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Louisville City Council Meeting January 6, 2004 Page 3 of 12 RESOLUTION NO. 2, SERIES 2004 - A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CITY OF LOUISVILLE OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN Mayor Davidson called for Staff presentation. Land Management Director Cindy Lair recognized and thanked the Louisville Open Space Citizen's Advisory Board (LOSCAB) for their dedicated work on the Louisville Open Space Master Plan. She recognized Patrick Malone, a Naturalist Resources Planner with Boulder County Parks and Open Space, who addressed Volume 2 of the Open Space Master Plan. Lair reviewed that Ordinance No. 1329, Series 2000, directs the Louisville Open Space Citizen's Advisory Board and City Staff develop a long term plan for recommendation to City Council. The plan identifies acquisition, classification, maintenance, management, preservation, and use of open space land. Since Louisville's open space land is either solely owned or owned in partnership with Boulder County and Lafayette, these lands are addressed in separate volumes. The master planning process began in 2000, when the City contracted with ESCO Associates. Most of the land in Volume 1 focuses on passive recreation or protecting wildlife habitat values. Volume 2 addresses open space properties that serve as community buffers. Both volumes are included in the Louisville Open Space Master Plan. The Louisville Open Space Classification Map is included in Volume 1. Lair explained the City of Louisville, the City of Lafayette, and Boulder County jointly own ten agricultural open space properties in the Lafayette-Louisville area that are covered in Volume 2 of the Open Space Master Plan. All of these properties have historically been farmed and are valuable production lands.~ The properties also contain wetlands, riparian areas, and mature trees that provide important wildlife habitat. The draft plan (Volume 2) was presented to Lafayette, Louisville, and Boulder County Open Space Advisory Boards for review in April and May 2003. Lair explained numerous public meetings were offered to involve citizens who wished to provide input to the planning process. Two open houses were offered on April 21 and August 11, 2003. The Open Space Master Plan was discussed at open meeting of the Open Space Citizen's Advisory Board on May 19, July 22, August 18, September 15, and November 3 and 17, 2003. Lair addressed the LOSCAB's desire to reclaim several areas to native prairie or riparian ecosystem, including the Warembourg and the Adler Fingru properties. She extended Staff's commendation to the dedication of the Louisville Open Space Citizen's Advisory Board in the formalization of the Open Space Master Plan. Matt Jones, Chairman for the Louisville Citizen's Open Space Advisory Board, reviewed the work of the Board, and voiced his pleasure at forwarding the Open Space Master Plan to the City Council.