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RECOMMENDED ACTION:
Accept, review and comment on the Carrillo Ranch Subcommittees' Final Report.
Direct staff to utilize the report during the implementation of the park master
planning process for the Carrillo Ranch.
ITEM EXPLANATION;
Approximately eighteen months ago, the Parks and Recreation Commission
reactivated the Carrillo Ranch Subcommittee to assist with and make
recommendations relative to the park dedication requirements associated with the
Ranch Carrillo Master Plan (Revision)/Zone 18 of the Local Facilities Management
Program.
Attached is the final report of the subcommittee for consideration by the
Commission. Staff will deliver a presentation on the recommendations of the
subcommittee and be available to respond to questions and comments.
EXHIBITS:
1. Carrillo Ranch Subcommittee Final Report - April 29, 1993
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April 21, 1993
TO: PARKS & RECREATION COMMISSION
HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION
ARTS COMMISSION
PLANNING COMMISSION
OPEN SPACE ADVISORY BOARD
FROM: Carrillo Ranch Subcommittee
CARRILLO RANCH SUBCOMMITTEE FINAL REPORT
In October 1991, the Parks and Recreation Commission reactivated the Carrillo Ranch
subcommittee to assist with initial park master planning efforts. The reason the
subcommittee was reactivated was that the property owners and their consultants for
development within Zone 18 LFMP had submitted preliminary master plans for review by
the Planning Department. Concurrently, discussions with the Park and Recreation
Department began with the property owners regarding park dedication requirements
associated with this development.
A long standing goal of the Parks & Recreation Commission is that any future park
dedication requirements in Zone 18 be acquired and situated immediately adjacent to the
existing city-owned Carrillo Ranch Park site. Due to the wide variety of interests in the
Carrillo Ranch from a number of City boards and commissions, the Parks & Recreation
Commission requested that the subcommittee consist of representatives from those
respective boards. In order to address concerns and receive input from various
community organizations also having interests in the future development of the Carrillo
Ranch, all meetings were open to the public. Open communication was encouraged and,
in fact, did occur.
The make up of the subcommittee consisted of representation from the following city
boards and commissions:
Parks and Recreation Commission
Historic Preservation Commission
Arts Commission
Planning Commission
*: Open Space Advisory Committee
• Carrillo Ranch Volunteer Curator
In addition, the interests and concerns of the following community organizations were
openly communicated to, and considered by the subcommittee:
The Friends of Carrillo Ranch
Carlsbad Historical Society
The Carlsbad Arboretum Foundation
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EXHIBIT 1
Page Two
April 21, 1993
Over the course of eighteen months the subcommittee addressed and considered a
number of issues relative to the future of Carrillo Ranch. The recommendations
forthcoming from the subcommittee result as a culmination of numerous subcommittee
meetings, community input, field reconnaissance, staff reports and presentations,
developer/consultant presentations, and Rancho Carrillo Environmental impact review and
response. The recommendations of the subcommittee are twofold:
The subcommittee made recommendations regarding the parkland dedication
requirements for the Rancho Carrillo Master Plan/Zone 18 LFMP. Although this phase of
the report was finalized February 8,1993, it was considered by the Parks and Recreation
Commission relative to their action on February 22, 1993 regarding the park dedication
requirements for the Rancho Carrillo Master Plan.
Part 2
As part of this report, the subcommittee has also made recommendations relating to the
future development of the city-owned Carrillo Ranch Community Park. Specific
recommendations have been made on a number of uses and issues which the
subcommittee felt would be confronting the future development of the site, including:
Open Space
Historical
Parks and Recreation
Arts and Cultural
Archives and Education
Arboretum
Circulation/Traffic
Privatization
Operations
Although each subcommittee member has been keeping their respective
boards/commixions abreast of the committee proceedings, this memo and attached
recommendations will be sent to key personnel staffing those boards in order that the
report might be discussed as part of each commission's agenda. Notwithstanding future
responses or commissions' actions, this report shall be presented for consideration
during the Master Plan development process of the Carrillo Ranch Community Park.
