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<br /> ball fields and eight multiuse fields pri- �.
<br /> golf courses,basketball,volleyball and "Focally r fine manly for soccer,football and lacrosse.
<br /> tennis courts,skateboard facilities,ball- t we're t man project carries a$15 million price
<br /> fields, soccer pitches, lakes,woodlands tag,so like Fort Collins (a northern rice
<br /> and trail systems for walking and biking. ,ij�melanin a rein orado boomtown that partnered with its
<br /> facilities are such cho associated or indoor �[ ��S���gOLy u.rt, school system), Foothills is going the
<br /> facilities such as recreation or comma- cooperative route.A local corporation �`
<br /> miry centers.)b Controlling costs is a for Se{,■e}that we�ahead (the Gates Foundation)is on board,local
<br /> mart'focus ne appropriate with the hunt Many for tA■ll IIUIL„ soccer associations are helping fund the
<br /> affordable and appropriate land Many soccer facilities,and the park district is
<br /> resort to combining lakes it a to keep allow of t ability W ir�nde applying for a grant from The Great Out-
<br /> their down—scenic lakes situated to allow doors-Colorado.
<br /> soccer use as irrigation vessels for fields, I 1 semi ire When it comes to funding issues,park
<br /> and pitches that double as football services ���•bewildering organizational varf-
<br /> s and lae built fields,accommodate and oda dallev is ety makes generalizations impossible.
<br /> that are built to accommodate all levels de n Foothills is a special district that is about
<br /> of softball and baseball. [� r I I I; iti. one-third funded by property taxes and
<br /> ` Fast-growing urban areas and their fees,meaning that
<br /> largely unchecked areas of suburban behind demand that let's say the scan- two-thirds high-priced Col-
<br /> . sprawl are typical homes for these corn- omy drops out and a lot of people move large-scale purchases
<br /> Co nty, One such place is r l booming out of the ation we had figve or six years tion.The district was doubly f fortunate in
<br /> County,Colo.,home i several rig Lake- ram pop
<br /> Denver suburban cities including Lake- ago—we might still be behind.Fiscally, this case:first,the site in question was
<br /> grown owned by a developer who went bank
<br /> wood,Golden and Arvada.Cohn Insley,a we're fine, but the community's gr during a time of slower-
<br /> `` park planner with the Foothills Park and so fast that it's way ahead of our ability rupt 10 years development.Because slower-
<br /> Recreation the
<br /> Recreation District in Lakewood, esti- to provide all the services they're than-expected
<br /> mates that the county,which now has a demanding.Hopefully we'll catch up,but land was zoned as residential and the
<br /> population larger than that of Denver I don't see that happening for at least owner
<br /> available ble for allot to sell,less than whatt property
<br /> r' County, is "about 26 fields short" of another five or 10 years." was vt could bear t the han what the
<br /> t meeting recreational and league needs wooing UIEBI picked up steam.
<br /> r -and that's just for soccer. m
<br /> ,�r In spite of several new multiuse parks Ground will be broken this fall on the Second,Foothills found a deep-pock
<br /> in the area and several more on the Foothills Park and Recreation District's eted partner in Jefferson n o ty,which
<br /> agenda, "It's going to be awhile before new 130-acre multiuse park that will earmarks a portion of sales tax revenues
<br /> sr we catch up,"Insley says. "We're so far include a complex of four softball/base- for land acquisition and development of. .
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