Open Space Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2021 10 21

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significant conflict along an agricultural access road and irrigation ditch including potential safety hazards around large farm equipment. o Option C is not recommended at this time. However, we recommend that it be included for consideration as part of Louisville's planned bike lane expansion project along Highway 42. • Provide amenities and educational/interpretive opportunities along any future trail to facilitate community engagement with the unique cultural, historical, and natural resources at the Mayhoffer Farm. • Update the Agricultural Operating Plan in order to clearly communicate current usage, future plans, and issues that need to be addressed such as water access. We recommend that the plan also be updated to reflect native prairie grass and riparian corridor restoration efforts that will be integrated into current management practices. • Protect and conserve existing cultural and natural resource values of this open space property, including riparian habitat restoration along Coal Creek and native prairie grass restoration within the trail corridor. Community Engagement A key objective for the Mayhoffer Farm Management Plan was to engage traditionally marginalized and underrepresented communities throughout the plan development process. Our work has prioritized in-depth community and stakeholder engagement, pioneering efforts to increase equity, access, and inclusion throughout the project. We began our project by creating a detailed Community Profile to better understand the demographics of Boulder County, Louisville, and Lafayette. This helped us to appreciate the importance of reaching out to the local Latinx community; by 2050, this demographic group is estimated to represent 25% of our local population. The Latinx community is often underrepresented in public processes and the most recent visitor use surveys indicate this group is underrepresented as a proportion of visitors to trails and open space properties. Using recommendations from Boulder County's Cultural Responsiveness and Inclusivity Strategic Plan (CRISP), our team focused on engagement with the Latinx community by hosting a focus group dinner with Latinx community leaders, "Promotores," providing Spanish versions of project materials (i.e. survey instrument, Story Map, online comment form, Management Plan Executive Summary, and meeting memos), and facilitating Spanish translation at this Joint Open Space Advisory Board meeting. Through the translated survey and focus group dinner, our team was met with great enthusiasm from Latinx individuals and families. The Promotores were particularly excited to be engaged in the plan development process and provided great insight on the barriers that prevent them from using local trails/open spaces. Most notably, the Promotores pointed out that they prefer to spend their free time with friends and family. Many open space trails are not safely accessible on foot 4