City of Durango CFS Data

• Description: Durango RICD
• State: CO
• Basin: San Juan/Dolores
• Water Division: 7
• Date: 2/9/2000
• Author: City of Durango
• Title: City of Durango CFS Data
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: News Article/Press Release

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The linear nature of Durango makes its parks accessible to all its citizens
and visitors.
For all these reasons, the City of Durango has concluded that the City as a whole
constitutes the "benefit service district" for parkland dedications and fees. This
position is similar, if not identical, to the position the City has taken with respect to
its Major Street Impact Fee Program.
3.3.3 Standards for Neighborhood Parkland and Park Design
1. Land to be dedicated or reserved for park purposes should be dry,
reasonably flat, and accessible by road and preferably by trails from the
City's overall trails system and meet the size requirements for the
appropriate park type as identified in Table 1.
2. New neighborhood parks should contain the facilities specified in Table 1.
3. Open turf and sport fields should have a bluegrass or bluegrass mix
comparable to current usage by the City Parks maintenance staff.
4. Existing mature trees should be preserved unless doing so precludes
reasonable park amenities and costs.
5. Shrub beds should be provided in multiple locations - as accents or
buffers- and planted with drought tolerant shrubs and perennials.
6. All turf areas, trees and shrubs should have automatic sprinkler systems.
7. Park design should follow the guidelines in Section 4.1 of this Master
Plan.
8. Finally, it is recommended that the City explore requiring the developer's
park dedication be for an improved park facility (not just land).
3.4
FUTURE COMMUNITY PARKS AND SPORTS FIELDS
The new Neighborhood Park facilities pending from the City and the recreation
center being developed at the County fairgrounds will be welcome additions to
Durango's recreation resources. However, they will not fully address the
significant long -term need for major sports fields (soccer, baseball /softball). In
addition, there is support and interest in a number of other facilities including
tennis courts, BMX course, etc. These could be met in several ways:
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1. insert turf sports fields and other facilities in several neighborhood parks;
2. create two or three medium size turf sports complexes (15 to 25 acres
each) in conjunction with several new Community parks, or
3. create a single large sport field complex (100+ acres) in conjunction with
a large Regional park.
The desirability of lighting sports fields to obtain maximum utilization generally
makes them incompatible with residential neighborhoods, along with the need for
automobile access, so Option 1 is not the most desirable.
Option 2 or 3 will require larger park parcels. The lack of open areas within the
City limits precludes locating a park of this magnitude (Community /Regional) in
this area. The most likely locations within a 10 -mile radius service area that is
large enough for a Community or Regional Park that would include a large sports
complex (and a surrounding buffer from development) are
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)
(E)
(F)
The north Animas Valley
Ewing Mesa
Horse Gulch
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