Open Space Advsiory Board Agenda and Packet 2024 10 09

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Open Space Advisory Board Minutes September 11, 2024 Page 3 of 4 • Adam: could change language in RFP. With two funding sources makes things complicated. • Bryon: didn't make sense to include trails as a fifth division. • Jessamine: need to emphasize need for trails plan throughout document. • Bryon: can change language to emphasize trails • Andy: how would you even do public input on PROS part without talking about the T part? Require consultants to work together? • David: Boulder has Visitor Master Plan. Something like that might be a good model. • Susan: habitat, conservation, restoration need to be included as well. • Jessamine thought the ordering of document needs to be refined. Why start with water rights (something very specific) rather than a more general subject like the visitor experience and community values? Determine what community values and priorities are? This can guide OSAB and city for years to come. • Adam: everyone agrees acquisition is important but can't agree what to do with it once we get OS. • Adam: funding in 2026 for OS master plan, only department within PROS with funds set aside for Master Plan. • Ember: plans often work together and sub out team members to different areas. • Michiko: PROS plan does not include Trails plan? How would a separate trails MP work? • Bryon: Trails MP will be very detailed; PROS plan is at a much higher level. • David: lots of plans occurring in short time and not necessarily in the most logical order. Should we really even do OS plan before wildlife surveys and so forth? • Bryon: it's a chicken and egg problem. You can argue either way as to order of operations. The funding is aligning to have a trails plan now and future dollars to have detailed OS plans later. Why do a wildlife study in a place where there is no desire to put a trail? • Ember: there is a planned natural resources survey in two weeks of any trail alignment identified in any existing plan and will be surveying anything that comes up in this project. "We also have a pretty good idea of where the sensitive areas are and aren't. Not a lot of surprises." • Discussion on open house and public input strategy. How many should happen? How soon? What style? • David on trails: a trails connectivity analysis would be helpful. Prioritization by importance and timeline. Example of hypothetical RTR connector trails as important but not urgent. Important trails we've advocated for need to be in the plan. Don't need to bring trails to all four advisory boards. • Adam: how did old TMP come to be? • Susan & Michiko: RFP wording change: "proven experience preferred" -> "required" City of Louisville Parks Division 749 Main Street Louisville CO 80027 303.335.4774 (phone) www.LouisvilleCO.gov 5