Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2018 05 03

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Cityof Louisville PARKS & RECREATION Memorandum To: Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board From: Aubrey Hilte, Ranger Naturalist Date: April 24th, 2018 Re: Update on Municipal Code Revisions to Open Space & Parks Titles With the addition of a Ranger Program, the Parks & Recreation Department has been requested to revise the Open Space and Park titles of the Municipal Code. Over the past few months, there have been several discussions among Open Space, Park and Legal staff to identify gaps in the code and desired revisions. Currently, the Departmental recommended Municipal Code revisions have been evaluated by OSAB and are set to go to Legal staff for review and finalization. Final revisions will be presented to City Council on May 15th, 2018 for First Reading and June 5th, 2018 for Second Reading. The goals of the Municipal Code revisions are as follows: 1. Revise code to be more straight forward and digestible by the general public. 2. Group like Ordinances under umbrella Categories. 3. Make Open Space and Parks Titles as similar as possible (like ordinances at beginning and unique at bottom). 4. Give Director and duly authorized employees the ability to complete their daily duties. 5. Allow the Rangers to better enforce the law, ensure safety of users, generate compliance and perform duties. While reading the following Recommended Municipal Code Revisions spreadsheet, please keep the following formatting notes in mind: The Open Space and Parks divisions will retain separate Municipal Code Titles; however, in order to meet Goals 3 & 5, the language in each Ordinance will be virtually identical in each Title. Existing Open Space Ordinances are listed in Dark Green in the left-hand column and existing Parks Ordinances are listed in Dark Orange in the right-hand column. The center column contains the proposed language for the new, revised Ordinances. Red text indicates changes and omissions made to existing language. A Joint Ordinance Key can be found on Page 10 of the document indicating the meaning of each color for the Joint Ordinance.