 Lo tenemos en español, francés, alemán y inglés. Our language that are being interpreted are in Chinese, French, German, and of course in English. Ok, Chair Kwan, we turn this meeting over to you. We are set and ready to go. Thank you everyone for your patience. Estamos listos para comenzar en esta reunión. Gracias a todos por la paciencia. Thank you very much. This is my first attempt at chairing a meeting with a second language. I so appreciate our interpreter and our audience at large. When I stumble, I'll try and get better. So thank you very much. Donde yo tengo una reunión estoy teniendo de agradeciendo a todos con la paciencia que han tenido y estamos teniendo esta cita ahora con muchos idiomas. Tengo que recordarlo eso cuando estoy hablando con ustedes. With that I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Carol Kwan, current chair of the board of community services. Also joining us today are board members Carolina Spence, Steve Spillman, Pamela van Halsema, and Logan Pitts. Board members Terry Griffin and Madonna Cruz were unable to join us today. I'd like to also introduce our hosts Mary Lou Nichols and Emily Ander. Our hosts perform a very important function as they operate the presentation, manage the public comments, coordinate the interpretive services, and take notes for any follow-up meetings we may need. Emily, could you please tell the public how they can use the interpretive services and how they're handled during the meeting? Yes, I will after Saimara translate. I mean interprets what you just said. Okay, that was us. Okay, hay dos personas en la reunión que no están aquí presentes, pero creo que las demás que hemos estado presentes no pude escribir los hombres de las personas que están aquí que van a ser parte de nuestra reunión en esta tarde y ahorita la persona que va a hablar va a explicarnos cómo ustedes van a tener la oportunidad de escuchar lo que ustedes necesitan de escuchar por medio de su idioma nacional. Live Spanish Interpretation is available at tonight's meeting. Interpretation services are being provided by Alejandro and Saimara with the International Effectiveness Center. Live interpretation can be heard on the Spanish channel. You can join the Spanish channel by clicking on the interpretation icon that resembles a globe in the zoom toolbar on your screen. Once you join the Spanish channel, it is recommended that you silence the main audio so you can clearly hear the Spanish interpretation. Este programa va a ser programado y en vivo y se va a ser interpretado en diferentes idiomas por medio de interprets que vienen de ahí sí son interprets que en español, Saimara y Alejandro y como usted lo podría hacer es cuando usted ponga una click en el clavo donde está el lenguaje que quiere escuchar y por favor cuando usted haga eso ponga su micrófono en mute y se escribe MUT para que ustedes no puedan ser escuchados. Thank you Emily and Saimara. Panelists and presenters, please silence your cell phones and keep your microphones muted if you're not speaking. Members of the public joining this meeting will have their webcams off and microphones muted. If you're phoning in to join the meeting and you choose to comment on item three, the Roseland Creek Master Plan Park, which is why we're here today. For privacy concerns, the host will rename you to caller and only show the last four digits of your phone number. Additionally, please remember the city of Santa Rosa is committed to providing a safe and inclusive environment free from disruption and will not tolerate hateful speech or actions. Everyone is expected to participate respectfully or if necessary the meeting will end immediately. Madam host, will you please explain how public comments will be heard at today's meetings. Yes, thank you chair quant. There will be no public comment on non agenda items. At the time item three is presented, the chair will ask for board comments or questions and then at the appropriate time open the floor for public comment. The host will lower all hands until the public comments item is open. Once the chair has called for public comment, the chair will ask the public to raise their hands if they wish to speak on the agenda item. Those joining by phone may dial star nine to raise their hands. The host will then call on those who have raised their hands. Public comment is limited to three minutes and a courtesy timer will appear on the screen. After live public comments are concluded, the host will read email public comments. If you offered a live public comment and submitted an email public comment, the email comment will not be read. We ask those listening on the Spanish channel but wishing to make a public comment or ask a question to turn off or leave interpretation entirely at the time you hear your name called so you joined the main channel to make your public comment heard and translated into English. This icon may now look like a circle with an E S in the middle and the word Spanish underneath. You can then rejoin the Spanish channel at the conclusion of your comment to continue listening in Spanish. Thank you. And with that, I call this July 21st, 2021, special meeting of the Board of Community Services to order at 424 in the afternoon. I need to read the following disclaimer before we get into why we're here. Due to the provisions of the governor's executive order N2520 and N2920, which suspended certain requirements of the Brown Act and the order of the health office of the County of Sonoma to shelter in place to minimize the spread of COVID-19, the Board of Community Services members will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using Zoom. Board members and staff are participating from remote locations and are practicing appropriate social distancing. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda. That's the end of what I'm supposed to say. Now I'm going to say I can't wait to get back to real life. That being said, Madam Chair, Madam Host, can we have a roll call? Yes, please respond when I call your name. Chair Kwant. Here. Vice Chair Griffin. Board Member Spillman. Here. Board Member Pitts. Yes. Board Member Cruz. Board Member Spence. Here. And Board Member Van Helsima. Here. Let the record reflect that all board members are present with the exception of board members Griffin and Cruz. Thank you. Thank you so much. Before I turn the virtual floor over to Jen Santos for the presentation, I want everyone on the board to know that this is going to take a while. It's the first master plan review we've done in quite a while. I think it's the first one we've done virtually ever. If we need to take a break, we're going to take a break because we may be here for a while and we're all human. So bear with us. Jen's got a couple of places already in mind where the breaks would be appropriate. Long-term board members, please remember that we have a couple of new board members who have not done master plan reviews before. And Jen's going to present some information that you've heard before, maybe more than once. So we all need to be patient. And if she skips over something that the new board members aren't entirely familiar with, because we are trying to move the ball forward, don't hesitate when the time comes to ask for some clarification. All that being said, with this park, having so many distinct components, as you take notes or have questions or comments, I want to see if we can group everything together comment-wise by location. Starting at the north end of the park, we have the grasslands, then the woodlands, then the developed area. And then we have infrastructure, be it parking or curbs or bathrooms. Jen, this is much more your area of expertise than mine. But if we could keep things grouped, it might, it would definitely help me interpret better what we're trying to accomplish today. Because what we're trying to accomplish today is get a very important new park moving forward to city council in a timely fashion. And with that, Jen Santos, the floor is. Thank you, Chair Kwant, members of the Board of Community Services. I'm Jen Santos, Deputy Director for Parks. And as the chair mentioned, we do have a long presentation tonight, but it's a really important one as we move Rosalind Creek Community Park Master Plan forward to get to be built at some point in the near future, we hope. Next slide. So for those of you where Rosalind Creek Community Park might be a newer park for you or just as a reminder, Rosalind Creek Community Park is located in the southwest quadrant of the city. It's outlined in yellow on this map, if you can see it. But it's essentially south of Highway 12 and west of Highway 101. And it's generally in the middle of Rosalind. And of course, this is District 1, Council Member Alvarez, Alvarez District. And just by comparison, their park is outlined in green nearby, if you're curious there. Next slide. And so here's a little bit zoomed in view of Rosalind Creek Community Park. And I wanted to show this as a reminder to those of us to talk about where we've been with this park. The entire yellow outline is the park that goes all the way around. The four parcels, there are four parcels. The top two parcels and the lower parcel were all purchased back in 2011 from the Ag and Open Space District through a matching grant program. And we recently purchased in 2008. The part that says private property there is no longer private property. We do now own that as a city and the lot is contiguous. But I wanted to take us back just a few years before we did own all of this and take a look at it. Because as you look at the master plan going forward, all you're going to see is that complete outline of the park. But it was originally four parcels with housing. You can kind of see some of the infrastructure down below on the lower lot and at the upper lot. Housing in that area that's now been removed, all the above ground structures have been removed from the park. If you can see them there on the aerial, we just wanted to make you aware that it used to be housing and some agrarian uses and different uses over the last couple hundred years. Next