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2. Neighborhood Park Service Area Household Counts and Amenity Inventorya to MEMORANDUM CITYOF TO: Park & Recreation Commission FROM: Todd Hoffman, Park & Recreation Director CHANHASSFN 7700 Market Boulevard DATE: October 26, 2010 PO Box 147 comparing the presence of ten of the most desirable neighborhood park Chanhassen, MN 55317 SUBJ: Neighborhood Park Service Area Household Counts and Amenity Inventory Administration Phone: 952.227.1100 During a recent discussion on future capital improvements, the commission Fax: 952.227.1110 inquired about the possibility of comparing the number of desirable amenities found within specific neighborhood parks with the number of households Building Inspections located within that parks one -half mile service area. Staff has calculated the Phone: 952.227.1180 approximate number of residential household units within the service areas of Fax: 952.227.1190 each of our neighborhood parks. Some households are counted twice since Fax: 952.227.1404 overlap exists in some areas of the map. Additionally, some households listed Engineering Phone: 952227.1160 may have limited access to one park or another due to the presence of busy Fax: 952.227.1170 roads, highways, lakes or wetlands. Finance Ranking the number of desirable park amenities was accomplished by Phone: 952.227.1140 comparing the presence of ten of the most desirable neighborhood park Fax: 952.227.1110 amenities featured within our system; a ball field, basketball court, open play field, picnic area, picnic shelter, play area, sliding hill, swimming beach, tennis Park &Recreation Phone: 952.227.1120 court and trails. The best possible score would be a 10 and the worst possible p p Fax: 952.227.1110 score a 0. The city's twenty- one neighborhood park locations scored from a low of 3 to a high of 8. The average score was 5.2. Recreation Center 2310 Coulter Boulevard The residential parcel counts within the one -half mile service area of each park Phone: 952.227.1400 varied from a high of 2,263 for Power Hill Park and a low of 202 for Fax: 952.227.1404 Minnewashta Heights Park. Calculating the number of parcels per amenity Planning & resulted in a range of 51 residential parcels per park amenity to 359 residential Natural Resources parcels per park amenity. The average ratio was 154 residential parcels per Phone: 952.227.1130 desirable park amenity. Fax: 952.227.1110 A spreadsheet displaying the park amenity counts, parcel counts, and how they Public Works compare and contrast is attached. This information will be included in next's 1591 Park Road Phone: 952.227.1300 years Capital Improvement Plan (CIP) packet for use by commissioners during Fax: 952.227.1310 your annual capital project discussion and deliberations. Senior Center ATTACHMENTS Phone: 952.227.1125 Fax: 952.227.1110 1. Spreadsheet 2. Examples of Parcel Count Maps Web Site wwadchanhassen.m.us gApark \th \cip\neighborhood park amenity memo.doc Chanhassen is a Community for Life - Providing forToday and Planning for Tomorrow Neighborhood Park Amenity Inventory Park Name # of Amenities # of Residental Parcels # of Parcels per Amenity Prairie Knoll Park 4 2172 543 Sunset Ridge Park 6 2155 359 Power Hill Park 7 2263 323 Carver Beach Park 4 1001 250 Sugarbush Park 4 705 176 Meadow Green Park 8 1364 171 Carver Beach Playground 6 953 159 Greenwod Shores Park 3 464 155 Pheasant Hills Park 5 611 122 Herman Field Park 3 306 102 Rice Marsh Lake Park 7 703 100 South Lotus Lake Park 5 489 98 Curry Farms Park 6 573 96 Chanhassen Estates Park 4 373 93 Stone Creek Park 5 423 85 North Lotus Lake Park 8 622 78 Chanhassen Hills Park 6 450 75 Roundhouse Park 6 426 71 Bandimere Heights Park 4 281 70 Cathcart Park 5 304 61 Minnewashta Heights Park 4 202 51 Greenwood Shores Park 464 Parcels ° �/IIIIIIII� r� Q -- reenwo _ 1 Li Shores j / ark ... L__l L LL -�_ EN L� Rice Marsh Lake Park 703 Parcels r Rice Marsh Lake Park �_♦ `rru Meadow Green Park 1364 Parcels m Lqrll m , V,4141 4 1 Power Hill Park 2263 Parcels -- -1