Legal Review Committee Agenda and Packet 2019 02 21

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DRAFT — REDLINED IN VIEW OF COMMENTS FROM LEGAL COMMITTEE, PROSECUTOR, AND PARKS, RECREATION, AND OPEN SPACE DEPARTMENT — GROUPINGS NOT IN REDLINE ORDINANCE NO. SERIES 204,82019 AN ORDINANCE REPEALINC AND RE ENACTINC WITH AMENDMENTS C DT A TN SE TIONS O AMENDING TITLES 4 AND 14 OF THE LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING REGULATION OF CITY OPEN SPACE AND PARKS WHEREAS, the City of Louisville ("City") is a home rule municipal corporation, duly organized and existing pursuant to the Louisville Home Rule Charter ("Charter"); and WHEREAS, the City has authority under the Charter to adopt ordinances regulating City open space and parks; and WHEREAS, City ordinances regulating use of open space are codified in Title 4 of the Louisville Municipal Code (the "Code"), and City ordinances regulating use of parks and recreation lands and facilities are codified in Title 14 of the Code; and WHEREAS, Titles 4 and 14 of the Code contain various prohibitions relating to City open space and park lands; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the City (the "City Council") desires to amend the Code to clarify the actions that are prohibited within City open space and parks, and to provide for greater consistency between the prohibitions contained in Titles 4 and 14, so as to encourage greater compliance with and to provide for enhanced enforcement of City rules regulating the use of open space and parks; and WHEREAS, the City Council further desires to amend the Code to extend the prohibitions in Chapter 4.04 of the open space title to lands recommended to the City Council for designation as open space by resolution of the open space advisory board; and WHEREAS, the City Council further desires to amend the Code to extend the prohibitions in Section 14.12.010 to the Louisville Cemetery; and WHEREAS, the City has established the position of Ranger -Naturalist ("Ranger"), who is a -duly authorized to enforce certain provisions of the Code on City open space and park land, including but not limited to the prohibitions contained in Titles 4 and 14; and WHEREAS, some City open space is owned jointly with the County of Boulder or other municipalities; and WHEREAS, the City Council further desires to amend the Code to authorize the Ranger and City law enforcement officers to enforce City ordinances on jointly -owned open space property, and to establish that citations issued for violations are returnable to the Louisville Municipal Court; and 1 Commented [NCI.]: Open Space staff direction: do not extend prohibitions to lands recommended by OSAB for zoning as OS 10