 Good evening everyone. I just wanted to let you know we're going to start the meeting in just a few minutes. We're going to allow a few more minutes for folks to join the meeting. And we're going to get started in just a couple minutes. So good evening everyone just want to get go ahead and get started. We saw the few people joining the meeting but we'll go ahead and and move forward. Thank you all very much for attending tonight. I know you all have very busy schedules and really appreciate you being with here with us tonight. Tonight the meeting is to take scoping comments or what I call preliminary comments from the community regarding the notice to prepare an environmental impact report for Rosalind Creek Community Park. I'm Jen Santos and the Deputy Director for the City of Santa Rosa Parks. And tonight we also have two staff members providing our virtual hosting for us tonight, Alisa and Shelley. They will explain how to provide your comment later in the presentation and of course the assistant facilitate with this meeting tonight. Next slide please. We also have interpreter services tonight for today's in Spanish for today's meeting provided by Charles and Pablo. So at this time can our zoom host explain how the interpreter services will work. Yes, thank you Jen. Live interpretation can be heard on the Spanish channel. You can join the Spanish channel by clicking on the interpretation icon and zoom in the zoom toolbar. It looks like a globe. Interpretation in vivo se puede escuchar en el canal de español puede unirse al canal de español haciendo click en el icono de interpretación en la barra de herramientas de zoom que ahora parece como un globo. At the time question questions and answers and public comment the interpreter on the panel will be prepared to assist anyone needing interpretation. It is recommended that you shut off the main audio so you can clearly hear the Spanish interpretation additional instruction will be given at that time. Jen back to you for additional housekeeping for today's meeting. Great. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. So later this evening you'll have the opportunity to provide your feedback. Thank you for your time Jen. The floor is yours, comes up to my table. Thank you. Your time is up. I'm sorry. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Great thank you, so much. I appreciate it. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. So later this evening you'll have the opportunity to provide your comments regarding the notice of preparation for an environmental impact report. And at that time, you can raise your hand in zoom if you're participating in zoom. And our zoom host will move, move you one by one down the list of attendee attendees with their hands raised. Once you have shared your input, your comment, the zoom host will then lower your hand. You will have three minutes for your comment and a timer will appear on the screen. If you have additional comments as time allows and other comments have been heard. We'll definitely do our best to allow additional three minutes at the end allow for everyone to have their time to speak. If you're calling in from a telephone, either a smartphone or a landline for privacy concerns, the host will be renaming you to your viewable phone number to citizen and only last four digits of your phone number will show for privacy. Additionally, the city of Santa Rosa is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment free firm disruption and will not tolerate hateful speech or actions. Everyone is expected to participate respectfully, or if necessary, the me will end immediately. Next slide please. So the meeting tonight is again like I said a scoping meeting whereby we're listening to you tonight and collecting your preliminary comments regarding the notice to prepare any IR. I'd like to introduce our two other folks with us tonight. From our environmental consultant team will burns from David J. Powers and associate and also Connor is on the line to all that will introduce him. Thank you for our environmental consultants for this project and I'm going to turn this slide over to will and he'll describe the meeting and the purpose of our EIR a little bit, a lot more information about it. Great, thank you, Jen. Good evening. My name is will burns and I'm a principal project manager with David J powers and associates. So our firm is assisting the city of Santa Rosa with the preparation of the environmental impact report or EIR for short. The Roseland Creek Community Park master plan project. As Jen mentioned the purpose of today's meeting is to accept comments from the public regarding the scope of the environmental impact report that will be prepared for the proposed project to construct a new community park to serve the Roseland neighborhood. The purpose of an EIR is to inform the public and decision makers about potential environmental impacts of the project and also identify mitigation measures and alternatives to reduce or avoid those impacts. Your feedback today will be used to guide how the environmental impact report will be prepared. And the EIR will analyze the direct and indirect physical environmental effects of the project on the 20 resource areas identified in the California environmental quality act guidelines. So some of the primary environmental issues anticipated for the project include the potential for biological resources, cultural resources, hazardous materials, and construction impacts to air