RES 06035 - Laserfiche WebLink

Chapter 2 Project Description incremental planning strategy will allow sporting facilities to evolve along with the changing needs of the community, b. Open Space Framework The Bernal Property Phase II Specific Plan provides the context for the Bernal Community Park: a framework of forested open space within which mounded landforms, plant com- munities, trails and public art will form a coordinated network connecting Community Park facilities with one another and with the outlying Bernal Property "grand park," The open space framework is intended to create a more natural and intimate visual environment than typically characterizes sportsfields, reducing the visual impact of the turf areas by clustering the fields and providing forested areas between that connect to the surrounding grand park landscape, In this way, the turf and forested areas of the Community Park will meld with the forested and meadow areas of the surrounding grand park, thus giving a sense of one large, integrated open space, c. Other Master Plan Components (1) Vehicular Circulation The circulation system for the Bernal Community Park is described in the Master Plan, Part VI. The main vehicular access route into the Community Park (as well as into the entire eastern portion of the Bernal Property) will be the extension of Pleasanton Avenue southward from Bernal Avenue to Valley Avenue, The intersection of Pleasanton Avenue at Bernal Avenue is to become a major functional and aesthetic improvement. The design of the road is to include multiple turn lanes from Bernal Avenue into Pleasanton Avenue and vice versa (see Bernal Community Park Master Plan, Figure 18), The street section of Pleasanton Avenue will include two 13-foot wide travel lanes and two six-foot wide bikeways, (2) Parking Parking associated with the Bernal Community Park uses is to be provided around the perimeter of the Park via a series of small, non-rectangular shaped lots that are screened by mounding and landscape planting, No street parking is proposed, In addition, sharing of parking between public facilities within and outside of the Community Park is intended to reduce the overall need for parking spaces, It is anticipated that the Park facilities will share 250 on-and off-site parking with the potential cultural arts center (CAC) to the northeast, the potential youth/community center (YCC) to the east, and the "grand meadow" open space to the west. In addition, approximately 445 parking spaces are expected to be supplied on the potential CAC site, plus potentially 200 subsurface spaces that could be available for shared use by Community Park visitors outside of CAC theater performance times, These 200 spaces are to be constructed prior to the use of the third soccer field, 15