Council adopts Bella Breeze Community Park master plan; phase‑one trimmed to a ~$6M package

The City Council adopted the Bella Breeze Community Park master plan on March 26 after staff and consultants presented the results of extensive community outreach and a phaseable design.

Engineering manager Araceli Casares and Stantec landscape architect Dalton Lavoie described a process that included more than 1,000 responses to the first community survey and roughly 900 to a second survey and public meetings. The second survey ranked four concept designs and produced a clear preference for Concept D, which evolved into the preferred master plan. The plan incorporates the top‑ranked amenities from the outreach: children’s playgrounds (most requested), a walking/jogging perimeter loop, shade structures, picnic/barbecue areas and ballfields.

The preferred concept assembles those elements around a central multi‑sport turf field, shaded playgrounds for different age groups (including a fenced tot lot), a teen activity node, expanded parking near Bella Breeze Drive and a long loop trail that frames the park along the open‑space edge. Dalton said the total conceptual cost for full buildout is about $24 million. Staff proposed a constrained Phase 1 package sized to available funding—about $6 million—intended to deliver the playgrounds, shaded family picnic area, restroom, an initial large central field (no lighting in Phase 1), informal turf areas and a perimeter loop trail; gravel parking would provide 50–60 stalls in the near term.

Councilmembers and public commenters asked about ongoing maintenance and water resources. Staff calculated ballpark maintenance needs and advised the council that maintenance funding would come from the citywide maintenance CFD and other fee sources; staff noted that a full buildout would require continued funding strategies and that phase sequencing was designed to allow incremental utility installation and grading so later phases can be added without redesign. Councilmembers thanked staff for the outreach and approved the master plan.