quality and noise to result from the project. So this meeting is not intended to approve or deny the project. We're simply here to collect comments from the community on the scope of the environmental impact report. And there's additional opportunity to comment if you if you don't comment this evening. So this is a preparation of the environmental impact report that was published on August 8, and the city will be accepting written public comments on the NOP through September 9. And with that, I'll turn it back over to Jen. Thanks, Will. And as will mention, this is not the only time to participate. So, if anything, we do have a lot of information at the end on how to get in touch with us and how to communicate outside of this meeting with us about your comments. So this recreation and parks website is always really helpful. We will get you what you need to provide your comment. If you know somebody that can attend tonight and like to provide a comment. So this is our aerial map of the city of Santa Rosa showing the southwest side of Santa Rosa. The park Rosa Creek Community Park, the project site is highlighted in orange yellow color there. It is south of highway 12 and west of highway 101. Next slide please. And so this is an enlarged zoomed in look at the project site for Rose Creek Community Park. It's surrounded on two sides on the north and the east side. The residential family homes and on the south by rural residential parcels. You'll see across the creek on Burbank Avenue is Rose Creek Elementary School. Rose Creek does run through the property and the property is outlined here in yellow of course. We've already shared this property in phases with assistance from the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space Districts matching grant program. And the park is just under 20 acres in size. And you can see there that we have a lot of oak trees and grasslands. There are also several structures towards the top right corner of the map, as well as in the middle those were existing houses. We also have some concrete driveways gravel driveways, etc as far as structural on the existing site. The last two years that above ground structures for these homes were removed. And what remains is that concrete foundations or the foundation for the home as we move forward. Next slide please. And this this is a little bit different than the slide you just saw it just tilts it to the right so I can fit it on this page that this is the current proposed master plan project site developed for many years with community input and also it does meet the development restriction placed on the site by the ag and open space as part of that matching grant program I mentioned earlier. There are some restrictions for limiting types of paving and impermeable surfaces and similar restrictions. And the master plan proposes a nature center, which is that white square kind of in the center left of the of the project site, along with this is it's associated parking lot, and that little branch page areas of the project site are trails and pathways throughout the site. We also have moving down to the south, a We have a restroom building play area based on a nature theme, a parking lot down there on top of an existing gravel driveway for access to this side of the park, because the creek does bisect the park. We also have irrigated long space for for play. Not organized play but just play and picnicking etc. We also have a variety of picnic areas in the middle of the site as well as in the southern portion. These are usually just single tables by themselves. As well as we have interpreted or educational signage planned for alongside the trails on the southern part and middle part of the actually all around the park relates those orange dots all around and again this is a plan. It's an idea it's not, it's not a construction plan. This was, these are things we heard from the community. So we planned to put those interpretive signages into the community requested three languages to be used for that so we're excited to do that. There are to pedestrian bridges crossing the creek there. And I call this line it's yellow and beige looks like a snake. It is. It's a purpose trail. It's really bicycles and pedestrians on there. We also have a sport court as part of the parking lot, as well as a outdoor classroom or community garden kind of in the middle to the right. Whatever ends up being developed there. There's a lot of information there of the master plan overall is designed to preserve and enhance the habitat values of the existing grassland equipment repair and purple needle grass habitat, which would be left of course intact and interpreted about its importance, and would also contain the park would contain the trails and educational signage. The little green squares on the plan are fitness trails a lot I mean fitness stations, next to the trails so you can get a little bit higher activity level. And that only on that southern part of the park. And the park is also of course intended to be developed for all access. So that would still limit the amount of paving and keep and interpret the natural aspect of the park. Next slide please. So as we as will and I mentioned earlier this, this meeting tonight is to take any comments you have. As we are going into the producing the EIR in the future, we want to hear from you we're getting trying to get out ahead of that year to hear from you tonight to see if before we start moving into that too far. What sort of comments would you have for us early on. And so I am going to turn it back over to our host to explain how to participate in the public comment portion of the meeting. Thank you. Thank you Jen. Accountant timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and viewers. 