Table 2-2: Level of Service for Current Population

TAbLE 2-2: Level of Service for Current Population (Numbers in Parenthesis and Red are Deficiencies)

Level of Service for Current Population City of Oceanside Current Inventory Other Providers Inventory* Total Current Inventory National Guideline Service Level Recommended City of Oceanside Standard Total Facilities Needed Currently for Recommended Standard Total Current Combined Inventory Over/(Under) Recommended

Standard

Playgrounds (ages 2-5, 6-10) 47 15.4 62.4 1 playground per 3,500 persons 1 4,000 43.97 18.43 Picnic Shelters (25+ people) 24 5 29 1 picnic area per 5,000 persons 1 4,000 43.97 (14.97) Trails - Paved Surface (Miles) 15 0 14.76 0.4 miles per 1,000 persons 0.4 1,000 175.87 (161.11) Trails - Non-Paved Surface (Miles) Skate Parks (inline, Skateboard, BMX)

Skatespot 2 5.34 7.2 0.4 miles per 1,000 persons 0.1 1,000 175.87 (168.67) 3 0 3 1 skate park per 50,000 persons 1 50,000 3.52 (0.52) 2 0 2 1 skate spot per 25,000 persons 1 25,000 7.03 (5.03)

Basketball 11 17 28 1 court per 7,500 persons 1 10,000 17.59 10.41

Tennis 16 3 19 1 court per 5,000 persons 1 7,500 23.45 (4.45)

Volleyball

Diamond Fields

Pickleball

Restrooms 4 1 5 1 court per 5,000 persons 1 10,000 17.59 (12.59)

23 1.2 24.2 1 field per 7,000 persons 1 10,000 17.59 6.61

8 0 8 1 court per 5,000 persons 1 7,500 23.45 (15.45)

29 0 29

Multipurpose Fields 28 3.8 31.8 1 field per 5,000 persons 1 5000 35.17 (3.37)

Outdoor Aquatic Center (Square Feet) 2 0 2 1 pool per 35,000 persons 1 50,000 3.52 (1.52)

Community/Recreation Center (Square Feet)

7 0 7 1 center per 26,000 persons 1 25,000 7.03 (0.03) Gymnasium (Square Feet) 3 0 3 1 gym per 26,000 persons 1 40,000 4.40 (1.40)

*Other providers include 40 percent of school recreation facilities with MOUs and 100 percent of Guajome Regional Park since it is located within City limits.

Current Population 2016 175,870

2.3 DESCRIPTIONS OF EXISTING PARKS

2.3.1 Neighborhood Parks

Alamosa Park (Includes Mission Wells Lot) Alamos Park is approximately six acres in size. It has 0.3 miles of a paved trail, barbecues, drinking fountains, multi-purpose field, picnic areas, play equipment, multi-purpose paved area, restrooms, and parking. The park has trees providing shade along its perimeter and where most of the picnic tables are located. The park has a large, turf, multi-purpose field and is mostly flat.

Buccaneer Park Buccaneer Park is approximately six acres and is located across the street from the beach and along the Loma Alta Creek. Amenities include barbecues, basketball courts, drinking fountains, food service, multi-purpose field, picnic areas, play equipment, restrooms, and parking. There are scattered trees providing some shade and there is a shade structure over the picnic tables. The park is mostly flat with a turf multi-purpose field. There is a walking path along Loma Alta Creek.

Cesar Chavez Park This small park is approximately 0.1 acres in size and is located at the intersection of Division and Grant Streets. It includes a partial basketball court, a playground, a small picnic area with shelter, and one drinking fountain. The park is mostly hardscape with little shade.

Fireside Park Located in central Oceanside at the corner of Fireside Drive and Parkside Street, this park is surrounded by residential uses to the north and east and by open space to the west. It connects to the San Luis Rey River Trail via an unpaved trail. This park is approximately four acres and has barbecue pits, a basketball court, drinking fountains, multi-purpose fields, picnic areas, play equipment, paved walking trail, and one volleyball court. There are many trees scattered about the park providing some shade. The park is mostly turf.

Buccaneer Park

Cesar Chavez Park

Heritage Park and Museum

Lake Park Heritage Park and Museum This park is located in central Oceanside, just north of Mission San Luis Rey and is approximately four acres. It features the original buildings of the city’s downtown, including the first General Store, the old city jail, and Libby School. Additionally, the park also offers drinking fountains, picnic areas, restrooms, and a parking lot. The park has trees scattered throughout, providing shade.