slide. And so here is, here is the park as it's whole. And just to point out generally, the park in the northern section, which would be at the top of your slide is open grassy area with some remnant walnut trees and oaks. And you can see a heavily wooded area in the middle with oak, native oak trees. And in the lower part, we had some previous development there. And the blue line is Rosen Creek that runs through the park. And we have Rosen elementary school located. It'll be on the left side of this image, but essentially to just adjacent across street west of the park. The surrounding area is mostly single family homes. And we do also have a high degree of development permits coming into this area. We have hundreds of development permits for new residential areas, especially just below on the southern portion of this parcel. New applications for housing units with very small backyards to know backyards so we know there's a lot of development going on in Roslyn as it changes into a rule and single family residential area to something a little more developed. And also just to the right of this picture in the upper right is Chelsea a senior housing units, there's a lot of senior housing in there and those are apartments I wanted to point that out to you. Here since the 1800s, this has been used for different agricultural purposes. There used to be a dirt bike track in the middle. It's been, it's been a lot of uses, but mostly agrarian. All right, let's go into the next slide. So we want to talk about the ag and open space district. I'm not more I talked about how we acquired this land. It was through the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space, Space District. I am just going to call it ag and open space for brevity. The city did apply for and receive matching grants from the ag and open space district to acquire this land, and to also provide on the northern most section a trail that connects McMinn Street to Burbank Street so we're looking at east to west, and then across the street to Rosen Creek Elementary. Right now that undeveloped trail, you can see a picture of it in the bottom right there is used for students getting to and from school occasionally, and there is no crosswalk going across Burbank right now. And we cannot put a crosswalk in there to nothing on the other side so we need to have this master plan finished so that we can start to construct some of these improvements to help this community. But I did want to say so the matching grant program comes with an acquisition agreement that we assigned with the ag and open space district. The agreement there are conservation and recreational covenants. The conservation governments is essentially limit the type of improvements that we can have here. It's a negotiation between the ag and open space and the city, based on what is in the master plan and based on the ag and open space districts missions and what their goals and interests are. All the master plans are going to see have come into compliance with what the ag and open space is desiring we've been working with them all along so things have been changing over the years, and you'll see that but just to let you know generally they're looking at less impervious surface they would, they would like to see more pervious surface which a pervious surface is something that allows rainwater to filter through a surface so that's what they're looking at there. And more natural area versus complete development and the recreational covenant does keep this park as an active public park into perpetuity. And I mentioned the path that we have to go so so next slide please. This is a quick background on the, on the property. It is about 20 acres. It does, it is required to be a community park as part of the city's general 2035 general plan. We are conservation easements which require us to maintain the existing major natural features that are on site and anything we might discover. And we have an acquisition grant for that middle parcel we are still a negotiation for what that conservation easement looks like, but that's in progress. It does take into consideration information provided in the city wide creek master plan so it does comply with that plan. It also complies with the city wide bicycle and pedestrian master plan as well. As we do a new master plan for a park. There is a corresponding environmental analysis that's required to essentially analyze potential impacts to the environment from the planned development that is shown in the master plan. So that has been provided as well as part of this process. Next slide please. Too far I thought we should take a moment to talk about and remind ourselves what a community park is, what other community parks we have a community park is generally a larger park, it's 20 acres or more. And the community is expected to, to utilize it from a mile or more away. So there is an expectation that transit is needed to find your way to this park. For examples, for those of you around the community are familiar with some of our community parks, but may have not have realized it was a community park, a place to play, joel. Franklin, Galvan, power, Kauana Springs, Nagasawa, Northwest, Rincon Valley, and of course, Rosen Creek, Skyhawk, Southwest, and youth are all considered community parks. So those larger parks are not all the same type of park, but they do offer a place for folks to do something a little more active than maybe a neighborhood park. Other types of parks we have out there besides a community park for comparison is we also have a neighborhood park which is usually two to five acres and smaller, usually designed to meet the needs of a local area that of neighbors a half mile or less surrounding the park. We also have special purpose parks, trail parks, recreation centers, open spaces, public gathering areas, anything out there that you've seen that's one of our parks, they all have different terminology that's backing them. But hopefully that gives you some good insight into what we're looking at here at the Roseland as a community park, rather than a smaller neighborhood park. Next slide, please. So this is the bigger picture. It's, there's a lot going on here. Of, it's a map of the southwest area. Roseland is highlighted yellow in the middle of the map, Roseland Community Park. We have a variety of other parks around here that you can see in green. And so we have South Davis Park, their neighborhood park, Southwest Community Park, Bellevue Ranch neighborhood park, Parablasen, Airfield neighborhood park, Cook School Park, and Village Green neighborhood park. Just by comparison, some of the other lighter green areas are park lands of the city owns, which is undeveloped and not utilized as a park for the moment until we get more development happening. There are also a little green trees on this area, those are representative of future parks we have planned. First, off to the right, the yellow line going all the way down is Highway 101. And you can see a little bit of Highway 12 at the top of the map just to give you perspective of where we're at. Next slide, please. And so here's another way of looking at the same space. All of the green on the map, all of those little things are all parks that exist right now in the Southwest Quadrant, which includes Roseland, and Roseland is highlighted on this map. And you can see all of the red trees, the red trees are coming from the general plan. It's areas where we anticipate future parks to be located. And so if you look at this map, it's really telling where you look at Roseland, Southwest Community Park, those are the only two community parks in this area. We don't have one more community park planned, we don't own any land yet, but there is a, there is a tree that says next to airfield. And so there's one more community park planned in this area. A lot of the comments will hear is that I've heard over the time over the years is. This map does a good job of visually representing where, in comparison, the community parks are, and where our planned community parks are for this entire quadrant. This is a really good image to keep in mind. When you're considering what the neighbors around these areas are going to have to use for their community space as Roseland dress into higher use in the future, as we look to 2050 into the future general plan. So we are actively looking at places to include more neighborhood parks, and our one community park that is planned as well. So just that's a big picture. And sometimes it's helpful when you're thinking of one particular park. Hopefully that's helpful for you all. Next slide, please. And then this is an important slide to kind of look at the definition of a community park. On the left of this is our existing conditions so the population, we still are looking at the 2010 census, and until the recent up until we get the recent update, but 27,162. People living in documented living in Roseland, and it's about 7.7 people per acre in the quadrant. And the average for the requirement for the every the area for park acres per 1000 people is about 2.4 in Roseland, which is definitely under park compared to other areas of the city. And that's a direct result of lack of development because new parks follow new houses. When there's development, that's where new parks go. And if you look around the city, a lot of the other city, a lot of cities already developed. So as we see more development in Roseland, we will also see more parks. As I mentioned before, we have two community parks and seven neighborhood parks. Those are the 2035 general plan projections. So the population is expected to grow a little bit to 28,466, likely to go a lot higher than that, but that was projection at the time. And people per acre expected are 8.1. And then the park acres per 1000 is 3.9. And we do anticipate having three community parks. But we also anticipate having 15 neighborhood parks total and right now we have seven. So we have a ways to go in this area, we do need more parks in Roseland. And just by way of comparison, the general plan standard is three and a half