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parklands to better and more

effectively achieve all or some of the above

• Ensures proximity and adjacency to residential, institutional, public and civic facilities

• Accommodates critical pedestrian-oriented community linkages by using a hierarchy of interconnected systems to facilitate both internal (community) and external (regional) pedestrian accessibility

The planning process included involvement of internal staff from all levels of the organization and multiple departments throughout the City. Involvement included interviews, brain-storming sessions, and data collection which, at times, included key staff with focused perspectives and study topics that included written contributions to the master plan text. We successfully maintained a core group of City employees (the study steering committee), representing staff, supervisors and administrators. This diversity ensured an accurate and broad-base perspective of existing conditions and future needs.

Integral to the Parks and Recreation Master Planning Initiative was the City of Dublin’s Long Range Planning Committee, which was simultaneously updating the comprehensive Community Plan. The continuity of staff

participating on both projects ensured common community initiatives and goals that were influenced and supported by both plans. The following study elements represent some of the more significant coordination efforts throughout the planning process:

The assessment of the park system and parkland resources was defined by a study area that included the boundaries of both the City of Dublin corporation limits and the City of Dublin School District boundaries. The overlap and inclusion of both of these boundaries was chosen due to the existing and probable continued relationships with the school system and adjacent municipalities, as well as the physical and geographic extents into which joint efforts of protection of natural resources, acquisition of parkland, community linkages and development are needed.