one of several master plans that are ultimately anticipated for the 318- acre City-owned Bernal Property. Similar planning is underway for the Youth/Community Center, and anticipated for other potential major public facilities on the property, such as a Cultural Arts Center and the overall open space lands. Community Park construction will be phased according to community needs and the availability of funding. Detailed site, architectural and landscape design plans for each phase will be prepared through the City's Planned Unit Development (PUD) process.