acres of city parks per 1000 residents. The other thing we'd like to talk about tonight is what is a master plan? What are we doing tonight? What are we approving and what should we be looking for? And so we wanted to include some examples of more recent master plans that have been approved for your reference. A master plan is a graphic representation of the community's desires and what they would like to have built and improved in their parkland. And so all of these master plans have gone through the same thing that Roseland is going through. They've met with community members to find out what they would like. And then we have worked with designers and consultants to develop possible options for what could be at these parks. For example, at the very top, the Kiwata Springs Community Park. This was completed back in 2017. The same path that Roseland has been on and is done and we are now working on some development of the community garden going forward. This community had struggles. They don't all agree like most master plans. Not everybody in the community agreed on what they would like, but we came to a consensus. And when I say we, the community, the community came to consensus on what they would like. And this is a graphic representation. The park is on the lower right hand side of the screen and a place to play community park is on the left, for example. These are graphics, they are not construction documents. So the difference would be that we, we know, for instance, at Bear Park that we would like a lawn here. It may not be exactly here, it might just be a little bit off, but this is the general area where we want lawn. Or a place to play when you look at a place to play, you can see all these soccer fields and baseball fields that are planned. And so this graphic represents what we would like to see here. It's not necessarily that every picnic, every picnic table and bench is going to be identified or drinking fountain. It's the general intent of what we would like and where generally we would like it. Sometimes things get moved as we go closer to construction and discover things as we get closer to construction. But hopefully this gives you a big, a big picture. It's, it's a concept of graphically what we would want. It's the big picture, literally, of the things we want. So next slide please. Rosalind Community Park. All the outreach that we have done in the community started long before my time here at the city. And in 2009 community engagement with Rosalind started to have conversations with the neighbors about what they would like to see for this property. And I know that many more neighbors have been involved in actively trying to push the city to acquire these parcels long before this as well. In 2009, and into 2010, there were five workshops held by the city with the community to solicit feedback on what their interests were for the master plan. And this plan went before the Board of Community Services in 2010. So between 2010 and 2015 there wasn't any work, there weren't, there wasn't enough staffing or there weren't any planners here to finish this work. I started with the city in 2015, and we started this project back up again to see what the community would like and verify that this plan from 2010 was still what the community desired. En 2015, we went to the Board of Community Services after four workshops again and with the community to get feedback from the community on what they want, if they wanted any changes, anything else. And we went to the Board of Community Services in July 2015. We're seeing some feedback, came back to the Board of Community Services in 2015 again. We were continuing to move forward, but recognizing that we still needed to do a little bit more work to collect some of the data and some of the feedback we had seen from the 2010 earlier workshops where there's a variety of input. So we had another workshop with the community in September 16, 2017. And we also attended the Rosenby National Health Fair to collect community feedback at that health fair on how they would, what amenities they would like to see in their master plan. And from there we had another workshop in December of 2017, while we further refined the master plan, and got more into the details of what folks would want. At that point we were ready to return to the Board of Community Services again in February 2018. And with some small changes we returned back again in March of 2018, and the Board of Community Services recommended that plan at that time to be approved by City Council in 2018. Next slide, please. And so after that once the Board of Community Services was satisfied with the plan, we started the environmental review process, which takes a while, it takes a year or so to get that process going. We had already done a lot of environmental studies, but we had to complete the environmental report at the time. With that, the master plan went a little bit on hold where we're looking at and analyzing the environmental potential impacts from the plan. We also as staff went, kept going out to meet with people and to keep engaging with folks and understand, were we still on the right track, do we need to add any more changes to the master plan, is there anything else we need to do. So we continued in 2019, so in the upper part of this, it's just a recap of all the meetings from 2009 to 2018 that I just went through. And so the 2019 meetings, we went to Sheppard Elementary, we had some targeted meeting with folks at Sheppard Elementary, Rosalind Prep High School. Rosalind Cinco de Mayo and collected feedback. We also met with the senior citizens at Chelsea Gardens, which is right across the street from the park. We also attended a Southwest Santa Rosa Healthy Action meeting. And we also, you can see this image had a land pass, attended the land pass garden celebration at Bear Park, which is not too far from Rosalind. And so we were really just trying to get some targeted feedback. That was also the, another reason we were doing that is because we were looking at potential to apply for a grant for future improvements. And the state is looking at a model where targeted meetings, rather than this general call out for everyone to attend a meeting. So instead we're going to meetings at Sheppard Elementary, at Rosalind Prep High School. We're attending other meetings that can target folks that may not traditionally attend meetings, but still have their opinions are important to us. So we recognize that around the same time as the state, as the state requirements for having targeted meetings versus having a big bulky meeting, which we've had many, many of those meetings, as you can see from the previous slides. So let's go to the next slide please. And so this is, this is essentially the strategies we use to outreach. We did our direct mailing postcards to everybody in the quadrant that had a mailing address, including residents, not just property owners. We sent E blast to residents who attended any Rosalind meeting in the past, and who opted to subscribe to get notifications. E blasted to our neighborhood services contact list we do have a lot of neighborhood services programs in Rosalind. And this is a fantastic way to outreach to those parents and attendees of their services programs. We had lots of notifications, advisories to local media, we had lots of media posts. We also had a Facebook event page on the Santa Rosa Recreation of Parks Community Engagement Facebook page. We featured many times in the Rec and Parks e-news letter. News flashes on Santa Rosa Rec.com and SRCity.org. Lots of anytime we're doing anything we always put our information out there. Social media posts, including next door Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. We have a number of listings for meetings to our local media outlets. And on some occasions we've distributed flyers as a, as a method, as a mechanism for getting folks to attend our meetings and participate during our online surveys if they couldn't attend an on-site meeting. This is all pre-COVID of course. Of course we had multiple 20 plus on-site meetings with different folks. So you can see an image of Rosalind Creek Prep School on the bottom and we were also at a neighborhood services program event on the top slide image there. Next slide. And so before we get started on this, I also wanted to recognize that a lot of those things we did. We're not just one-time events. We did a lot of those things every time we did anything in the community, anytime we wanted any sort of community feedback. Those were the steps that we took. And so I know this is going to be a repeat for those of you on the board that have already seen this. And it's important, I think at this point, since we do have new board members to take a step back and look at that 2010 master plan that went to the board of community services with the intention of becoming the master plan in the future. We had some attrition and different people moved on so we didn't have anybody working on this for a while. But I'm just going to walk you through this plan. And then subsequent plans I show you, we'll just talk about the changes. So this plan is anything in colorful stuff, any colorful items you see here is the park. It's bordered of course by Burbank on the left here and McMinn on the right. And it calls for native oak tree plantings at what would be the very top of the park or the northern part of the park and open grasslands area. There are trails throughout the park with little expanded entry node areas for pedestrians. There are these blue things in here are called for constructed vernal pools. And a vernal pool is maybe a very similar to a wetland, very unscientific of me but having been a vernal pool and a wetland manager. There's a little bit of a difference it's it's got a little bit more species diversity from. That's how I'm going to describe it tonight. So through the plan there. There was a call for an existing drainage to be there and a proposed sidewalk. The area in pink rose color here is Roseland Elementary School. And there's also trails that are unpaved in the