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Comprehensive Plan, City of Paris, Texas Future Land Use minimum of six acres in size and ideally should be eight or more acres in size. In order to determine the appropriate size for a particular neighborhood park, one to two acres of park land area should be provided for each 1,000 population. Community Park: A community park provides separated facilities for quiet and active play areas for use by all age groups. All-day usage, planned recreational programs of competitive sports, passive entertainment, large group gatherings, and individual usage are characteristics of community parks. Typical facilities included in community parks are lighted and unlighted ball diamonds lighted tennis courts, comfort stations, swimming pools, areas for lawn games, multi-purpose areas, wooded areas, shelter houses for picnicking with adjoining space for play apparatus for preschool children, and open areas of natural landscape away from City noises and traffic hazards. Other facilities often included are arboretums and flower gardens, bicycling and hiking trails, band shells andJor out-door theaters and zoos. A community park should serve several neighborhoods within a three-mile radius. A minimum of forty acres should be provided in a community park with a recommended size of eighty acres being more appropriate. In order to determine the appropriate size for a community park, five to eight acres of park land should be provided for each 1,000 population. Regional Parks: Lake Crook provides the large space for a regional park, which is under development planning at this time. The regional park should encompass hundreds of acres and mix active and passive recreation in a planned way. Paris Parks and Recreation Projects Planned A master park plan commissioned in 1995 concluded that the City of Paris has a wide variety of facilities and programs to offer its citizens. The 1995 plan was updated in 1997 to identify the following park and recreation goals and objectives, in prioritized order: 1. Provide for a multipurpose sports complex with a wider variety of slow pitch facilitates. 2. Provide upgrades to Record Park, including an upgraded pavilion and parking facilities. 3. Dragon Park improvements are planned for expansion of the facility acquired from the Paris Junior College, to include expanded soccer fields. 4. Lake Crook Recreation Area Development is planned to allow the areas to reach a larger economic potential, as supported in the Community Opinion Survey of 1999. 5. Upgrade parks Citywide, including shelters and handicapped accessibility to all park facilities, both new and existing. 6. Upgrade restroom facilities in parks to eliminate rented portable toilets. S:U8288\WPCltinal rcpun 2-01Ax 47 BWR