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Recreational Facilities
The 1995 Plan projected costs that totaled $32.3 million for specific recreational
facilities, ranging from playgrounds and playing fields to a 412 million multi-sports complex. A
cost estimate breakdown was presented in Appendix B.
In prioritizing recreational facility development, those facilities typically found
throughout the park system (including playgrounds, basketball, tennis, softball and baseball,
volleyball, and soccer) were given the same relative importance, with 60 percent of the total
cost assigned a top priority rating, and the remaining 40 percent split evenly between second
and third priority rating. (See Table VII.A.2.)
Given the lower importance attached to new swimming pools, in addition to their high
operating cost, a new pool was shown as a third priority in Table VII.A.2. Four new recreation
centers were included as top priority, with fifth and sixth centers included as second and third
priorities. The proposed new $12 million multi-sports complex was shown as a cost split
between the second and third priority ratings. This reflected the possibility that the complex
could be built as a phased development.
Table VII.A.2
Recreation Facility Capital Costs Estimate (in 1995 dollars)
Item
Top Priority Second
Third
Priority
Priority
Playgrounds
1,440,000
480,000
480,000
Basketball
360,000
120,000
120,000
Tennis Courts
378,000
126,000
126,000
Softball/Baseball 990,000
330,000
330,000
Volleyball
72,000
24,000
24,000
Soccer
852,000
284,000
284,000
Swimming Pool
0
0
1,500,000
Recreation
8,000,000
2,000,000
2,000,000
Centers
Multi-Sports
0
6,000,000
6,000,000
Complex
Total
12,092,000
9,364,000
10,864,000
Total
2,400,000
600,000
630,000
1,650,000
120,000
1,420,000
1,500,000
12,000,000
12,000,000
32,320,000
Source: Wallace Roberts & Todd
Greenways
An estimated total of $40 million was included for development of the proposed
network of greenways. This was not an estimate of the entire greenway system implementation
cost, but only an allowance for LMPRD’s share of the total. The greenways concept was being
pursued by MSD in 1995 as part of its stormwater management program, and it was expected
that MSD would play a significant role in implementation of the greenways system. The
LMPRD’s share of costs was to be primarily related to recreational enhancements to the
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