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If you have additional comments as time allows, and all other comments have been heard, we will do our best to allow an additional three minute comment. I do not currently have any hands raised. All right, thank you. Thank you. Oh, we do have one and before we, before we take that I just wanted to skip a tiny bit ahead just to let you know kind of will have the fuller scope of the entire process coming up after these comments. So we'll go over that and I'll have contact information for you as well for for following this but I'll turn it back to our host for continue on with our comment. Thank you. Gregory, we're going to ask you to go ahead and talk. Please unmute yourself. Thank you. My name is Gregory Farron and I think you just answered my question which is. I publicly comment on lots of things but I usually wait for someone to suggest something I should comment on to give me a chance to be able to, you know, to provide you some feedback and so far everything's been so temporary. You know, you, I know that you've come up with a plan I know you're going to do any IR, but none of it is specific enough or controversial enough or even questionable enough for me to even comment on. So I think I'll just wait until that time and comment then. I appreciate that and I understand it's not a lot of information but we like to. Not necessarily a requirement but we like to get out ahead of producing so we, if by chance there is something we should be aware of or any comment whatsoever we'll happily take that in and go from there. So I think we have one more person I'll turn it back to our host. Thank you, Wendy. We're going to ask you to unmute. My name is Wendy I have a quick question on the impact of traffic. When construction or work gets started will it be coming from her and Avenue. And if it does that concerns me, because there is a huge amount of traffic with all the construction that's going on in this area that I'm seeing way more trucks on her and working it more difficult as school starts there's times that it's hard to pull out onto her and and I'm hoping requesting that a lot of the trucks or traffic that's needed for the park to be done from Burbank. That's it. Thank you. Thank you, Wendy. Yeah, thank you when they appreciate it and certainly we're not looking at, you know, possible construction until late next year at the earliest. But it's a really good point that we can take into consideration as we get closer to that and I don't know well if you had anything else or we're good. Okay, so got a couple more. Hunter, we're going to ask you to unmute. Hey yeah. I would just like to make sure that there's a plan at some point I mean I'm sure the construction trucks driving down that and the additional traffic coming to the park is just going to make that worse. So I want to make sure that there's a plan at some point to repave that street given how much impact this is going to have on that. And I have no idea if this belongs in this forum. But there's a lot of kids that that and this is probably already been said, because I'm just joining this project now but there's a lot of kids that that ride their bikes or walk their bikes across the field currently from the school on the other side. And so the current design doesn't look like it's, I mean I see that there's a multi use trail. But you may want to consider if the funding allows for it paving an additional trail to cross the park I get that we're trying to save nature here but they're going to use it regardless and so we want to make sure that that trail isn't destroyed by bikes and just plan for that ahead of time. And specifically a trail out of the, the parking lot that's on the left doesn't look like that one's a multi use trail and you might want to consider making that such. Thanks. Thank you hunter. Thank you. And just to I heard you about with men will definitely circle back with our public works, folks to see what their plans are for that street, and there is going to be a trail connecting the men to Burbank and then across Burbank. I think I probably forgot to mention that part, we're going through that, and it'll be a flashing light, and it's proposed to be a paved permeable paved some sort of paid service to kind of help with all access to the park so I appreciate your comments. Thank you, Chanel, go ahead and unmute. Hi. Hi, I'm Jenelle and I live just around the corner from this park. I'm very excited about the design of the park. I have a young son and he's already taught, he's watching the meeting and he's very excited about all the things that he sees in the park. I think the thing that I do a lot of homeless people that are living there, either in RVs along McVin or kind of in the woods. So, I think the environmental impact report usually analyzes the impact of do the development, but there's an impact and not doing the development as well because the, you know, allowing the homeless people to continue. And the other question I have is, how are we, how are you planning to make sure that the park stays nice, once it's there. That's the issue right now. We will walk on the fire road, but we, we don't walk in the little trails in the woods just