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' Efland-Cheeks School Park 4 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY EFLAND-CHEEKS SCHOOL PARK MASTER PLAN The Efland-Cheeks School Park provides for a multipurpose park that utilizes properties provided by both the County of Orange Recreation Department and the Orange County Board of Education. This park design combines the resources of both agencies into a community facility that will be multi-use in nature yet specialty in its applications toward learning and public enjoyment. The public participation has been unique especially in the enthusiasm of the people and the cooperation of the two separate agencies. This group participation determined a number of different uses for the park that ultimately provided for a facility design that will serve both the community and the elementary school at the some time. Care was taken in the design to provide a park that offered joint facility uses that could be isolated when needed by the elementary school but available to the entire public when desired. srrE ANALYSIS The 27.5 acre site was reviewed by the consultant for the many opportunities that the joint properties would offer for recreation. The site was found to include a number of interesting areas including a heavily wooded area, a potential wetlands area, open play areas and three streams that traverse the site. Wildlife is present as well as an active community that surrounds the joint park site on three sides. The joint site is currently being used by the community but the use is restrictive when school is ii-i session. PUBLIC PROCESS The most interesting portion of the design process was the Saturday design session that was held at the Efland-Cheeks Elementary School. This planning session combined the interested residents of the area into five design teams. The groups combined children, young adults and senior citizens in mixed groups so that a variety of Ideas could be realized. Each team was given a different program statement which defined a different emphasis for designing their particular park project. Three mixtures of recreation needs were stated and each design team was given the project site map, markers, tracing paper and one Landscape Architect from the consultants team. The teams each developed a park plan. The five teams then presented their individual ideas to the other teams in an open presentation forum. The mix of ideas were then discussed and a list of acceptable uses for the park were obtained. In consensus it was agreed that the park should be a mixed use park with both passive and active recreation areas. High marks were given to an environmental instructional area that could be developed on a small portion of the park and a multi-purpose recreational field. H'ool��e r Park Master Plan Aare 1907