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Ms. Dennis asked about the designation of twenty acres to meet the needs of the work force. Would those needs be made on one community park site or in many places? Ms. Bengtson indicated staff would be asking businesses for their input to m3ke sure the needs of the work force are met. Ms. Dennis asked if there would be a task force formed from the business community for its participation on potential uses. Ms. Bengtson explained that members from the work force would be invited to any future task force. Mr. Tarvet indicated the General Plan Steering Committee has been discussing this too and wanted to be certain this park plan is consistent with the General Plan update. Mr. Swift stated the Staples Ranch area has a proposal before the Planning Department that will expand 17 acres of park in that Specific Plan to approximately 30 acres. That has not been adopted by Council yet as it does add additional residential instead of commercial/office on the site, etc. The thirty plus acres that is shown as the potential within the Stoneridge Specific Plan does equate to what is proposed in a current active application. The Petronaves have a proposed community park site proposed in conjunction with the Vineyard Corridor before that was referred to the General Plan process. That site has been left in the General Plan, although much of the housing that was part of the original application has been taken out. Again, that is a special piece of property because there is old landfill and it has short term Use for anything that would be development per se. The San Francisco property provides twenty acres with the option for an additional seventeen acres, which is more than the 35 acres as proposed in the General Plan. Kaiser also had a plan for a park, but that is no longer proposed, because the development branch has dissolved and there is no development plan before the City. The option to acquire a park of about 38 acres is still proposed there however. The size is still open for discussion. Mr. Tarver asked how staff is setting the park parameters in the General Plan to determine the mount of acreage needed in certain locations? Residential, commercial, etc. seem to be taken care of, but somehow public and institutional land uses, or park, never gets laid out. Mr. Swift stated the General Plan does have that, but staff cannot be precise in terms of location. The current General Plan has a table of future park land and includes 35 acres on the San Francisco property. There is a total of park land acreage which equals about the five acres standard. The City subsequently prepared the Public Facilities Master Plan, which went a step further and broke the parks down into community and neighborhood park land, established guidelines as to numbers of acres per 1000 population, as well as an itinerary of locations. The existing General Plan does not identify the Kaiser or Petronave properties for a community park. These are an outgrowth of the community plan. He felt staff is getting closer to identifying minimum standards. The current General Plan does list parkland on a per acre basis. 05/07/96 -15-