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. i 5/ 26/ 99 Appendix 3 Parklands Needed Based on Population Standards - MEMORANDUM . To : . Margaret Brown , County Commissioner John Link, County Manager Albert Kittrell , Assistant County Manager Richard Kinney , Carrboro Parks and Recreation Director Bob Jones , Orange County Recreation and Parks Director Bill Webster, Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Analyst From : David Stancil ,. Orange County ERC Director Sarah Magruder, Orange County . Planning/ ERC Intern RE : Current/ Projected Estimates of Parkland Needs in County Date ., April 28 , 1999 ' We have performed some calculations in order to begin to put some numbers together_ for . the . Master Recreation and Parks Report . Currently , the report has blanks , plugged numbers or . " xx 's " on projected parkland needs . - Prior to disseminating this to the full work group , we wanted to run these numbers . by you for review . We have attempted to determine . the number Hof parks, ( by - type ) and acres needed for Orange County 's population - in 2000 and 2025 . The intent of this exercise is to provide us with a general idea of the countywide - needs . We used the Standards appendix from the 1996 Assembly of Governments Report , . as well as the definitions of parks in the 1988 Orange County Master Recreation and Parks .Plan . We used these standards in the absence of. the anticipated community - based . standards , that- would be developed by the proposed future - Parklands and , Resource Council : Thus , alterations may - be needed when the new standards are in place . Two tables are presented , one with gross land needs , the other demonstrating - net needs after accounting for our best estimation of existingresources . Also listed are the assumptions . used in the calculation process , as follows ; • In determining the number of: people served by different types of parks , we chose the midpoint - between the County 's and municipalities different standards . • - In determining the existing- resource base , we used the inventory . • Definitions used — Regional parks are , > 200 , : District parks are > 75acres , Community - parks are > 20 acres and Neighborhood parks are > 5 acres . ' . • Acreage needs were based upon the entire county . We did not allocate the final number of parks and acres by , municipality or township . • Eno River State Park is regarded as a regional park due to its size .