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Page Three
April 21, 1993
All recommendations made by the subcommittee members in the attached report were
made by consensus.
KEITH BEVERD
ATTACHMENT
c: Carrillo Ranch Subcommittee
Assistant City Manager
Parks & Recreation Director
Community Development Director
Arts Manager
Planning Director
Carrillo Ranch Park Development File
CARRILLO RANCH SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT
PART1
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PARKLAND
DEDICATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE RANCHO
CARRILLO MASTER PLAN/ZONE 18 LFMP
(FEBRUARY 8, 1993)
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February 8, 1993
TO: CARRILLO RANCH SUBCOMMITTEE
FROM: Senior Management Analyst
PARK DEDICATION REQUIREMENT/ZONE 18 LFMP (RANG HO CARRILLO)
BACKGROUND
During the January 15, 1993 Carrillo Ranch Subcommittee meeting, the issue of park
dedication requirements for Zone 18 was discussed. Specifically, the former
recommendation as outlined in the April 23, 1992 memo (Attachment 2) was reconsidered.
The principal reason for reconsideration was due to an understanding that the park
dedication requirement previously believed to be 8.5 acres has been revised to 5.739 acres.
This current dedication requirement has been established by the following criteria:
1. The original Carrillo Master Plan dedicated up front, 10.53 acres. This acreage is the
amount of the existing City owned Carrillo Ranch Community Park,
2. Initial development in the original Carrillo Master Plan required park land dedication
of 1.73 acres based upon the number of dwelling units constructed (253) in
Ponderosa Homes (C.T. 73-29).
3. Based upon a memo from Growth Management, it is recommended that future park
dedication requirements from Zone 18 (Rancho Carrillo) be based upon "2,091
dwelling units as a maximum and 2.3178 persons per dwelling unit'1. Therefore, the
park dedication requirements for Zone 18 at this time, equate to 14.539 acres.
The equation for determining the current park acreage requirements of the Rancho Carrillo
Master Plan is as follows:
a. (dwelling units in Zone 18, per Growth Management) 2,091
b. (persons per dwelling unit) x 2.3178
c. (population) - 4,846.5198
d. (park aow required per 1,000 population) x 3.0
e. (acres of park land required for Zone 18) = 14.539
f. (park dedication required of Ponderosa Homes) + 1.73
g. (total park requirement for Zone 18
and Ponderosa Homes) a 16.269
/ h. (credit for up front dedication of City
owned Carrillo Ranch) -
(remaining acres to be dedicated) 5.739 ac
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Page Two
RECOMMENDATIONS
After review and discussion of the current revision to the park dedication requirement, the
subcommittee has come to a consensus and recommends the following:
I. The proposal for land dedication to meet the park requirement, as presented to the
subcommittee (Attachment 1) on or about July 30, 1992 is acceptable. The offer as
presented indicated a park expansion area of approximately 16.1 acres, the
breakdown of which is as follows:
Net Usable 9 ac
Manufactured Slopes 4.9 ac
Natural 40% Slopes .lac
Remaining Natural Riparian 1.1 ac
New Riparian 1.0 ac
16.1 ac
Based in part upon the offer to dedicate 9.0 net usable acres and in consideration that the
actual requirement is 5.739 net usable acres, the subcommittee is recommending that the
constrained lands.also being offered for dedication be accepted by the City for park
purposes. In their consideration, the subcommittee did evaluate the additional and ongoing
maintenance and operation impacts of this constrained land. However, the consensus is that
the benefit of City ownership and ultimate control of this property for landscape
enhancement and park buffering outweighs the perpetual maintenance cost particularly in
light of the excess dedication of net usable land.
2. To extract from and/or require any land offered for park dedication to be used as
required sites for possible future mitigation as a result of Zone 18 Master Plan
development is unanimously unacceptable.
