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either Torain Street or Rainey Avenue to access the other portion of the park. In <br />addition to this trail, trails around the ballfiield and a connector trail to the <br />intersection of Rainey and Homemont Avenue are also reflected. Thus, <br />pedestrians could enter the park from Rainey Avenue, Torain Street or <br />Homemont Avenue, as well as from other intersections with Rainey Avenue. <br />Access for non-pedestrians would come via three possibilities. The primary <br />entrance for persons coming to the park from outside of Fairview would be via an <br />extension of the existing Public Works Drive. This road would be continued west <br />and then curve northwest into the main parking area of the park (adjacent to the <br />ballfield and large "southern pod"). This will discourage park traffic from outside <br />of the neighborhood from putting more vehicles on community streets to reach <br />the park. For persons driving from within Fairview, there are two parking <br />opportunities - the existing lot off Rainey Avenue at the "western pod," and a <br />new small lot along Torain Street near the ballfield and "southern pod." <br />The committee remains interested in the future possibilities for the northern <br />(former landfilled) portion of the site, but understands that addressing the actions <br />needed to make this area usable might siphon away some or all of the funds to <br />build the park. The focus of the master plan is thus to create a design that <br />provides for good pedestrian and vehicular access to the park, using the best <br />areas for facilities and leaving the uncertain open areas for future consideration. <br />It is proposed that the former landfill areas (shown as open lands on the master <br />plan) be planted in grass for now, to provide an open meadow area, with <br />birdboxes and areas for unstructured activities (such as dog-walking, bird- <br />viewing and other non-facility use). <br />In designing the park, the group developed a list of possible facilities and then <br />selected preferred facilities based on community needs and interests, as well as <br />cost estimates for the facilities. The cost estimates used in this effort, and the <br />priority listing, are shown as Appendix 3. The budget for the park is $850,000, <br />and the Committee attempted to design a park in this range. <br />CONCLUSION <br />Citizens in Fairview have looked forward to the creation of the community park at <br />this site for many years. The Committee has attempted to design a park within <br />the parameters of the group's charge. <br />There were a number of limitations that affected the flexibility for park design, <br />largely due to the former landfilled areas and the challenges of retaining the <br />needed lands for future County/Town use and protecting the mature hardwood <br />areas and a buffer along the southern boundary. Given these constraints, and <br />the stream buffer, the areas that remained for potential park use were limited and <br />led to the "pod" design approach - to attempt to make the most out of the areas <br />2_?