DU 3 South DUP
C.2 Common Areas Within DU3 South, common areas will typically be found in the Neighborhood Parks. However, given the proximity to the Eastmark Great Park, this will also serve as a social and recreational center for the entire Eastmark community, and which is being designed to accommodate a wide range of functions. The Eastmark Great Park is being developed consistent with the Great Park Master Plan. The Eastmark Great Park is being developed in many phases and will have a wide variety of landscape and architectural components. Unlike the Eastmark Great Park, Neighborhood Parks will each be the “living room” for individual neighborhoods. They may host community wide events on occasion, but they will be designed to regularly serve the needs of each neighborhood. Each will be a single holistic design and typically will be highly varied from park to park.
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Neighborhood Parks
In DU3 South, Neighborhood Parks will be the “living room” of each neighborhood and they will have similar key elements. These key elements help to ensure that the parks play a primary role in the social fabric of each neighborhood. A “kit of tools” has been developed for the Neighborhood Parks which provide a series of options for park development that provide for consistency in development yet at the same time, provide for a variety of uses for each park. These elements have been accumulated from international research and over a decade and a half of refinement in modern Arizona communities. The key elements should be used as a guide not as absolute rules because parks can and will likely take on several different forms and will like contain different elements and features. The parks will need to be appropriate to their context and the intention of each key element may take on many physical forms to accomplish the same goals. Exhibit C.3 – Neighborhood Park Elements
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