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': Gerald Kaufhold, Case r-l. 1830 ( Page 3 f) The scale and the location of the park make it incompatible with the purpose and function of the property as originally planned in the park system plan adopted by the City in 1960-61. 8. We understand that the proposed use of the northerly portion of the site for school purposes by District 916 is proposed to continue for approximately two years. There remains a very important question as to the future use of this land. It would be bad public policy to make a land use commitment and change any portion of this relatively small site and leave the remainder unknown for the future. It is simply delaying an important land use decision and likely making it more difficult to achieve a compatible development on the northerly portion of the site after additional single-family home owners occupy the southerly portion. There is also, of course, a minor regulation detail that requires a public school building not to be less than 30 feet from a contiguous single-family lot. That regulation is violated. 9. Though the land is zoned singH~-family (R-l), the land use plan which controls the future land uses of the City still designates the land as a public school. If a portion of the site is to be developed. for low density residential, the land use plan should be changed accordingly. We suggest that such a designation of low density residential for the area of the land proposed to be platted now and leaving the remainder as a public school would be very bad land planning since the days for the use of the land for public school purposes are numbered. Therefore, it is reasonable on the part of the City (hopefully working with the land owner) to achieve an overall land use plan and development proposal that will be . compatible with the considerable concentration of single-family homes in the immediate vicinity and the community as a whole. 10. The Planning Commission and Council may wish to consider an action that would provide for: a) A more appropriately scaled and located park site consistent with the original parks plan in the overall community interests; b) A long range look at the overall land use, zoning, and development of the site; c) Elimination of an inadequately sized and located park for the reasons .as listed in this report; and d) Development that would be compatible with the single-family homes in the area, the traffic capacity of the street serving the site, and the land use pattern as established in the contiguous quadrants of the county road serving this site.