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Plan Element 10: Design standards
<br />10.0 OBJECTIVE: Develop and maintain design guidelines to ensure facilities are accessible, safe, and easy
<br />to maintain, with life cycle features that account for long-term costs and benefits.
<br />Action Item 10.1 Develop Accessibility Standards
<br />Develop and maintain design guidelines for outdoor picnic areas, trails, playgrounds, courts, fields, parking lots,
<br />restrooms, and other active and supporting facilities to be accessible to individuals and organized groups of all
<br />physical capabilities, skill levels, age groups, income, and activity interests.
<br />Action Item 10.2 Develop Design Standards
<br />Develop and maintain design guidelines for indoor facility spaces, activity rooms, restrooms, hallways, parking
<br />lots, and other active and supporting spaces and improvements to be accessible to individuals and organized
<br />groups of all physical capabilities, skill levels, age groups, income, and activity interests.
<br />Action Item 10.3 Develop Maintenance Standards
<br />Design, retrofit, and develop Kittitas County facilities that are sustainable, of low maintenance, and high-
<br />capacity design to reduce overall facility maintenance and operation requirements and costs including the use
<br />of xeriscaping, drought resistant vegetation, native species, and low-water requirements.
<br />Action Item 10.4 Encourage Sustainability
<br />Where appropriate, incorporate low maintenance materials, settings or other value engineering considerations
<br />that reduce care and security requirements, and retain natural conditions and experiences.
<br />Action Item 10.5 Encourage an "Adopt" Program
<br />Where practical and appropriate, implement an Adopt -a -Trail and Adapt -a -Park program where volunteer users
<br />and citizens can perform maintenance, collect litter, and other support activities.
<br />Action Item 10.6 Incorporate Pest Management
<br />Incorporate Integration of Pest Management principles in the management of landscape resources by utilizing a
<br />holistic approach to managing pests using biological, cultural, mechanical, and chemical tools.
<br />Action Item 10,7 Improve Security and safety
<br />Implement the provisions and requirements of the American Disabilities Act (ADA), Washington State Building
<br />Codes, and other design and development standards that improve park facility safety and security features for
<br />park users, department personnel, and the public -at -large.
<br />10.7.2: Develop and implement safety standards, procedures, and programs that provide proper training and
<br />awareness for county personnel.
<br />10.7.3: Define and enforce rules and regulations concerning activities and operations that protect user groups,
<br />county personnel, and the general public -at -large.
<br />10.7.4: Where appropriate, use adopt -a -park programs, park watches, and other innovative programs that
<br />increase safety and security awareness and visibility.
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