Four Corners Master Plan Highlights
Approved and Adopted (December 1996)
Theme 3 - Community Facilities & Linkages
Vision
Community facilities must meet the recreational, social, educational, and human service needs of area residents. This Plan recommends that the physical connections between the community's resources and the residents be strengthened and improved.
Highlights
This Plan recognizes that public facilities and services are the building blocks of community. These facilities and services provide a tangible measure of a community's character and value. Frequent shared use of these community facilities creates a feeling of belonging and commitment among local residents. Each of the Four Corners neighborhoods contains a local park within or in proximity to its boundaries. In addition, residents have access to two distinctly different linear stream valley resources - Sligo Creek, with its many active recreational facilities and a hiker-biker trail through its length, and Northwest Branch, an underdeveloped park for passive recreation.
Recommendations
- Strengthen and improve the physical connections - sidewalks and bikeways - between the community's resources and the residents.
- Acquire the six-acre property at 315 University Boulevard for parkland.
- Develop a small portion of the Blair High School site for community use.
- Preserve and maintain all existing parkland and recognize the Northwest Branch as a valuable County resource.
- Establish greenways in the Northwest Branch, Sligo Creek, and Long Branch stream valley parks to protect scenic features and natural habitats, and to provide continuous north-south corridors for recreation
Date of last page update: November 27, 2007