middle of the area here there's a little x. The parking area identified in the middle of the site, and a little white box is a nature center, and then the parking area is adjacent to it with a drop off zone in the middle. And then as we move to the to the bottom you can see the creek is outlined in darker green running through the through the site. The purple circles are picnic areas, the purple circles on there are playground areas and there's a tiny white box down in the bottom left that is the, the restroom area. And so, you know, keep in mind this is 20 acres. So if you look at something like a restroom building it's just going to really be a dot at this point. The other thing is multi use turf area out here on the very lower half of the, the plan. And by that we just mean lawn. Sometimes we get a little bit, we go anxious about multi use turf area just a lawn so that people could have a picnic out there. As you move over to the lower right of the plan there is a yellow circle here and another yellow circle, just below it. Those are called Palmo interpretive village. And again the red is a picnic area. There's a larger blue area in the middle of the slide, and that is designated as a creek. Let's see creek boardwalk and overlook. And a constructed wetland near the creek. And in the purple area just adjacent to that, that is, if you've driven on McMahon at all, there's an overpass and the creek is piped underneath it. That is owned by the Sonoma County Water Agency, and they manage that area, it's open in the purple area and it goes under McMahon under the bridge. There are also calls for interpreted interpretive elements like maybe signage or something else similar. And all of the brown areas in here, moving throughout the site are considered trails. So this was the idea and this this is the culmination of a year's worth of outreach to the community to find out what their interests were and this really represented everything. And this is what this was all done before my time here with the city, so we had to rely on notes and citizens to help us understand what the intent was here when we picked it back up in 2015. So let's look at the next version of the master plan. Next slide please. So we no longer have the same fabulous consultants aboard. And this was a staff produced plan. It's the same same part, but you might see similar outlines. So the things, the things that are a little bit different here with this plan versus the other one are that you'll see that the vernal pools and the constructed wetlands are not included in this plan. At this time there had not been any environmental review of this park. So it was not known whether those things were there or not. And so we're only showing things here that we are looking at and implementing that are recreational in nature until the environmental analysis was complete. But otherwise the plan is, is, is relatively similar. We tried to use very similar colors. But again, we did, we did not have our consultant, but we still have the nature center, the parking lot, the drop off zone, the orange areas are trails. The blue line through the middle is Rosen Creek. And of course you have Burbank on the left and McMinn on the right. And we still have our multi use turf area, the Palmo Interpretive Village was right there. One of the things we were reaching out to native tribal nations to understand what their interest was and what they would want to see there but we didn't quite know at this time so we left the note in. And there was also at the time request for a dog park. So this little brown thing here was a dog park that was added to the middle of the park. It looks like a little C. And then we also have the interpretive elements, little purple dots throughout the plan which would be interpretive signage and elements along the pathway. We also had un paved trails in here as well as planting along the northern edge so a lot of similarities I think the only thing a little bit different was the addition of a dog park at that point. And this plan I know at the time the Board of Community Services have been hearing a lot from neighbors who want dog parks all over the city. And this was one of the things that was mentioned when we collected feedback and so it was considered and added to the plan at this time. Let's go to the next version of the master plan the next slide. So at this point we were able to hire consultants again, we do a much better job of representing graphically what the interests were of the of the community. And we as this is still after 20 different meetings very targeted meetings tons of outreach to find out what the community is interested in seeing in the park. So why the graphics look different. The general idea of it is very similar. So you see in Brown, a lot of the trails throughout the park with the bridges over the creek that's been in every single iteration because we got have to get folks over the creek. Also this thing that kind of looks like a snake a striped line that runs through the through the park. We added that graphically to help folks identify where the shared path was where you share bicycle and pedestrian news. And again we work with the bicycle and pedestrian folks staff here to make sure that that is in keeping in line with what their expectations were for that for that by path in there. We also started the environmental analysis and there was an emphasis that these little green dots in the plan might be wetlands. And that's something we were hearing from citizens so we included them that the environmental consultation had not occurred complete was not complete yet. The northern section, and if I failed to mention this has always been existing grassland to remain as is in all of the iterations. We also have some little orange symbols for interpretive signage and we added fitness stations in here. There's a concept in parks where you add small just one unit fitness stations with a bicycle or arm lifting or something. So that there's this encouragement to use the trail and stop and have a little bit heavier exercise and keep on going. And so we included that at the time. We saw the nature center in the parking area, the drop off area was removed because that would, we would have to remove the significant amount of trees to make that happen. And in speaking with our traffic engineers, we really want to focus the drop off for schools at the school versus encouraging drop off to happen at the, at the park. Let's see the other thing we discovered here that's a little bit different the last time is in the about environmental evaluation, thus far we discovered that there was existing purple needle grass. On site, and it's a special status as species, of course, we're really excited to find that and so we instantly protected that area and kept any sort of development or anything, anything to do with that area. And picnics or anything out of that area, but we still want to celebrate it with interpretive educational signage and educate folks as they come there, what they're looking at and why it's important. At this time to we have added the sports court because we were receiving a lot of feedback from the community that they wanted an active use area for for teams and older adults. This could be basketball, it could be bachi, there's all kinds of sport chords, it could be tennis, pickleball, whatever, we didn't want to limit ourselves by identifying one type of sport. Because at the time that this might get implemented in the future, there might be some new fantastic sport court that would be better served, and we can go out to the community at that time, and collect feedback on on what might be appropriate. So whatever hearing at the time basketball was definitely a highly requested item. We also identified group picnicking with barbecues and nature themed play area, and we highlighted the picnic area here in the middle, and we also highlighted the outdoor classroom, which has been a part of each plan thus far. We also looked at potential for a community garden in this area. The former owners of this plot had been using this area in the last few years as a garden, and it's a natural fit for that and it's certainly something that is highly requested. Everywhere across the city is we just don't seem to have enough community gardens so there's the option for having that in there, or outdoor classroom. This is the plan that was approved by the Board of Community Services in 2018. This is where we're at at that time we had done a lot of work to get to this point, and this was our launching point to go into the full environmental analysis, which we anticipated taking six months to a year to complete. So this is where the plan in 2018 stopped after the Board of Community Services recommended approval to City Council. So we had to take a pause and asked to be asked for the environmental review to to happen. Let's go to the next slide. So we took that same plan that we had completed in 2018 and modified it to adapt any, anything new we had heard, because we kept meeting with the community, and anything that the ag and open space was asking us to modify. And we also modified the graphics because we heard at the Board of Community Services in 2018, and from citizens that there was, when they looked at those yellow blobs they were thinking those were concrete. And in our minds are just thinking, you know, that's just an area where we'd like to see picnicking, something you'd see at Howard Park where you've got some picnic areas on native soil and ADA access with some concrete or something out to one of those picnic tables. So we can have ADA compliance as needed. So again this plan sticks very close to what's been moving forward all these years. The northern part of the plan is existing grassland to remain. We've got the trails throughout some of the pave. Some of them not. We do have to provide equal access to meet the ADA compliance. And so if you have a unique feature we need to make sure that there is a surface there that is compliant with ADA codes. But otherwise other trails, not every trail has to be paid. So we