GENERAL MUNICIPAL AND COUNTY PARK PLANNING 



basket ball, volley ball and playground baseball, etc., 

 and the high schools have athletic fields. 



Other Public Properties: These include State Normal 

 campus comprising 7.5 acres. State park within fifteen 

 miles of city comprising 300 acres. County court house 

 park of two acres. Several county picnic parks through- 

 out the county equipped with tables, benches, toilets, 

 water. City water department lands comprising 130 

 acres. 



Facilities in Public Parks for Active Recreation: Four 

 parks have children's playgrounds. There are three 

 basket ball courts; four regulation baseball diamonds; 

 nine playground baseball diamonds; two football fields; 

 six horseshoe courts; one running track; two soccer 

 fields; two tennis courts; five volley ball courts; three 

 skating rinks; one golf course of nine holes privately 

 controlled; one shooting range; one bathing beach; 1.5 

 miles of footpaths; 3.25 miles of driveways. 



Service and comfort facilities include: two grand 

 stands seating 2,200 and 4,800 respectively; one band 

 stand; one refreshment stand; one shelter house; one 

 shop; one storehouse; four toilet buildings; one auto- 

 mobile tourist camp; 362 benches. 



The game courts and fields on both public and private 

 property include five regulation baseball diamonds; five 

 football fields; 12 tennis courts; 14 basket ball courts; 

 17 playground baseball diamonds (soft ball); one run- 

 ning track; n volley ball courts; six horseshoe courts. 



COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA 



Population, 1920, 36,162. Estimated population, 

 1925, 39,795. Area of the city, 16.5 square miles, or 

 10,560 acres. 



Park Areas: The park system of the city comprises 

 15 separate properties, counting the boulevards as 

 one property, with a total area of 972.61 acres, or one 

 acre to every 40 inhabitants. The area of the individual 

 properties is as follows: .10, 1.6, 2.15, 2.5, 2.58, 3, 3, 

 3.6, 4.5, 6, 90, 102, 270, 444 acres respectively. The 

 boulevards comprise 37.58 acres. 



All of these properties are located within the incor- 

 porated limits of the city with the exception of the park 

 of 102 acres which is outside about four miles. 



SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA 



Population of the city, 1920, 39,642. Estimated pop- 

 ulation, 1925, 43,551. Total area of the city, 6.8 square 

 miles or 4,352 acres. 



Park Areas: The park system of San Jose comprises 

 659.42 acres or one acre to every 66 inhabitants. There 

 are nine properties the areas of which are as follows: 

 .13, .43, 2.23, 2.23, 3.2, 3.2, 8, 13, and 627 acres 

 respectively. The large park is located five miles out- 

 side the city limits. This system is not well balanced 

 as there should be more larger intown properties of 

 the neighborhood playfield-park type of property. 



School Sites: There are 16 school properties, which 

 may be classified according to size as follows: 



1 to 2 acres 



2 to 3 acres 



3 to 5 acres 

 5 to 8 acres 



10 to 12 acres 

 Totals 



Other Available Recreation Areas: Within a radius of 

 thirty miles of the city the state owns three properties 

 totaling 14,626 acres, and within twelve miles the 

 county owns a park of 200 acres. Within a radius of 

 approximately 35 miles there are nine privately owned 

 recreation places providing picnicking facilities, camp- 

 ing, hunting and fishing. Four of these properties total 

 1,638 acres. 



DECATUR, ILLINOIS 



Population, 1920, 43,818. Estimated population, 

 1925, 53,859. Area of the city, 9.37 square miles or 

 5,996.80 acres. 



Park Areas: The park system of Decatur is under the 

 control of a District Park Commission, the jurisdiction 

 of which extends over a territory larger than the city 

 of Decatur proper. The park properties comprise the 

 following areas: 2, 2, 18, 19, 20, 22, 45, 83, 138, 172 

 acres respectively and various tracts along Lake 

 Decatur totaling 210 acres. The grand total of all 

 park properties is 731 acres, or one acre to about every 

 73 inhabitants. Of these properties 383 acres are located 

 within the city limits and 348 acres outside the city 

 limits. Lake Decatur, in the near vicinity of the city, 

 is a magnificent body of water 14 miles long, approxi- 

 mately one-half of a mile wide and contains 4,000 acres. 



School Sites: There are 18 school sites with a gross 

 area of 57.9 acres. The majority of these sites are too 

 small to provide adequate play space, but the following 

 grounds have acreage areas: 4, 5, 8, 8, 20 acres respec- 

 tively. All these are grade schools and newer schools in- 

 dicating an admirable policy of securing larger grounds. 



Other Recreation Areas: There are four country clubs 

 having areas totaling 480 acres, and an athletic field 

 of eight acres provided by one of the largest manu- 

 facturing companies. This has a grand stand seating 

 4,000. It is used by the town baseball teams and by the 

 high school athletic association. 



PASADENA, CALIFORNIA 



Population of city in 1920, 45,354. Estimated popu- 

 lation, 1925, 56,732. Total area of the city, 20 square 

 miles or 12,800 acres. 



Park Areas: The park and recreation system of 

 Pasadena comprises 15 separate properties totaling 

 1,001.05 acres or one acre to every 56 inhabitants. 



The size of the park areas is as follows: .86 of an 

 acre, 1.25, 2.6, 3.1, 3.4, 4, 5.53, 6.6, 8, 9, 9.53, 13, 22.46, 

 67.03, 334.03, 516.26 acres respectively. This appears 

 to be a very good distribution as between neighbor- 



