Fwd: Red Rock Canyon Public Process to Resume this Summer

Martin 

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From: Martin Palmaz <martin@ushpa.aero>
Date: May 22, 2012 9:45:30 MDT
To: Martin Palmaz <zamlap@gmail.com>
Subject: FW: Red Rock Canyon Public Process to Resume this Summer

 

From: Bryarly, Sarah [mailto:sbryarly@springsgov.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 4:14 PM
To: Bryarly, Sarah
Subject: Red Rock Canyon Public Process to Resume this Summer

 

We are happy to announce that the public process for the Red Rock Canyon, White Acres and Section 16 Master and Management Plans is slated to resume this summer, with information for you to review in June-July and meetings resuming on August 1^st. Please review the upcoming schedule and put the dates on your calendar right now.  Please note the TOPS Working Committee and the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board meet at 7:30 a.m. take place at the Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services building (1401 Recreation Way).   All meetings are scheduled for Wednesdays, except Parks Board which is Thursday morning.

 

The meetings and topics look like this:

 

Time and Date	Type of Meeting	Topics	Location
6:30 p.m. Aug. 1	Public Workshop	-         Brief "refresher" on where the process left off in October -         Status of the pond -         Existing conditions and site assessment -         Information on the trails standards process to come -         Review of a few trail possibilities	Westside Community Center, 1628 W. Bijou St.
6:30 p.m. Aug. 22	Public Workshop	-         Trail system principles -         Draft program areas -         Draft trails plan	Same as above
6:30 p.m. Sept. 5	Public Workshop	-         Natural resource management -         Rules of use -         Revenue and sponsorships -         Interpretation and education -         Design guidelines	Same as above
Drop in between 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. Oct. 10	Open House	-         Review of the draft Master and Management Plans	Same as above
7:30 a.m. Nov. 7	TOPS Committee	-         Review / recommendation to forward to Parks Board for approval of Recommended Plans	Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services Department, 1401 Recreation Way
7:30 a.m. Dec. 13	Parks Board	-         Review / approval of Recommended Plans	1401 Recreation Way

 

To refresh your memory about where we left off last fall, please go to the City's web site (www.springsgov.com/RRC) to take a look at the results from the meetings held in September and October. You accomplished a lot of good work at those meetings, and we intend to build on that foundation and move forward from there. Since we last met, the Tapis and Associates team has  analyzed your input from all the previous meetings, identified areas where further public input is needed, and begun assessing management and operational components with the Parks staff.  

 

In order to address one of the concerns we heard from some of you attending last fall's meetings, we plan to spend less time at each of the meetings giving you information. To accomplish this, we'll ask each of you to "do your homework" by reviewing this information prior to each meeting so you can spend more time hearing from each other and less time hearing from us. Prior to each meeting we will be posting online the information to be considered at that meeting.

 

We will be in touch again in a few weeks with information about how to prepare for the first meeting on Aug. 1. Hope your summer is off to a great start and we will look forward to seeing each one of you again in August. If you have questions, don't hesitate to send me an email.

 

Sarah

 

Sarah A. Bryarly, RLA

Landscape Architect

Parks, Recreation and Cultural Services