also consider using boardwalk material for some of these. Again, none of those decisions are being made at the master plan level, the master plan level. Again, it's just, this is what we want, and this is where we want it. So again you see that multi use trail that goes all the way through for bicycles and pedestrians, the nature center parking center there's also, we put in a fire truck turnaround because the fire trucks with will need to come in and turn around. We still have the outdoor classroom slash community garden. We still also have our interpretive signage throughout the throughout the park so that we can interpret what folks are seeing and educate folks and inform everybody of what they are seeing and what the rules are to. Notice in this one though the fitness stations have all been removed from the upper portion of the park to keep it more quiet and natural and they've been moved down to the lower half of the park. So there's a, there's less fitness stations but enough so that if you wanted a little bit of fitness you could have that in the lower more developed sections. It's called multi use turf here but again we just mean lawn irrigated lawn so that can be used for picnicking or kicking a ball around. It's about the same size of the lawn and bear it's very small. This is, you definitely could not have sports games or anything like that here at all, there will be no practices at all. It's, it's just a nice area where if you want to do yoga, if you want to do, I heard zoom with classes different things this is where you could do it. There's also inclusion of a group picnic area, barbecue, kind of shade structuring thing here. The sports court was combined to be part of the fire trip turnaround which would only be needed if the fire tricks needed to access it so we could save and save on space there and and combine those things. The restroom is there. Things were put in to scale within reason again, when you get to this 20 acre site, a restroom does look pretty small at that site. The nature center with 19 parking spaces the nature center wasn't envisioned as either a closed in fully functional nature center which would be a deal or maybe an outdoor shade shelter a kind of open space area where folks could gather or anything that you know if you say they say if you build it they will come, the nature center could be one of those things but it's just a shade shelter we could have, we could partner with schools and other folks interested in teaching nature to students and having activities there. The purple needle grass saved, and try to think of what else is in there of course frozen creek is in there, and the area to the lower right next to the purple needle grass, I will say that areas identified in the conservation easement those are oak trees, and they are older oak trees so they're oak trees and we want to preserve those so we will see very little development in there except a trail to get near a little bit nearby but out of the drip zone out of the canopy of the of the oak woodlands, and those are to be protected and maintained and there's IV in there so we constantly go in there and remove the IV, which is an invasive species. The center of the of the park with the oak woodlands is to remain generally as you see it, there are no chains of changes anticipated. I think those are those are the big, those are the big things. I hope I have covered everything the other thing I wanted to mention was there was a request for hydration station so that somewhere you take your water bottle and fill it up. It's not really too small to put into a master plan so we listed it in the notes. And we also clarified that the picnic tables, some will be on woodchips, others on concrete just so we can meet our compliance. But the idea is that most of this park is generally kept in a natural state, we're preserving was there celebrating it. And also interpreting what is there and why is purple need of glass important, why is the creek important, those things were really important to the community, and they are there. There's still a picnic area in the middle of the site, sort of right of the nature center. But we changed the graphic to represent what we mean, we definitely don't mean concrete everywhere, we just mean picnic tables here and there, so that that could happen. And with that, before we go to the next slide, I'm going to check in with the chair to see if we need a break or we can continue going and I can check in with you later. So, I'm good, Jen, you're about halfway through the presentation, which would be the end of presentation would be the next opportunity for a break, would you concur with that Jen. Yes. Yes, we're about halfway through. So, raise your hand if you'd like a five minute time out, or if you're good for another 40 minutes. So, I think we're going to take a five minute break. Carolina, five minutes work. Caner glass to be quick. So, my clock says five 15 see everybody back at 520. Thank you. Cool. So, Jen. Yes, I went out to Legenda this afternoon. Oh, fantastic. I have never seen as many cities Santa Rosa trucks in one place before in my life. Well, that sounds good. hoping staff can let me know when it's time for us to continue. Yes one moment, please. Okay, I believe we're ready to go. Jen, back to you. Thank you, Chair Quant. Okay, and so here we are again. We could stay on the side for just a minute, and I just wanted to point out some of the other things that Bernal pools and wetlands are removed from this plan at this time. We had had that time to conduct the environmental analysis, and as determined, there were no Bernal pools or wetlands on site and therefore constructing and improving more of that is not included in this plan because the environmental review, because of the environmental review showed us that there wasn't anything on site. But we did learn and we got conclusive report that the purple needle grass was there which was really exciting to learn. So we're excited to have that feature in the park and be able to celebrate it. But I just wanted to clarify that I realized I hadn't talked about that one yet either. So let's go to the next slide. We've talked about the, we looked at the graphics for the master plan. Let's talk about what we heard from the community between 2009 and 2019. So all of those iterations are a lot more iterations of the master plan than what we were showing here tonight. We wanted to give you a general look at how things have been modified. It hasn't been greatly modified. It's generally staying very much the same since 2009. There's been some movement in certain things and some additions and some subtractions, but generally overall it's staying the same. But of all the, all of the input we have received from 2009 to 2019. There's a really clear distinction of residents who are a vocal group and they very much would like this park to stay a natural state with little to no development except for trails, a nature center and of course it's associated parking slash restroom. And then all the other community comments we heard are generally asking for lawn, playgrounds, group picnic sites, regular picnic sites. There's been requests for a dog park, a punk track. A punk track is a motion produced group of dirt hills where you can use your momentum to ride a bicycle around a dirt track. Or if it doesn't have to be dirt, it can be any material. Community garden, restrooms, parking of course, trails, fitness equipment, basketball, barbecues and an outdoor sink in a team center are things we've heard from the community as well as the group of residents who wish it to be a natural state. Let's look a little bit more on the next slide. We wanted to also let you know that there's been requests for a lot of development such as a bicycle velodrome, a veteran center, regulation soccer fields, full regulate and baseball fields. And then of course on the other side, requests for absolutely no development don't touch it kind of thing. So we really hit the gamut like we do with a lot of our master plans. We have a lot of really great ideas from the community and what they'd like to see with their park. So we also recognize at that time that we are wanting to protect the environment that we have there, which is the purple needle grass and the woodlands. Those are special to us. It's a beautiful place. We want to protect that and that master plan does just that. It does protect those special spaces. The master plan is if you looked at it, it's generally green. Most of it is natural and left as is, but we do have some trails and some higher activities in the southern portion of the site. Those activities are located in places where there used to be housing or some other disturbed site. So we're not really proposing a lot of huge new development or anything like that outside of the areas that were already disturbed in those in the master plan. We do have the trails and if you walk out there, there are rural trails, but if we want everybody to be able to enjoy the park, we also have to develop some trails that are compliant for folks that need that. So the master plans you've seen have all represented all the comments you've received from a wide variety of the community, 20 plus public meetings, more than eight updates to the draft plan. It's just been continual updating and meeting with the community and making sure we've gotten it right. That's what's been happening between 2009 and 2019. So I wanted to recap that rather than go over all of that, why we were looking at the master plan, but we've done a tremendous amount of outreach. We do have a lot of vocal interest in the community and for a wide variety of things, which is very common for a lot of master plans. So let's go on to the next slide and look at the environmental study. So just just to give you a little touch base on the environmental study. So we started that in 2018 and 2019, started finishing up that process. And the initial study is a study that looks at all the potential for what's in the master plan to impact resources such as aesthetics, agriculture and forestry, air quality, biological