North Peoria Area Drainage Master Plan - Flood Control District of ...

NORTH PEORIAAREA DRAINAGE MASTER PLANidentified: Mountain Lands, Slopes, Plains,Commercial Use, Rural Subdivisions, andRiparian Gallery Forest.study area) of the City, additional landscapedretention areas within Planned Area Developments,water recharge areas, open space buffersadjacent to Lake Pleasant Regional Park,the Agua Fria and New River recreation corridorsand New River Dam retention area beused to meet its open space goals of providing10 acres of open space per 1000 population.7ZLQ%XWWHV:DVKMULTIPLE-USE OPPORTUNITIESMultiple-use opportunities are opportunitiesidentified to meet local community needs forrecreation, open space, protection andenhancement of natural landscape and localcommunity character as related to proposedflood control management alternatives. Existingand proposed recreational facilities, managementplans and trails plans are inventoriedon a regional and local level so that the extentto which flood control management alternativescould be used to enhance and connectthese resources can be identified. Regionalpassive recreational resources (existing andplanned) adjacent to the study area include,Lake Pleasant, Hells Canyon Wilderness Area,Castle Hot Springs, and linear park/openspace networks (City of Peoria’s Rivers MasterPlan (January 1999)) that connect with a trailsystem proposed in the City of Peoria TrailsMaster Plan along the Agua Fria River. Figure14 displays the recreational regional context ofthe area. Existing local recreational resourcesare characterized by the privately owned CanyonRaceway, Pleasant Valley Airport, andopen space land use proposed in the City ofPeoria’s General Plan. The City of Peoria’sGeneral Plan recommends that the environmentallysensitive areas in the northern region(includes portions of the North Peoria ADMPAs an element of the North Peoria ADMP, anassessment of opportunities and limitationsfor integrating multiple-use recreational featuresinto preferred flood control managementalternatives was conducted. Opportunitiesidentified are primarily located along MorganCity Wash in the Morgan City Area, UnnamedWashes 1, 2 and 3 in the Big Spring Area, andCaterpillar Wash and Twin Buttes Wash in theTwin Buttes Area. The location of multiple–use recreational facilities along these washcorridors are primarily limited to the 100-yearfloodplain and/or erosion hazard zone andpossible detention/retention facilities, locatedwithin a wash, that may be constructed bydevelopers. Figure 15 displays potential washcorridor trail systems for the north PeoriaADMP area.7\SLFDO9HJHWDWLRQ$ORQJ%DQNV12