Two options to transform the Shores property into a park moved forward at the April 16 City Council meeting. Council’s agreement on both plans comes 10 years after the city bought the 5.3-acre site for $8.5 million from the Del Mar Union School District to preserve in perpetuity what has been called the “last remaining open space within city limits.”
Both proposals include a community activity building, below-grade parking structure with 80 spaces, full-size multisport court, picnic plaza and children’s play structure, walking paths, benches, overlook areas and two open-space turf areas.
In both scenarios, the private Winston School currently located on the site will be demolished and rebuilt.
“We’ve accomplished a lot with these two schemes,” Glen Schmidt of Schmidt Design Group said.
In option A, which Schmidt described as more organic, the independent 4,770-square-foot standalone community building would remain in its current location and be rebuilt or remodeled.
The parking structure would be built where the school is now, with the administration building on top of that. The school drop-off area would be south of the driveway.
The school would begin at Stratford with a one-story building that steps up the hill. The second-story roof would be green and at the level of the park so the school wouldn’t be visible from the community building.
“It will look over the roof and it will look like an extension of the park,” Schmidt said.
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