Title
Discuss Potential Park Development to Serve the Trinity Heights Subdivision
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Enhance the Quality of Life in McKinney
MEETING DATE: August 14, 2017
DEPARTMENT: Parks & Recreation
CONTACT: Michael Kowski, AICP CUD, Director of Parks & Recreation
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Consider and discuss potential park development to serve the Trinity Heights subdivision.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* Mayor Fuller and Council member Shemwell have requested that staff review ideas for a park to serve the Trinity Heights subdivision, which currently does not have dedicated parkland or similar amenities within or abutting the neighborhood.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* Trinity Heights is a 40-acre, single-family subdivision containing 168 lots located on the east side of SH 5 and south of Bloomdale Road.
* The City approved the subdivision in 2003 and the neighborhood is completely built out. There is an active HOA that, among other things, owns and maintains common areas within the subdivision.
* The City approved Trinity Heights without a dedicated park. Per the metrics in effect at that time, the developer was required to contribute cash in lieu of physical land based upon a parkland dedication requirement of roughly 2.5-acres, or $88,200.
* The City, then and now, considers accepting cash in lieu of physical parkland in those instances where the dedication requirement is under 10-acres.
* Today, park facilities near this subdivision include North Park/Juanita Maxfield Aquatic Center (15-acres) located about 1-mile to the south, and Inspiration Park (10-acres) situated approximately 1.3-miles to the northwest and attached to Naomi Press Elementary School within the Pecan Ridge subdivision. Oak Hollow Golf Course is also less than one-half mile to the south. These amenities are located on the west side of SH 5, and the measurements referenced above are based on driving/walking distances.
* A 10.4 acre common area wraps around the...
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