HomeMy WebLinkAbout6 - Cliff Drive Park Conceptual Plan(Item b )
September 3, 2002
• RECREATION & SENIOR SERVICES DEPARTMENT
To: Parks, Beaches and Recreation Commission
From: Andrea McGuire, Recreation Superintendent
Re: Presentation of Conceptual Plan for Cliff Drive Park
RECOMMENDATION
Approval of conceptual plan of Cliff Drive Park as submitted by David Volz Design.
BACKGROUND
David Volz Design was awarded a contract in June to submit a proposal for a
comprehensive redesign of Cliff Drive Park's recreation amenities, specifically the
playground area and access to it.
The current playground and recreation area are not ADA accessible; the new design
will include:
• ADA accessible playground
• retains the half - basketball court
• some new benches
• some landscape improvements.
Park Division staff are working with designers to insure all issues are addressed.
The City is using Proposition 12 for funding of this project to have an accessible
neighborhood playground and basketball court. Funding from the Roberti Z'berg
Harris Grant will provide 709 of the cost of the total project. The remaining 30
percent.for construction and operating funds will be provided locally
Mr. Volz will present the conceptual plan (attached) for comment before final plans
and construction documents are drawn.
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November 3, 2000
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH
PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
3300 NEWPORT BLVD.
P.O. BOX 1768, NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92658 -8915
(949) 644 -3311
Val Skoro, President
Irvine Terrace Community Association
1601 Bayadere, Terrace
Corona del Mar, CA 92625
Subject: Westerly Slope of Irvine Terrace Park
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Dear Mr. 5ko �o
Your letter asks me to clarify the fence along the westerly slope of Irvine Terrace Park. I can only give
you my recollections of what I remember from the mid- 1980's when the park was refurbished to include
the tennis courts and tot lot area. As I remember it, when the improvements were completed there were
concerns from the Irvine Terrace community park users that small children would fall down the slope and
that the older ones would try to climb the trees and hurt themselves. Also I believe there may also have
been some homeless making homes in the brush on the slope. To the best of my recollection the Parks,
Beaches and Recreation (PB&R) Department installed the fence to solve this problem. The adjoining
residents have taken advantage of the situation and cleaned up and maintained the slope area.
• In 1980 and 1988, our records show that the owners of 712 and 718 Malabar Drive purchased
approximately 50 feet of property at the base of the slope. Between the fence at the top of slope and the
Malabar Drive rear property lines there is a strip of City owned land that varies from about 30 to 80 feet
in width. Public Works has no record of any encroachment permits or agreements for the private use of
this area. There is a 75 inch diameter storm drain under a portion of this strip on the southerly end. I am
not aware of what arrangements that might have been made by the PB &R Department in the mid 1980's.
When this came up a year ago, I looked in the Community Services Department at the old PB &R files for
any thing that might shed light on the strip and the fence. I could not find anything.
Because of the steepness of the slope, an attractive nuisance might be created if the fence were removed
and the area opened up to the general public. Portions of the strip that are well away from the storm drain
could be sold to the Malabar property owners if the City does not want the maintain the property. If the
City wants to keep control of the area for future expansicn of park uses,'uh=.. the residcnts could be asked
to apply for encroachment agreements if they want to use the property until the City needs it. This area is
part of the Irvine Terrace Park and if the PB &R Commission would like to recommend to the City
Council an action that changes the way the strip is being used, the staff will implement the changes.
Please give me a call at 644 -3311 if you want to review our records and park drawings.
Very truly yours, '
Don Webb /�•r //
Public Works Director
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Cc: Homer Bludau, City Manager
David Niederhaus, General Services Director
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