because there are a lot of people living back there and it feels a little weird. So, that's all. Thanks. Thanks to now I appreciate it and I'll just, I have a website I'm going to say it, but it's also something you can look up on the city's website. It's called homeless at srcity.org. And that's one way you can help report if there's an issue at the park we definitely want to know about it and we don't want to document what's happening there and appreciate that. Even folks parked along the park would be good to have that information to the folks that need to see it there's a multidisciplinary crew that's looking at those comments that come through. So I would regard to the ER, I don't know, will if you want to add anything there but otherwise, you know, thank you. Yeah, I would just add that the that Janelle's correct that we're looking at the direct physical impacts of development of the park. So, I think we did note previously and in the master plan that the park gates are going to be locked in the evening, you know, first standard city practice. Thank you, john. We're gonna ask you to unmute. Okay, there we go. I'm john's wife. My husband and I live on Hughes Avenue, and we have been with this committee for probably 30 years now trying to keep this acreage behind us as a nature park. We had it all decided there were many, many meetings, and now all of a sudden it's totally changed. I'm kind of wondering where those plans went to, to keep this a nature park to prevent people from having a bathroom here where that will only draw more homeless, and not have a parking lot for the homeless because you're basically inviting them in. We have a lot of traffic we have a lot of homeless, there's been fires all sorts of stuff. And I am pretty concerned about this type of development in my backyard. That's it. So thank you appreciate that comments and we'll include that and you know also we had some additional contact information if you want I'm not exactly sure. So that plan you might be talking about we've had definitely about 11 years worth of changes to the plan and what was going to happen there so we can always, you know, happy to talk with you a little bit further and and get that information out to you and then will I didn't know if you had anything else or are we good there. All right, thank you, Judy, we're going to ask you to unmute yourself. Hi I just, we have property south of the proposed park. And I also live in Roseland and frequently go through the Southwest Community Park on her. And I'm curious, if you don't enforce the rules at that park how are you going to enforce the rules at this park. There's an area that I feel very uncomfortable and I walk through in the morning, because there's people who have actually like permanent furniture there, and they're there every day. The rules aren't enforced. I mean, yes, supposedly close at night but there's people there. And I don't know how you're going to enforce the rules at this park if you don't enforce the rules at the other park. Thank you, Jody appreciate that. And I totally understand it's it's a problem all across the city for us as we are doing our best with many departments. As well as police for enforcement and maintenance for keeping up as best as we can. We have about 1517 maintenance folks plus we had a contract for mowing services, but everything else is provided by the city's team right now so we're doing the best we can to keep up with everything we certainly can. You know the Rose and Creek as will mentioned earlier is proposed to have gates locks so that's helpful for us and other parks where we do that is really helpful to control that kind of activity, whereas Southwest it's a little different. And Southwest it's not you know that's a park also that was developed many, many years ago and is due for a bit of an update itself as well so we can definitely talk a little bit more as we go through and if you'd like to talk further with me. I do have time and contact information as well. But thank you for that. We have no hands raised at this time. Well, Wendy. We're going to go and ask you to unmute and allow you three more minutes. Thank you. I meant to ask you mentioned that it's all access that you're going to be providing on those trails. I have a disability sometimes needing to use cane sometimes I've had to use a walker and I'm wondering if by all access. This is what it's is meant that I could use those and how much of the trails will be have that ability, and thank you. Thank you, Wendy. Yes, that I, you know, thanks for that question for me to clarify that yes, all access means persons with disabilities can access those trails so we're looking at hard paved surfaces of some sort so that it's a stable surface for those needing it for all of our primary trails, we might have some secondary trails that are more natural and in to what's there now made by folks so we can meet those as is, but all of our primary trails throughout and looping throughout the park so that we'll have all access and all areas so that it'll be equal access for, for those who need it throughout the park that there may be a few little tiny spur trails here and there that are left as is so hopefully that helps. All right, Barbara, we're going to ask you on you. I was curious as to what the time frame is how long the environmental impact report will take, and then how an idea of how many decades it would take to actually start doing the work. And also a second question is there. Many