Ivey Ranch Park This park is located at the corner of Rancho Del Oro Drive and Highway 76 in central Oceanside. There are several facilities located within the park, including an equestrian center and childcare. The park offers play equipment, a picnic area, and a drinking fountain and restroom facilities that are out of order.

Joseph Carrasco Park Originally named for its location on Skylark Drive, this park was renamed in 1990. The park is located east of Interstate 5 in southwestern Oceanside and is approximately 3.4 acres. The park has a multi-purpose field, which is a flat, turf area. The remaining areas are hilly and have some trees.

Lake Park Located at the southeastern corner of Oceanside, this park is bordered by Lake Elementary to the west and Palm Tree Plaza to the southeast. Lake Park is approximately ten acres and has two baseball fields and one softball field, play equipment, restroom facilities, a shaded picnic area, and a parking lot. There are trees along the perimeter, but the majority of the park is without shade.

Lion’s Club Park Located at the corner of Cassidy and Broadway Streets in western Oceanside, this park is bounded to the west by the railroad tracks. This park is approximately 0.5 acres and is surrounded by residential uses and it is a short walking distance from the beach. It is a multi-purpose turf field with trees along the perimeter.

Marlado Highlands Park Originally owned by the surrounding Homeowner’s’ Association (HOA), this park was incorporated into the City’s inventory in 1993. The park is approximately six acres and is split into two by Rivertree Drive. This park offers barbecues, picnic areas, walking path, and play equipment.

Palisades Park This park is located at the corner of Rancho Del Oro Drive and Vista Del Oro Drive, south of Christa McAuliffe Elementary. This park is approximately 6.4 acres and offers a baseball field, a multi-purpose field, picnic areas, play equipment, and a small parking lot. Trees line the perimeter of the park.

South Oceanside School Park Located at the corner of Cassidy Street and Stewart Street in southwestern Oceanside, this park is adjacent to South Oceanside Elementary School and is approximately four acres. The park includes a diamond field, drinking fountains, multi-purpose fields, picnic areas, play equipment, two tennis courts, and a parking lot.

Spring Creek Park This park is located in the middle of a residential neighborhood in eastern Oceanside and it is surrounded by single-family homes. This park, approximately three acres in size, offers a multi-purpose field and play equipment. Trees line the park’s perimeter. Strand Beach Park (Seagaze Park) This small park, approximately 0.6 acres in size, is located at the corner of The Strand and Seagaze Drive, just across the street from the beach. The park offers a picnic area with shelter, as well as benches and other seating areas.

Tyson Street Park Located along The Strand, this park lies across the street from the beach. This park is about 1.6 acres and offers drinking fountains, picnic areas, play equipment, multi-purpose field, restroom facilities, and ADA parking. Tyson Street Park is connected to Pacific Street Linear Park to the north.

Women’s Club Park The Women’s Club Park is located on Mission Avenue, between San Diego Street and Brook Street. While this space has been designated as a park, is does not provide any open space for passive recreation activities nor does it have any other amenities.

Palisades Park Spring Creek Park

2.3.2 Community Parks

Brooks Street Swim Center Brooks Street Swim Center is an outdoor pool facility featuring a lap pool and a diving area.

Buddy Todd Park Located in southwestern Oceanside, this is a large park, approximately 19 acres, and is surrounded by residential uses. This park offers barbecue pits, a basketball court, drinking fountains, picnic areas, play equipment, restrooms, a volleyball court, multi-purpose fields, a walking trail, and a parking lot. The site is a combination of flat and hilly areas with trees dispersed throughout.

Capistrano Park This park is approximately 14 acres and is located on Capistrano Drive and its surrounded by single-family homes to the north and west. The park has one baseball field and one softball field, a basketball court, barbecue pits, drinking fountains, picnic areas, two playgrounds, restrooms, multi-purpose fields, as well as a parking lot. El Corazon According to the 2009 El Corazon Specific Plan, El Corazon will provide 212 acres of park space. The parkland is spread across nine parks that contain the following:

18 multi-use athletic for sport and other large public events. 7 diamonds dedicated for baseball and softball Numerous passive recreational areas with playgrounds, covered picnic pavilions, and open play areas A minimum of 1,320 parking spaces in 11 parking lots A plaza area, a bandstand, and an interactive fountain area connecting the active park areas with the nearby community center.

Additionally, a destination playground is also planned for one of the park sites. Restrooms, concessions, storage buildings, and press boxes will be part of the parks’ amenities.

