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303 Mr. Armanini continued with Chapter Four: Inventory of Current Recreation Programs and Park Facilities He presented slides identifying the locations of existing recreational programs and placing them in the categories of public, private and quasi-public. These also were identified on a township basis. Once the inventory was done, the next step was Chapter 5: Recreation Standards and Community Needs Assessment The allocation of recreation land and facilities for a community or special population is determined by standards established in the recreation and parks industry. The importance of establishing and using recreation standards is recognized as: * A guide in determining lan types of park and recreation * An expression of minimum citizens of a community. * A means by which recreational spatial requirements within system. * A comprehensive guide and assist * A tool to justify d requirements for various areas and facilities. acceptable facilities for needs can be related to a recreation and parks planning element that can be used to development. recreational needs within communities. Once a set of standards was developed, an identification of a park system was made. The types of parks identified were Mini-Parks (Vest Pocket Park), Neighborhood Parks, Community Parks, District Parks (large park), Regional Parks and Unique/Special Areas. He continued giving a description of each type of park (on pages 5-3 and 5-4 of the Draft Plan). The needs assessment encompassed a need for 3,000 acres public parkland to be developed by the year 2005. Standards were also developed for individual facilities. (These are described on pages 5-4 through 5-8 of the Draft Plan). Also in the Draft Plan are tables and exhibits showing the different types of parks. The next step is Chapter Six: Plan Proposals and Recommendations. This chapter discusses the responsibilities or roles of the providers of the facilities. The proposals and recommendations by township are also discussed at length in Chapter Six. Most important is to concentrate on the county-wide responsibilities. This would be the development of community parks .for the unincorporated places, district parks, swimming pools and current existing facilities such as the Homestead Building in Chapel Hill Township, Central Recreation Center in Hillsborough and the North Human Services Center. Mr. Armanini explained that a typical community park would have approximately twenty-five acres with facilities such as tennis and basketball courts, play area, ball fields, etc. There would be some passive recreation such as a lake for fishing and a nature trail. A community park is easily accessed by being located on a residential collector street with parking provided. A district park would be a park of over seventy-five acres with ball fields, camping areas, picnic areas, fishing and