resources, cultural, geology, soils, etc. including housing and gas emissions, greenhouse gas emissions and transportation and traffic impacts. It covers a wide variety of things. So we look at what we have planned and how it compares to an evaluation of those resources. Next slide, please. Our consultant originally identified as part of the master plan, potentially 89 trees to be removed as part of the master plan implementation and 270 trees that required some pruning. And we worked really hard with our with our biologist and arborist to restructure the trail. We got really down into the trees because those that where the trail goes through the trees, it's really tricky. When you think of having a multipurpose trail for pedestrians and bicycles, you're thinking of an eight foot wide trail itself. And then you've got shoulders on the side, you know, a space that's open about two feet for safety. So it's a pretty big swath of land. So we looked at boardwalks and splitting the bicycle and pedestrian trails in certain places so that we could really have the most minimal impact to that area. And so what we did after after months of trying to reduce it down, we did get it down to impacts to four trees. These are very small trees, but still the smallest tree is still an impact. And so there's four trees proposed to be removed and 18 trees requiring some pruning in order to have that trail be a safe space for people to travel on. So that was a huge win. We were really worried that we were not going to be a lot of trail through there. Also, the biologists determined that the California Tiger Salamander, although it's not likely to be seen at this site because it is a listed species and it has been seen in the general area of the Southwest community. It does have to be mitigated for even if it's not found on site. So that's included in those biological in the environmental study. And for those things like that for Tiger Salamander and some other smaller species that may not exist at the site, but they exist in the general area, there is a state requirement to mitigate for those. So when we improve trails and things like that, whatever that square footage is, we will find a space to preserve forever and mitigate those species. There's other ways of mitigating by what we did by moving the trail. We mitigated the destruction of all those trees by moving the trail and working hard to relocate it. As I mentioned before, we did not find any wetlands identified on site. We did, however, find and confirm the purple meat of grass. And of course, the oak woodlands, which will be preserved. And like any project, any construction that's over an acre is going to require cultural services resources to be monitored when we do any digging to put those trails in. We'll have those that project monitored for potential for cultural resources. Hopefully that gives you an overview. Next slide. And with that, so as as we started to take that recommendation from the Board of Community Services and move forward with it to council, we have to go with our it's a report essentially on all the environmental potential impacts and any mitigation. And it's called a mitigated negative declaration. And we take that to council with the master plan and ask for approval at the same time. And in fact, actually, the negative declaration gets approved technically first by council, then the master plan. And so again, it essentially concludes that what we are planning here, improving this park is going to be mitigated to less than a significant level through mitigation measures and by complying with our existing codes we have in place that predict the park site and future construction of it. And then I mentioned that the council has to approve it. And so as we go forward, this same mitigated negative declaration with an amendment will be brought back forth to council when we're ready to go back to council. So next slide. And so we wanted to touch base on the work we've been doing with our tribal nations related to this plan. Back in 2017, I met with the great and Rancheria folks who claim historical ancestry on this parkland and showed to them the master plan that had been developed and asked them what their interpretation was, what they would like to see, how much they would like to be involved or not and really would like to about their feedback. The federated Indians of Graton as requested that the Pomo village and Pomo theme be removed, as shown on the earlier versions of the master plan, that they would not necessarily be in favor of those things being on the plan. So they were removed. Rancheria also requested, they pointed it out to me as fire, water, elder access, identification, tree species, things like that. But what they reminded me of this means places where we can have a picnic and have a barbecue, water. So they requested an outdoor sink. And if you've been to bear, we have one of these as well so that it was put into the near the community garden so that people would wash their vegetables and have a snack. They asked for picnicking. They asked for parking for their elder access so they could get close to where the picnicking was. They also asked for proximity to restrooms and an identification sheet of all the native tree species. So if they had some sort of ceremony or anything like that that they could work with the tree species that were on site. And we also have sent to them updates. Every time we have an update of a master plan we send it to Greaton Rancheria as well. This is a tribe that has requested of the city to be notified for any sort of improvements. Every year the planning and economic development team I think it's every year over two years they reach out to our local tribal nations to find out which tribal nations would like to be notified of any sort of anything we might do and any of our public lands. We also reached out to the Greaton Rancheria and we have not received any, they didn't have any plan comments. We did receive from them that they did not have any comments on the plan. We keep sending it to them as well just in case there's a change in design. There is also a request from a local person claiming he was part of the Dry Creek Palma Rancheria. When I met with him he did say that he was not the official representative of this tribe and that I should contact them he would very much like this Palma Village and wanted to see it there. And so we contacted the Dry Creek Palma Rancheria several times and we received no reply. So I wanted to give you an idea of what we've done and the outreach we do and we will continue to outreach to all the tribal nations that desire to work with us as we go forward. Next slide please. And so as a recap, so the master plan with the environmental document finally went to the city council, the one approved back in 2018 by the Board of Community Services finally went to council on January 12th, 2020. That was a complete representation of everything we had received from all over the community, all of our environmental updates and any request from the ag and open space to make any changes to the plan. We presented the plan of course on the environmental documents and council received at that meeting at council received a community group park plan. They received another plan from a citizen and they asked that the staff use that plan and conduct a follow-up meeting with the community. And so on March 4th, 2020 we went back out to the community at Cook Middle School and I utilized this group, this plan presented by a citizen. They call themselves the neighborhood group. They presented their plan. The city also had the planning and economic development. Team present pending and future development in the city especially in Roseland. We had the transportation folks presenting our bus routes and bicycle plans for the Southwest. And of course our recreation parks team was there looking at park adjacencies and sample master plan graphics. And then the plan from January 12th, 2020 meeting was presented again as a reference. And so what I want to do is take a look now at those two plans. And I have them on two different slides because they would be so small if we tried to look at them next to each other. So let's go to the next slide. And so this is what was presented at council as a, you'll see the Rosland Creek Neighborhood Preserve. And so what I'm going to do is I'm going to start on the left and do my best to interpret what we saw that evening. On the left it's calling for six to seven foot tall native shrubs to screen adjacent residential. It's calling for constructed seasonal wetlands. Those are the little circles there. An 88 path across the park connecting McMinn which would be on the far right to Burbank Avenue on the far left of the page. It identifies a drainage swale that is there and being constructed as well. There's a little white dot kind of in the middle or a box that is identified as a greenhouse nursery. You, and just to let you know, on site there had been a greenhouse nursery, a small greenhouse that was already there from the existing residential, but it was in really bad shape and continually being vandalized over and over again. So it was removed along with some of the other buildings and outbuildings that were throughout that site. Of course, the nature center, the larger white box there to the left and the parking with 12 spaces and a vehicular gate. It identifies the two bridges over the creek for pedestrians. There's also a natural interpretative children's play area. There's no graphic with it that there's a note and a small picnic area, two tables, no paving is identified as well by note. And it's, the note is leading to the southern portion of the plan. There's a, the bike path is identified as similar as other plans. And there's an emergency vehicle access with no parking and fire truck turnaround and a vehicular gate at the southern end, most southern end of the plan. And going on to the other notes, they've included the purple needle grass, which is the purple graphic. They've also included upland habitat restoration instead of lawn in the