3. As depicted on the conceptual park development plan, access to the park site from
the culdesac of a residential street is acceptable as an entrance and exit to the park
site. However, it is not acceptable as the singular primary access point. The
reasoning for this assessment is:
• Maintaining the historical significance and integrity of the site in terms of
providing access at the original and traditional point of entry to the ranch (i.e.
over the north bridge, north and east of the gate house).
• An expectation was created by the former Master Plan and Carrillo Rancho
Parks agreement that access to the park site would originate from Poinsettia
Lane (Carrillo Way).
• The anticipation of future neighborhood disruption issues
• Questionable Traffic Engineering design to allow for safe access.
Page Three
It is therefore a recommendation of the subcommittee that public access and parking
opportunity be provided off on the north side of the riparian area to allow for pedestrian
access over the bridfe and limited and/or emergency vehicular access to the park site at an
Carrillo Way), other than the culdesac east of the barn.
KEITH B
Assistant City Manager
Parks and Recreation Director
Carrillo Subcommittee Members (memo only)
Planning Director
Brian Hunter, Growth Management
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April 23, 1992
TO: CARRILLO RANCH SUBCOMMITTEE
FROM: Senior Management Analyst
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PARKLAND DEDICATION/CARRILLO RANCH
During the March 27, 1992 Carriilo Ranch Subcommittee meeting, the results of planning
efforts to accommodate uses and concerns identified during the February meeting
(Attachment 2) were presented to the committee for consideration. Specifically what was
presented is a recommendation for the land requested of the developers of Zone 18 to meet
their park dedication requirement of .8.5 acres immediately adjacent to the existing 10 acre
Carriilo Ranch site.
By consensus the following Parcels (outlined in Attachment 1), and recommendations for
parkland dedication are forthcoming from this committee relevant to the Carriilo Ranch
Community park.
1. Primary access to the park site should originate off Carriilo Way and proceed
in the direction of the original entryway into the site at the existing Bridge and
Gate House.
2. Although numerous housing units are proposed for development in close
proximity to the Dede House, it is the expectation of the committee that this
development will be precluded or reduced through the environmental review
process or by conditions of development approvals of the Master Plan. Based
upon this presupposition the following Parcels have been recommended to
meet the park dedication requirements for Zone 18 of the local Facilities
Management Plan.
A. The approximate 2.2 - 2.5 ac Parcel hying immediately west of
the pool/cabana area between the 2 riparian creeks to the north
and south (identified as Parcel A on Attachment 1).t
& The approximate 3.2 - 3.5 ac Parcel lying immediately east of
the existing site, north of the barn and out buildings (identified
as Parcel B on Attachment 1).
C. The remainder of acreage (approximate 2.5 - 3.1 ac) is to be
located immediately north and parallel to the northern property
bounds of the existing site (identified as Parcel C on
Attachment 1).
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ATTACHMENT 2
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3. For the purpose of meeting the 8.5 ac park dedication requirement, all Parcels
as previously outlined must be free and clear of any and all constraints which
would otherwise preclude development as outlined in the Carlsbad Municipal
Code, Chapter 20.44, "Dedication of Land for Recreational Facilities"
(Attachment 3). In addition, the processing of park dedication should follow
the procedure as outlined in the Carlsbad Municipal Code, Chapter 21.38
"P-C Planned Community Zone", (21.38.06015] contents of a Master Plan),
/*) (Attachment 4),
KEITH BEVERLY
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c:• Assistant City Manager
Parks and Recreation Director
Senior Planner/Brian Hunter
Park Development Coordinator
Friends of Carrillo Ranch
• Senior Management Analyst/Patricia Cratty
. Planning Director
• Rick Engineering - Bob Wilkinson
,Ladwick Design Group • Bob Ladwick
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CARRILLO RANCH SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT
PART 2
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR CONSIDERATION
DURING THE CARRILLO RANCH COMMUNITY
PARK MASTER PLAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
(APRIL 15, 1993)
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CARRILLO RANCH APRIL 15, 1993
SUBCOMMITTEE
1. OPEN SPACE
2. HISTORICAL
3. PARKS AND RECREATION
4. ARTS AND CULTURAL
5. ARCHIVES AND EDUCATION
6. ARBORETUM
7. CIRCULATION/TRAFFIC
8. PRIVATIZATION
9. OPERATIONS ISSUES
* Unless otherwise defined, the term "park" within this document shall refer to the
entire City owned parkland in Zone 18, including the originally designated 10.5
acre historic site and any additionally acquired areas of park dedication.
