Legal Review Committee Agenda and Packet 2019 02 21

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11: City,/ im Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 LEGAL REVIEW COMMITTEE COMMUNICATION SUBJECT: DATE: PRESENTED BY: ORDINANCE NO. 1760, SERIES 2019 — AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLES 4 AND 14 OF THE LOUISVILLE MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING REGULATIONS OF CITY OPEN SPACE AND PARKS FEBRUARY 21, 2019 NATHAN MOSLEY, DIRECTOR OF PARKS, RECREATION, AND OPEN SPACE SUMMARY: With the addition of a Ranger Naturalist Program, the Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Department has reviewed the Open Space and Park Titles of the Louisville Municipal Code. Portions of the current Titles have not been updated since 1977. As such, some policies are out of date and the language is difficult to interpret. Staff has also compared the Louisville Municipal Code to the ordinances of similar municipalities to ensure Louisville remains consistent across the region in Open Space and Park regulations and socio-political trends. While the Municipal Code is a necessary tool for Rangers to perform their job duties, the code does not set the vision for the Louisville Ranger program. The Louisville Ranger program is envisioned to be a small-town, community oriented program that supports visitors in having safe, informed, responsible, and enjoyable experiences in Open Space and Parks. Parks & Recreation Department staff recommends the following revisions to Municipal Code: 1. Clarify and authorize the Ranger -Naturalist to enforce prohibitions in the parks and open space titles 2. Authorize the Ranger -Naturalist and law enforcement officers to enforce the prohibitions in the open space title on jointly -owned open space, and establish that citations issued on jointly -owned open space are returnable to the Louisville Municipal Court (subject to future agreements between the City and applicable co -owning authorities) 3. Extend the prohibitions in the parks title to include the Louisville Cemetery 4. Revise the Open Space and Parks Titles to add new prohibitions, and to improve transparency and ease of interpretation by clarifying language and restructuring the titles so that similar prohibitions are grouped together and so that the titles have parallel structure. A draft ordinance was reviewed by the Open Space Advisory Board on April 11, 2018 and by the Parks and Public Landscaping Advisory Board on May 3, 2018. Recommendations were solicited from both boards and factored into final staff edits. CITY COUNCIL COMMUNICATION