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ELK RIVER COMMUNITY CENTER CONCEPTUAL SOLUTIONS SITE OPTION 4: ORONO PARK (cont.) The Orono Park site, although having a wealth of support for being the preferred site of a potential new facility, does have one primary drawback. This drawback however can be viewed as an additional opportunity for the city and community of Elk River. Currently the Orono Park is home to the Dave Anderson Softball Field complex, which is an array of 4 softball fields complete with lighting, bleachers seating and support buildings and a gravel parking lot. If the Orono Park site were selected to be the future home of a new Community Center facility this complex would need to be relocated. Preliminary budget estimates determined a cost of approximately $1.2 million* to recreate the existing facility at a new site. The proposed location for the Dave Anderson complex to move would be the current Youth Athletic Complex (YAC) located in the southeast portion of the city. Relocating the complex would vprovide a new opportunity for the community to have access to newer, better constructed fields, dugouts, and support buildings. The YAC site also provides opportunity to create an additional fifth field to better serve the community and accommodate larger tournament and competitive events. Relocating the existing Dave Anderson softball fields to the YAC site not only provides immediate opportunity for improved community field space, but would be another piece in the overall development of the YAC site in becoming one of the premiere atheltic complexes in the region. Proposed cost figure is based on the cost to reconstruct ballfields of similar size and scope, on a new green field site that is fairly level and ready to develop for this purpose. SITE ANALYSIS SUMMARY Through the process of analyzing and studying conceptual layouts at each site option and at-length discussion with the Steering Commmittee, it is reccommended that the best site for a future potential Community Center facility be the Orono Park site. The Oak Knoll site and the Pinewood site would both accomodate a new facility adequately, however both these sites have limited opportunity based on location,site surrounding character,and limited building/site layout opportunity. Both the Lion's Park site and the Orono Park site have strong support as options for housing a future facility, including site access, site surroundings and character, and layout opportunities. However the greatest detractor for the Lion's Park site is the unstable soil and subsurface water conditions. Due to these known issues and unpredictability of how soil corrections would perform over time, the risk of investing a large sum of money on a new facility at this site is too great. The Orono Park site is therefore the location with the most opportunity for a long-term successful building project, with great site access and surrounding amenities, and would be a step in developing a strong complex of community buildings and park space in this part of the city. The reloaction of the Dave Anderson fields also becomes a new opportunity to provide an additional asset to the community in new and improved ball fields, and further development of a strong Youth Athletic Complex. 38 SITE ANALYSIS 1) 11 tik Mr