Open Space Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2016 01 13

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Open Space Advisory Board Minutes December 9th 2015 Page 3 of 5 C. Open Space is taking over maintenance duties at the end of this year at Bullhead Gulch. Currently the builder is supposed to be doing all maintenance. The builder is fixing up a few last things that the City asked them to address before the handover. D. Ember presented the wayfinding materials to the Youth Advisory Board. They were excited. They are doing a "Trek the Trails of Louisville" volunteer program in May. They would like some assistance from OSAB /staff for this event. YAB will let us know when they have finalized a plan. E. There were 26 attendees at the Climate Change Symposium talk in November. There were 122 participants total over the three talk series. F. 675 citizens attended education events this year. This is over double last year's total. This increase was largely from the addition of the summer ranger program. G. According to the raptor monitoring program, 22 chicks fledged on ten Louisville nests in 2016. H. Consultants are removing 32 prairie dogs from Open Space properties. I. December is the official end of the wayfinding contract. J. Staff are interested in creating a weed database on ArcView. A contractor will likely be hired to start /develop the framework of a database and then staff will fill it in. K. Christopher asked about reports that Etkins Johnson will be breaking ground for new development at CTC and giving cash -in -lieu for Open Space. Christopher wanted to know where that money goes. Sean answered that the money goes to a fund that is controlled by Louisville, Lafayette, and Broomfield allowing them to buy land for Open Space within a certain geographic area. VII. Board Updates - A. Laura announced that she is on the Recreation Center redevelopment Task Force and she can report back to OSAB if interested. Jeff Lipton is one of the Task Force's City Council members. VIII. Discussion Item: Update on the Planning Department's Wayfinding Program Presented by: Sean McCartney- Principal Planner, City of Louisville Sean said that they are piggybacking the wayfinding onto the current Small Area development programs. The goal is to get cars, bikes, and pedestrians through the town. The consultants have been working with the Open Space wayfinding consultants to make sure the two systems work together smoothly. One of the goals is to eliminate sign and pole clutter. They got a lot feedback from citizens (detailed in the packet). Christopher commented that he was concerned that the two systems would be parallel but not integrated. Sean assured the board that he and Ember would be working to marry the systems. Sean wants to have a cohesive look so that "you know are you in Louisville." Their feedback suggests that public doesn't want to see a disruption of the Dark Sky and wants to see elimination of light pollution when possible. Sean cautioned that none of the program is paid for yet and the current project is for all the signs to be designed, but not built. Sean asked the board about directing citizens towards Open Space. Helen clarified that the board is mostly concerned about directing cars towards Open Space that don't have parking lots, creating parking nuisances. Laura asked where the idea of city "districts" comes from. Sean answered that it came from Staff. Laura asked if there could be unintended consequences (such as property value changes) to putting neighborhoods into "districts" and why residential neighborhoods are included into those districts. Sean answered that there wouldn't be any labeling in the neighborhoods themselves, only in the commercial neighborhoods. The map putting 5