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1. OPEN SPACE
All issues related to open space must first conform to all Federal, State, and
Local Environmental Regulations and Standards.
The park site should be included in the habitat linkage/corridors system
when and if the program is implemented.
Park development should be sensitive to view corridors within the ranch to
maximize isolation of the park.
Watershed drainage and upstream runoff must be designed, engineered
and managed in such a way as to prevent further erosion of existing
parkland while supporting existing riparian habitat.
Trails shall be provided and connect to any City wide or Zone wide
characteristic.
Development around the park should be buffered so as not to intrude upon
the seclusion of the park.
2. HISTORICAL
When a master plan is prepared, it shall be comprehensive and include, but
not be limited to, protection and preservation of all historic structures,
botanical collection, original or period artifacts, design criteria for
rehabilitation, adaptive uses, new construction and compatibility.
Permanent security means should be provided for the historic structures,
artifacts and/or botanical collection.
Original or period artifacts should be catalogued, stored and/or displayed
•Kurely at the Ranch.
Facilities may be used for purposes other than museums which are
compatible with the historical integrity of the structures, the security of
artifacts and collections.
The historical entrance at the northeast corner of the ranch shall be
preserved as the primary access to the ranch.
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3. PARKS AND RECREATION
The primary emphasis of the park site shall be for passive recreational use.
Facility use should be compatible with uses cited elsewhere within the park.
4. ARTS AND CULTURAL
Emphasis on the aesthetics of the site, whether natural or developed, shall
include, in particular, well-planned and maintained landscape materials
incorporating native botanical specimens.
Provisions should be made for classrooms, lecture, exhibition and
performance spaces.
Provision of space for studio(s), storage, rehearsal for use by visual and
performing arts groups.
Residential and/or studio accommodations should be provided for artist-in-
residence programs.
5. ARCHIVES AND EDUCATION
Provisions for on-site informational/educational programming, including but
not limited to facilities (kiosks and meeting places), curator, docents, and
staff personnel.
The educational program shall present a balance of historical, cultural,
botanical, artistic, and archeological dimensions of the ranch.
6. AR
An arboretum concept focused upon the parksite's historical botanical
collection and native flora is considered to be a compatible use for this
facility.
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7. CIRCULATION/TRAFFIC
The original entrance at the north east corner of the ranch should be
preserved for primary access, emphasizing pedestrian, but not excluding
vehicular or other modes.
Parking areas outside of the historic 10.5 acre site should accommodate
school and tour buses as well as provide for adequate parking for
passenger vehicles.
Pedestrian flow patterns throughout the site shall be well-planned and
include a self-guided route.
Vehicular access within the 10-acre site should be limited to delivery,
maintenance, and shuttle services.
Safe pedestrian access to f^e park site, including access across major
arterials should be provided.
8. PRIVATIZATION
The site shall not include commercial uses which conflict with the historical
character of the site as described by the State Office of Historic
Preservation and the National Park Service criteria for evaluation.
A development philosophy which emphasizes a high degree of commercial
development similar to that of Old Towne, San Diego would be considered
undesirable.
Childcare facilities within the boundaries of the park site are also
undesirable.
9. OPERATIONS ISSUES
Decisions regarding maintenance, operation and scheduling of the parksite
and its facilities must be under the control and sole jurisdiction of the City
«f Carlsbad.
An oversight committee should be appointed to mediate among competing
interests for use of the park facilities, buildings and grounds.
Permanent security means should be provided for the historic structures,
artifacts and/or botanical collection.
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