Brooks Street Swim Center

Capistrano Park El Corazon

Joseph Sepulveda Park This large park is located in southern Oceanside in the middle of a residential neighborhood and approximately 0.3 miles south of Oceanside Boulevard. The park is notorious for its topography and large undeveloped open space where some trails are located. The side of the park that faces Sherbourne Drive, has a baseball field, a multi-purpose open field, picnic areas, play equipment, barbecue pits, and drinking fountains.

Libby Lake Park This park is named after the lake located on the property. Libby Lake Park lies in northern Oceanside and it is adjacent to Libby Elementary School. This park offers barbecue pits, drinking fountains, picnic areas, play equipment, restroom facilities, a skate park, volleyball court, and a walking path that goes around Libby Lake.

Luiseño Park This park lies at the intersection of Vandergrift Boulevard and Douglas Drive in northern Oceanside and it is surrounded by single-family homes. Luiseño Park offers barbecue pits, one baseball field, one softball field, a drinking fountain, picnic areas, play equipment, restrooms, tennis courts, a trail that goes around the park, and a parking lot.

Mance Buchanon Park Located in north central Oceanside, this large park is adjacent to the San Luis River Trail. This park features two large multi-purpose areas, drinking fountains, a food service area, picnic areas, play equipment, restrooms, and a trail that loops around the park.

Marshall Street Park This park is located in western Oceanside, four blocks west of Interstate 5. The park features the Marshall Street Swimming Center, which has one of the two existing pools in the city. Other amenities found in the park include drinking fountains, picnic areas, play equipment, restrooms, and parking.

Martin Luther King Jr. Park This park is located between Martin Luther King Middle School and Ivey Ranch Elementary. This park offers various amenities, which include barbecue pits, a baseball field, a softball field, drinking fountains, picnic areas, restrooms, a skate park, trails, a parking lot, as well as the only roller hockey rink in Oceanside. It was noted that during school dismissal some parents park and wait in the park’s parking lot for their children.

Oak Riparian Park Known for its terrain and natural state, Oak Riparian Park is located in the southeastern corner of Oceanside, adjacent to the City of Carlsbad. The park features barbecue pits, drinking fountains, a multi-purpose field, picnic areas, play equipment, restrooms, and several trails that cross the natural undeveloped land.

Oak Riparian Park

Martin Luther King Jr. Park

Oceanside Harbor and Beaches Oceanside Harbor offers marine boating facilities and services. The beaches encompass approximately 60 acres of flat beaches used by over 3 million persons annually. The Oceanside Pier is used for fishing, strolling, and sightseeing.

Rancho Del Oro Park This is a large park located in central Oceanside at the corner of Mesa Drive and College Drive. One of the main features of this park is the Joe and Mary Mottino Family YMCA, which offers recreational programs and services for all ages. Additionally, this park has barbecue pits, drinking fountains, multi-purpose fields, picnic areas, restrooms, five tennis courts, and extensive parking.

Ron Ortega Recreation Park This park lies east of Interstate 5 in western Oceanside, just south of the Brooks Street Swimming Center. Most of the park is dedicated to baseball, with four fields. There are also other amenities that include drinking fountains and food service area, picnic areas, play equipment, restroom facilities, and three parking lots. Most of the area to the southeast of the park is gravel and dirt.

2.3.3 Community Centers

Americanization School Also known as the Crown Heights Community Resource Center, this facility is located at the corner of Division Street and Center Avenue. The center was opened in 1996 in response to the high crime rate in the neighborhood. There are several programs offered at this facility, including youth programs and English as a Second Language, as well as a computer lab. Play equipment and artificial turf areas exists in the area outside of the center.

Country Club Senior Center This facility is located on approximately three acres. The center houses classrooms, an auditorium, food service, restrooms, and bocce ball courts.

Oceanside Harbor and Beaches

Rancho Del Oro Park

Americanization School

Country Club Senior Center

El Corazon Senior Center The center is approximately 12,000 square feet has classrooms and meeting rooms, dining room, kitchen space, administrative offices, a fitness room, and a large lobby and reception area with computer stations and a resource library. Once phase two is built, the usable space will be increased by 15,000 square feet and will include additional meeting rooms and rental space.

John Landes Recreation Center Due to budget constraints, this center, at time of the approval of this document, is closed.

Joe Balderrama Recreation Center This center is located in Joe Balderrama Park and is a 12,000 square foot facility. The facility houses an auditorium with a stage and kitchen, game and activities room, four multi-purpose rooms, and two courtyards. Daily childcare, after-school programs, teen programs, a variety of youth sports, dance, fitness, and educational classes, day camps, and community-wide special events, are some of the activities offered.