southern portion. And there is an identification of a potential future connection on the Sonoma County water agencies going off to the Sonoma County water agencies land adjacent to the creek. There, of course, the pedestrian bridge and there is a call for repairing restoration. So repairing means adjacent to the creek, those areas that could be wet near the creek in rain events and things like that. There's a call for the outdoor classroom. And the Oaklandland is identified as juvenile Oakland restoration area. And of course the bike path is identified again the sidewalk on McMinn and the upper portion of the plan is listed as upland habitat restoration. And so we just wanted to go over that. That is something that is near and dear to the neighborhood group. They are a very vocal group and this has been the group that has been here all along. They attend every meeting and they're very persistent and interested in looking at this park. I would say, I know this is my interpretation as a preserve and they do call it that with very little development. And so hopefully that answers that we can always come back to this later. And let's look at the other, the last master plan that went to the Board of Community Services and Council, next slide, please. So on this one, the thing that struck all of us about looking at that other plan and this one is really how similar they are. I mean, graphically, they look different for sure. But there's a lot of similarities and it looks like we've had some issues here graphically at least on my screen with somebody's notes. So I'm gonna read them out. But again, we have the upper area up here and we were able to add in there existing grassland to remain or and or to be restored. So this is something that's a huge undertaking on the city and there's a lot of labor involved in keeping a grassland area restored into a native grassland area. However, we could work with partners that are interested in restoring that. That would be fantastic. So that is an area, we clarified that note that of course this area could be restored to a native, more native looking grassland with assistance from community partners or it can remain as is as a grassland. And then the existing woodland Oakland to remain as is of course we would, the city would manage that Oakland to be a healthy Oakland and work with the Ag and Open Space who has already asked us to make sure we're trimming and doing certain things inside this Oakland to keep it healthy. And we are doing that. So there would be a restorative process there but generally remain as is to keep it healthy and an Oakland for hundreds of years into the future. Let's see, the other thing we clarified on this plan was the creek. One of the things I haven't mentioned because I wanted to mention it here was the creek that runs through Roseland is identified as part of the citywide creek master plan. So there was already a master plan that designates this creek to be restored. So a lot of the previous versions of the master plan don't have a lot of information about what is happening with the creek because all of that information is listed in the creek master plan. And there's a full description of this portion of the creek to be restored. And so those two plans, this plan and that plan work in concert with each other but we don't wanna duplicate efforts and we certainly want to refer to the experts that are putting together our creek restoration plans. So we added that note to say, we're referring to this citywide creek master plan for information regarding the creek including its restoration. If any of you have been to the site previous owners have installed concrete at the base of the creek in some portions and there's a lot of improvement, development debris and things like that. So we are working on getting loose debris up that certainly want to work with our water department staff and others that are local, our internal biologists that are working on what that restoration would look like. And so we defer to that plan on there. So that was a change to try to clarify that to say that we do want it restored we just want to make sure that the restoration note stay with the other plan. Let's see, we also both plans look at trails throughout with a variety of ADA compliant pathways as well as trails left as is. Some of them might be boardwalks, we really don't know, this is not really the master plan we don't get into the nitty-gritty details of what type of material we know that we want most of those trails to be permeable so rain will fall through them and groundwater can be recharged in that sense. I think that the differences here might be easier to point out some of the differences because there's a lot of similarities the differences between the neighborhood groups plan is on the southern portion of this plan there is not just emergency vehicle access there's also some parking included in there. There's also the sport court and lawn area. So this is something we've heard a lot from the communities they want a place to play and run around. And so it's really important that it is a space that can be mowed and level so we don't get sprained ankles. And so it needs to be something that is lawn. There are species and types of lawn that use much less water. There are irrigation systems that are amazing and they work underground or experimenting with some of those and how it's parked right now. So there's ways we can have lawn going into the future but we know that this is something that's highly desired by the community. The other thing that's different is there the neighborhood plan did not include a community garden it only included the outdoor classroom portion of that and it had just a few less parking spaces for the nature center than are referenced in this plan here. And I think those are the big those are the big changes that I am noting from this plan on here and we don't have a greenhouse located in here it's such a small item because the existing greenhouse no longer is there. We had to remove it due to heavy vandalism. The other thing is we don't really include the drainage ditch along here but we're not proposing to do any sort of grading in this area we're proposing to put in a split rail fence along Burbank Avenue to guide school youth that are attending Rosalind Creek Elementary and crossing on the crosswalk midway there's a little dash line midway through the through the Burbank Avenue we moved the crosswalk down a little bit from the very first plan that showed it near the near the top of the school and we did that because after speaking with the city's traffic engineer there was a recognition that if we have students crossing higher up through the northern part of the school then they will have to cross vehicles turning into the school again. So the idea was to move the crosswalk down so students are only crossing once they're only crossing Burbank once and only crossing traffic once. So that's something I wanted to identify there but there's a lot of similarities there's a lot of similarities that the children's play area is on here maybe a little more robust than the last plan but there still is an identification for a place for children to play. We do look at vehicular gates on these areas so that we don't have folks driving in here at night. So there's a gate. We do have gates at many of our parks and they operate the very the same way. So I think those are the main the main differences the lawn and the no Sportcourt and the other one as well as no barbecues or anything like that. It's mostly just a couple of picnic tables on the southern section. And I think those are the those are the differences but what again what struck me was the amazing similarities that we have in this. So we wanted to take into consideration everything we had heard at that March 4th 2020 meeting and I'll go ahead and read you some of the things we received that night next will go to the next slide. And these the information we received at this at this meeting was similar, almost identical to all of the information we've received up to the state from the community. It may not represent the neighborhood group entirely but this is this is everybody in the community that we're hearing from. So we heard listen to multiple needs and generational perspectives. So we took all of these things from folks that actually handwritten in what they desired. One of them was please keep Rose and Park as natural as possible. We don't want that many parking lots. The other one was the children in our community need more places to play. We need courts, playgrounds and larger picnic areas. Please leave the preserve natural. No pavement, no fitness station, no sport court, no shade structures, no structures except restrooms and a nature center. The next one was balance the naturalist with the. I think we couldn't identify the word there. So we put an X and the sports minded. There is enough room for all of that. Not one intrusion dominate the others. There is enough room. And the next one was full basket court. Just opposed to I want more nature. Please hurry the process. It's already been 10 years. Nature Park, no amenities. Others that say facilities to play basketball and soccer. This area needs an active park and natural space. And we also heard a park that needs both needs nature and community. So we just I think sometimes these kind of quotes speak volumes to. A long list of things we heard. These were the general things we heard that evening, as well as in all of the. Data that we collected after that evening. So let's go to the next slide, please. And we have had the fortune to have the rosin area district it at the council level. So we were so happy to be working with council member Alvarez and meeting with him to discuss Rosin Creek Community Park and the master planning process and strategize about how to move forward and what was possible. The council member. I would say developed or attended. Listening sessions developed by him as he worked with those in the community. I'll say it like that. He met with the middle school folks in February to discuss, of