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Developers (Continued from page 108) a 2,500-seat center field arena, 18 tennis courts with a 400-seat center court, baseball and softball diamonds, an aquatics center, hockey rink and sand volleyball courts. The city will garner the venue revenues. The developers also plan on restaurants, sports bars, sports-related retailers and perhaps a hotel. It envisions a sort of downtown area for the new neighborhoods built on the former base. But wait, there's more for this park whose partially developed outline is twice the size of New York City's Central Park. As per the park master plan, the developers want to build a 178-acre wooded area, a 21-acre lake and miles of hiking and biking trails, however, Lennar wants the wooded corridor on the housing side, not the park side. How does the Irvine City Council feel about the deal? "We are not desperate," Councilman Larry Agran told the O.C. Register. Let's just say the council has concerns about "how much the city will get": how to pay for park maintenance; how it would affect traffic; how much the new plan would "distort" the master plan. Note: The developers say park maintenance ($430 million over 30 years) would come from a special Mello-Roos property tax bond on the homes. Intr-'ee'-iguing Information Request # 625 South of the Republic of Yemen in the Indian Ocean, just east of the Gulf of Aden, lies intriguing Socotra Island. A third of the islands 800 species of plant life are unique to Socotra, like the Dragons Blood Tree. The tree's red sap has long been use for medicinal purposes, but also as a paint and varnish. 110 Landscape Architect and Specifier News Information Request # 370 Information Request # 584