Open Space Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2023 09 13

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C140 Louisville PARKS, RECREATION & OPEN SPACE MEMORANDUM To: Open Space Advisory Board From: Acquisition Tiger Team, Laura Scott Denton and Michiko Christiansen Date: September 13, 2023 Re: Discussion Item 9: Review and Finalize Results of the 2023 OSAB Potential Open Space Candidate Recommendations to City Council Included is the 2023 spreadsheet with the results of our driving tour evaluation. Staff used our individual evaluations to calculate an average of each property's value rankings and provided a range of the values reported. They calculated a sum of the three average values and sorted the list from the highest sum to the lowest sum. I compiled comments and goals from what board members wrote on their individual evaluation spreadsheets. Note that the map is from our previous year's evaluation. It will be updated after our meeting. At the September meeting, we will be sorting all the properties into three categories. To try to simplify communication with Council, Michiko and I have decided on the following categories, though they can be further refined at the meeting: --HIGH PRIORITY FOR OPEN SPACE --POSSIBLE CANDIDATE FOR OPEN SPACE --CONSIDERED, BUT NOT A PRIORITY FOR OPEN SPACE AT THIS TIME (This last category can include properties that we like for other purposes, like parks or dog parks.) If you wrote notes on your individual property sheets, please bring them to help with our discussion. We are going to try to come up with a 1st & 2nd goal statement for each property. Some of these will go quickly as there was generally good consensus among board members, and others will require more discussion. Please look at the "possible goals" column from the evaluation spreadsheet to get a sense of what your colleagues are thinking for each parcel and come ready to be decisive (hopefully!). Ember and staff are going to try to give us a little more information about conservation easement status for some of these properties, especially those at the top of the ranking.