Chapter 6
(2)
Concentration and Mix of Activities. The Main
There is also a great need for new community facilities
Post and Local Troop Centers concentrate many activi-
development, because of the limited existing MSA and
ties and services in consolidated facilities, to create an
other community facilities, and the scarcity of off-post
intensity of activity to attract the individual users and pro-
services. This presents a prime opportunity for coordi-
vide them with a variety of options. They combine, par-
nated development of the needed community facilities,
ticularly in the Main Post Center, all types of retail and
under a comprehensive service concept.
service functions to provide variety and alternatives for
The Community Framework responds to this situation
the individual, exposure to new activities, and options to
with a hierarchy of CAC's and some specialized facilities
appeal to all types of users in the diverse post-wide
(see figure 6 - 1), as follows:
population.
Main Post Center - a large CAC complex for all the
This consolidation means a close mixing of different ser-
major, one-of-,a-kind, post-wide community services and
vice provision agencies. In the Main Post Center, MSA
facilities, central to the whole post, visible and easily
functions are located next to the post exchange, commis-
accessible along the post's main street (the post's
sary, movie theatre, bank, guest housing and post
"downtown").
administrative center. Traditional MSA facility types are
separated into component functional areas to create bet-
Local Troop Centers - small CAC facilities, located in
ter mixing of activities, and to avoid having one area
each troop unit billeting cluster of 6 to 10 barracks, pro-
identified solely with one institution (see figures 6 - 2 and
viding the single enlisted men with their own places for
6 - 4). This mix requires coordinated planning as well as
recreation and other services, and within walking dis-
facility and program operation by the agencies involved.
tance, since many of the troops do not have cars.
Main Sports Complex - major, post-wide sports facili-
(3) Continuous Growth. This Community Framework
ties, including a physical fitness center, indoor swimming
is designed to accommodate the need for continuous
pool, stadium, and baseball field with grandstand.
development discussed in Chapter 3. The functional ele-
Branch Sports Sub-Centers - outdoor sports com-
ments and buildings of the community facilities are
plexes (baseball, softball, swimming), sometimes including
designed to be built in phases while using existing facili-
gymnasiums, shared by clusters of 12 to 30 barracks,
ties in the interim periods. Alternative scenarios of
with some already existing.
phased development are considered, as in the example
Main Dependent Youth Activity Center - a special-
for the Main Post Center shown in figure 6 - 2, and pro-
ized youth facility, centrally located to the family housing
jections are made of the patterns of program use at each
areas and adjacent to youth outdoor playing fields; pro-
stage of partial completion. Each individual functional
viding the youth with their own, separate, identifiably dif-
area may be constructed over several stages, and some
ferent place (see DG 1110-3-138, Design Guide for
facilities may have different interim uses before all func-
Dependent Youth Activity Centers, Large Main DYAC, for
tions are finally or fully accommodated. However, at all
applicable space program and illustrative design).
stages, the facilities work as an operable community
activity center.
Satellite Dependent Youth Activity Centers - two
satellite facilities, located near the on-post elementary
and junior high schools for more local, neighborhood
youth services and activities (see DG 1110-3-138,
Neighborhood DYAC, for program and illustrative
design).
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