years ago there were in the plan there was a Native American display, and I know the EIR talked about the cultural impacts and I wondered what happened to that and if anything's further will be developed about that. Thank you. I appreciate that. And so that I'll circle back with will about the exact more, you know closely with the timeline but we're looking at January to January to move through this environmental process. And then from there we've got quite a bit of additional work to do with getting the project ready, and the construction will be later next year at the earliest. So we have a requirement from the Ag and the Sonoma County Ag and open space district to build that northern trail from McMinn to from yeah McMinn to Burbank over to the school and we really want to do that so that we can provide that safe travels, you know, route to school for students and anybody else accessing that. And we were very eager to do that project. And so that'll be the first thing we do and from there we'll look at what sort of funding we have to go from there. And let's see. I think I might have as a well turned back to will for maybe if there's anything to correct in my timeline. No, I think that timeline is accurate. Yeah, drop the IR towards the end of the year, January time frame. Okay. And Barbara I think I might have missed your other. Yes, if I answered your question and if not circle back or will do you remember. Yeah, there was a question about a potential Native American display. Okay. I believe there was some consultation done with tribes and developing right. You are correct and things for that that I wrote down but I couldn't read my own writing so yes we did contact to tribal nations who provided us really good feedback on what they requested. And originally about eight years ago there was an idea of a of a tribal area. And so we asked our tribal nations what they would like to see there and they express that they would not like to see that, but they instead would like to see access for elders they would like the trees along the creek to be identified as species, the species type. They also were requesting water. A gay drinking fountains fire with barbecues and places for picnicking that they could enjoy the park. So we'd look to provide interpretive services. If our tribal nations would be open to that we would love to work with them to provide any sort of historical documentation of their tribal lands their former tribal lands at anything we would like to definitely work with our tribal nations but that's what we've received so far, we may receive more feedback from our tribal nations as we move forward but we are open to working with our nations out there and look forward to. Any further comments I have no hands raised at this time. Great Jen, we'll turn this back over to you. Alrighty thank you so much. Let's go ahead and go on to slide eight or the next slide. And so I again I just want to thank you all. I know it's very, very preliminary but it's really important for us to hear from you early on, and you'll have many other opportunities to provide your comments as you think about the project and hear about it. As we go forward, as will mentioned, we are looking at September 9 as the date where we're collecting all of our comments from all of you tonight as well as folks who are writing and calling in the comments. The next step of course is wills team will be preparing the environment draft environmental impact report. It will be that report then will be available for comments for 45 days. And the also part of the final ER that's prepared will or the draft final pre EIR will provide comments back in part as part of that draft EIR responses to comments that we receive during the entire timeline for that. We do anticipate city council review of the IR. In January, if not sooner, if we can get through all of our steps in time. There's a lot to do with this with this project. There is a website. It's srcity.org forward slash Roseland Creek Community Park. That website will contain all of our updated information and what's going on with the project at all times, of course you can always call us as well. Will did you have anything else to add here about our next steps processes. I think you've, you've addressed it the draft EIR really is following the NOP comment period that end September 9 that's the next opportunity for the community to provide the city comments on the EIR and then those those will be addressed as part of the final EIR will respond any comments on the content of the draft EIR. It's accurate. Thank you. Well, I appreciate it. All right, let's roll to our next slide please. And so this is the contact information. I was mentioning earlier on, certainly we definitely want to hear from you. My email is jsa and TOS as Jay Santos at srcity.org. And of course my phone number and the city's website I mentioned earlier are available or you can always just call recreation and parks and they'll we'll get you what you need a comment form and or just take down your comment for you from there. And for your participation tonight I know it was a really quick one, which is collecting information but certainly were available if you would like to communicate further and it was a couple of you that mentioned a few more detailed information and maybe those are worth a longer conversation and I'm available for those as well. So, with that I will thank you all very much for your attendance tonight and have a nice evening. Thank you.