Amendment to the General Management Plan - Great Kills Park Staten Island Unit, Draft

National Park Service

This document is an amendment to the Great Kills Park development concept plan portion of the 1979 General Management Plan (GMP) for Gateway National Recreation Area. The GMP proposed improvement to circulation patterns, facility and open space designs, and the natural environment of the Great Kills area. The purpose of this amendment is to update the GMP to reflect changes in conditions at Great Kills Park. The primary concern is the proposed treatment for the bathhouse. Since completion of the 1979 plan the landforms within the park have been modified through natural processes, and these modifications, particularly on the ocean side, have made GMP development proposals related to the shoreline impractical. Specifically, the shoreline in from of the bathhouse has eroded to such an extent that access to portions of the building has been eliminated and the building is in danger of being isolated from the land; therefore, rehabilitation of the bathhouse, as proposed in the GMP, is no longer an appropriate treatment. A number of other concerns addressed in the 1979 GMP have also been considered in this amendment. This amendment presents three alternatives to the GMP proposal for Great Kills Park, including a preferred and a no-action alternative. The two action alternatives do not vary significantly from the GMP proposal; the greatest variation is the demolition of the bathhouse and the relocation of existing functions and services to other facilities in the park. The level of development under all of the alternatives is the same as or less than that proposed in the GMP.

Amendment to the General Management Plan - Great Kills Park Staten Island Unit, Draft

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