Junior Seau Beach Community Center This center located below the Oceanside municipal pier, is a 17,000 square foot facility with a gymnasium, meeting room, kitchen, and stage. Basketball, soccer, volleyball, sports camps, day camps, wheelchair rugby, teen programs, and a variety of special events are offered at this facility.

Melba Bishop Recreation Center This 35,000 square foot center is located in Melba Bishop Park. This center houses a gymnasium with two full-sized basketball courts and locker/shower facilities, auditorium, meeting room, dance/fitness room, weight room, and pre-school room. Basketball, volleyball, soccer, sports camps, day camps, tiny tots, after-school programs, teen programs, field trips, and a variety of dance, educational and fitness classes are offered at this center.

YMCA Recreation Center (Non-profit) This center offers an outdoor pool, weight room, cardio room, locker room, group exercise area, and a childcare area. Activities include group exercise classes, personal training, youth sports, adult team sports, martial arts, youth and adult swim classes and leagues, and a variety of child-care. In contrast with other facilities, this YMCA requires membership fees. Boys and Girls Club This center offers multi-purpose rooms and an arena (outdoor) soccer field. Similarly to the YMCA Recreation Center, the Boys and Girs Club requires membership fees.

2.3.4 Schools

These schools have existing MOUs in place that allow the public to use the recreational facilities when not being used by the schools.

Cesar Chavez Middle School The school, approximately 12.4 acres, hosts seven basketball courts, a multi-purpose field, and two tennis courts.

Del Rio Elementary School A basketball court, multi-purpose field, and play equipment are recreation facilities at the school, on approximately 14.2 acres.

Jefferson Middle School This school, approximately 50 acres, has ten basketball courts, a multi-purpose field, and an unpaved trail.

Louise Foussat Elementary School Five basketball courts, a multi-purpose field, two diamond fields, and play equipment comprise the facilities at this school, on approximately 13 acres.

Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School This school, approximately 11.3 acres, houses ten basketball courts, a multi-purpose field, a diamond field, and three tennis courts.

Melba Bishop Recreation Center

Mission Elementary School Two basketball courts, one multi-purpose field, and play equipment comprise the recreation facilities at this school, on approximately 13.6 acres.

2.3.5 Special Use Parks

Oceanside Municipal Golf Course The Oceanside Municipal Golf Course has 18-holes and is located in the northern part of the city, adjacent to Camp Pendleton. There is an all grass driving range and a full-service grill.

Center City Golf Course / Goat Hill Park Center City Golf Course / Goat Hill Park is an 18hole short course. It houses a food/alcohol concession. It also allows disc-golf.

Alex Road Skate Park The park is located on the northwest corner of Alex Road and Foussat Road. The new concrete skatepark is 22,000 square feet and includes street features, two bowls and two snake runs.

2.3.6 Regional Parks

Guajome Regional Park Guajome Regional Park, a County of San Diego park, contains about 4.5 miles of trails. Two ponds draw migratory birds and server as home to a variety of fish. Guajome has two day-use areas with playgrounds, a basketball court, and multi-use fields. There are also 33 tent and RV campsites and a rustic cabin.

Alex Road Skate Park

2.4 GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION ANALYSIS

A Geographic Distribution Analysis (GDA) was performed on the community parks, neighborhood parks, recreation centers, school recreation areas with MOUs, and special use parks. A GDA examines the walktime and drivetime to these facilities as determined by using a Geographical Information System (GIS) based parkshed analysis. The parks GDA analysis took into account the percentage of population being serviced by neighborhood, community, and regional parks. Instead of using radius circles from parks that only consider a direct distance instead of walking, driving, or biking distances. This study utilizes actual network routes that lead to park and recreation facilities. This actual network method is more accurate and since it puts attention on the need to improve the local network in order to improve access to park facilities. The GDA is important, since a general goal for access should be that neighborhood park users live within walking or biking distance of neighborhood parks.

For each neighborhood park, community park, community center, special use park, and regional park, a GIS analysis was completed that generated polygons representing a 15-minute walkshed, given a walking speed of 2.5 mph. The 5-minute driveshed assumed posted speed limits but also assumes a total travel time that includes delay due to traffic signals and typical time spent looking for and parking the vehicle. Resulting walkshed polygons were superimposed on the city base map to see which regions were well covered by park access and to estimate the number of residents served by park type. Results from this analysis are displayed in Figure 2-2 through 2-4. Twenty-three percent of residents are served by the 15-minute walkshed for the neighborhood parks, highlighting the need for additional neighborhood parks, especially north-central and souther Oceanside. The 5-minute driveshed serves 86 percent of the community for parks, community center, special use parks, and regional parks.