Open Space Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2015 01 14

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Open Space Advisory Board Minutes November 12th, 2014 Page 2 of 7 4 Old Town Trail Old Town Link 5 Winter Wheat Trail Farmer's Trail 6 East -West Trail Mining Trail 2) The wayfmding consultants will be presenting at the January OSAB meeting. 3) Ember shared maps of the proposed and current memorial bench locations for several Open Space properties. The current proposal is that the City will pre - install benches in locations that the city needs, then interested parties can pay to retroactively defray the installation costs of their choice of bench, and to have it engraved. She hopes that OSAB members will have a chance to perhaps visit some of these properties and decide whether they agree with the proposed density and locations for benches. Spencer expressed his concern about the lack of a coherent City policy about memorial benches. Ember explained that this issue will be discussed as an agenda item in January. Helen mentioned that the Open Space memorial program does not need to be limited solely to benches: people may want to commemorate their loved ones by sponsoring Open Space programs or making other sorts of contributions. She suggested that the January agenda reflect that loosening of the program's purview and asked board members to brainstorm on that idea. 4) Ember sent around a spreadsheet for OSAB members to estimate the hours they spent volunteering for Open Space in 2014. 5) The Wayfmding process is moving forward. 6) The Coal Creek Trail's repair work is complete, though some of the benches aren't yet installed. 7) Prairie dog control work is almost complete. 8) Harlan is working on an Open Space social trail mapping program. The goal is to show how the trails have changed in widths and extent since the previous social trail maps were made. VII. Board Updates 1) Tom commented that he visited the proposed underpass under Hwy 36. He felt that there isn't great connectivity to Davidson Mesa. He observed that the alignment between the underpass and the Davidson Mesa trails is awkward. He suggested that OSAB may want to make comments for its improvement before the process goes much further. VIII. Discussion Item: Public Posting of Acquisition Rubric Malcolm has received a request for the OSAB property acquisition rubric being made public. This is a spreadsheet listing properties for potential City acquisition and ranking them by rating them by a variety of Open Space - specific criteria. It is already publicly available, but only buried within past OSAB meeting minutes. This is a discussion about whether the spreadsheet ( "the rubric ") should be linked explicitly on the City webpage. Christopher thought it may create unrealistic expectations for neighbors and citizens, as they might come to believe that all of these properties will eventually belong to the City, inflating the values of properties adjacent to the target properties. He also expressed concern that this information could increase the purchase prices of the target properties themselves. Tom thought having their properties on the list may intimidate property owners, and be counter - productive to future negotiations with them. In response to a question from the board, Christopher shared that the state board does not publish their list 4