course, the Southwest Area and Rosin Creek Community Park and receive feedback. He met with the Rosin Creek Elementary parent group in February. February. These these are all this year. In March, he met with the Roslyn CDI Community Builders Initiative. And on the 17th, he met with the boys and girls clubs, both in juvenile hall for boys and girls separately. And he also met with the neighborhood group on March 22nd. And from that, there was a discussion about potentially bringing those folks that had participated with the council member, listening sessions to have more of a working session that was a listening session to discuss so we can have neighbors that, as you can tell from some of the comments we received, not everybody agrees with each other and what should happen out here. And so the neighbors are really, the neighbors definitely are needing this time to have the conversation with each other on what they should do with their community park. And so this last, it's called working session on here to distinguish it, but the last listening session where the council member invited members from each of these former listening sessions to communicate with each other and have conversations with the council member. I was on hand if there were any technical questions, like I was for some of the listening sessions, not all of them available just for technical questions if there were any. And bring those community members together to have a conversation with each other about what was important to each other and how they could find common ground. All of these meetings were interesting to listen to and hear and listen to everybody's perspective, which I'm just gonna casually say, I think this has been needed, something we've needed all along, is a way to connect the neighbors to have conversations with each other and talk about what is possible. So let's look at the summary of the listening session. Let's go to the next slide. So I'm just gonna kind of skim through some of these. There was a lot of things that got talked about, a lot of things that got talked about. A lot of them were very similar to all the content we've read about these viewpoints where we want some folks want nothing but nature. They don't want anything except the nature center and what's already there and some trails and others that want a little more activity and a little more support for community using the park. So these are just some of the things that we ultimately ended up changing on the master plan. When you look at the plan again, it doesn't graphically look strikingly different, but we made a bunch of changes and clarified things because I think that was in these listening sessions what I noticed is clarification of things. What do you mean by this or what do we mean by that? So it was really good time for the council member to hear from the community and for staff to listen in to what was happening there. And so one of the things that came up on note number two, we added the word trilingual to note number six, which reads interpreted signage to include trilingual educational and historical information, which is a great improvement to interpreting nature and other things that you can find at the park as well as providing just basic notification of rules, park rules. So trilingual was really important. We have a lot of multicultural languages in Roseland and it was a great improvement to the plan. There is concern about the amount of parking because we had parking at the nature center and then there was also parking on the lower section so that people could park and go to the southern portion of the park. There isn't any parking along Burbank Avenue, I should clarify, there is a little bit in McMinn, but there isn't any parking on Burbank and there isn't any sidewalks plan, the sidewalks will be interior to the park. As part of the annexation process, the community decided they did not want to see traditional sidewalks in this area, so we moved the sidewalks inside the plan. So we looked at changing the parking note to say that we really are only essentially going to put in parking when we absolutely need it. So phase two would read that, I'll just read it to you, let's see. All paving for walkways and bikeways and parking to be permeable except where required. Parking areas to be improved phases. Parking only to be added as required to support park improvements. Phase one would just be for emergency access and ADA compliance spaces only. And then phase two would add additional spaces to support improvements. So if we added the nature center, we would obviously be required to install more spaces. And then phase three is adding additional parking only as needed, so as requested or needed. So we might be able to move forward with this plan with a little less parking, especially if we look at it in a phased approach, which is something we would naturally do, but it wasn't clear in the plan. So we clarified that. One of the big things, one of the kind of big discussion points that I remember hearing at the listening sessions was about the barbecues and whether or not we should get rid of the barbecues or keep the barbecues, because there was a discussion that potentially large picnic areas and barbecues could attract folks that could be noisy and loud and maybe not to use the park in a more quiet method for picnicking. But we also know as staff that people will start to bring their own barbecues if we don't have somewhere for barbecues. So we looked at, could we actually just include single use, small barbecues, so we attract picnickers that would like to have a barbecues rather than giant groups of folks. And that was a really great and significant change we made to this master plan to clarify that we're really looking for single use picnic tables with a barbecue on some of them. So that it's not a huge place for a big party necessarily. But we still want people to be able to sit down and enjoy the space at a picnic table and have the option for barbecuing with an ash disposal bin. So anytime we're using a barbecue area in a park, we have an ash disposal bin which has been wonderful for us. So it can be collected in a safe manner rather than be just being dumped somewhere and they work great. We use them at their community park where we have a variety of picnic in barbecue areas and they work wonderfully. Sorry, I'm going to take a little drink there. The other thing was, one of the things that came out of this was to acknowledge that the master plan represents partnership of ideas from a variety of community groups in Rosland. Everyone did work really hard to listen to each other and hear each other even though they may not have agreed with each other on how this park should be moving forward. And so we thought it would be important to recognize that work that has been done. And so it's listed as one of the notes. Next slide please. The other thing was what I mentioned earlier about the upland habitat restoration. We clarified with our environmental consultant that we could include that note so that if we could partner with somebody that that area could be restored. Certainly it would be too much for the city to take on and maintain into perpetuity without a funding source, but a partnership would be great. We also removed the word multi-use turf because we understood that people were understanding that it's artificial sports turf and really we just mean lawn. We're looking for a place, there was a request for Zumba classes or just yoga, being able to have a safe space to put a blanket down and have a picnic or do something relaxing. And we also clarified that the interpretive sign was to include tribal nations, biologists, biological things so that we can, as we get ready to implement future interpretive signage, we'll be working with a variety of folks from across the community including more tribal nations to really develop the most amazing educational signage that we can because the park is wonderful and we want to educate folks about that. All right. I didn't read everything there. I just wanted to give you the highlights. Next slide, please. So here's the plan. And as I mentioned graphically, it doesn't look a lot different, but the community did a lot of work to come to this point to clarify things and to improve the master plan. So it can be something that a wide variety of people in the community could enjoy, or it's not exactly the neighborhood preserve. There are options for reduced amount of activity and clarification of what we need. And so I think the things again that are a little bit different than the neighborhood preserve plan are that we'd still like to look at the option for having a passive active use for the community garden area or an outdoor classroom. So we still would like to have that as an option going forward. And again, there isn't funding waiting for this to be built in its entirety yet. We still need to get us to a point where we have enough funding to build the park and we will make great strides in that. But we also have to consider that this is not a master plan for right now. This is a master plan for the future. The only portion of this master plan that are required by the Ag and Open Space to complete sooner than later is the northern trail that connects McMain Avenue to Rosen Creek Elementary and of course the crosswalk. And everybody has a huge interest in making that happen and getting that crosswalk on that trail for the students there. The other thing was the community discussed keeping the sports court slash fire truck turnaround. We need the truck turnaround anyway with the idea that we don't want to limit what it could be in the future. We want to leave it open because again this would be into the future when we're looking at the community and having to make a decision on what sort of sport court it could be. Pickleball, bocce, basketball, whatever is the desire at the time. Let's see, we have maintained the area's lawn. Again, if we did, I think the difference between the neighborhood idea and this is upland restoration and when I participated in upland restoration, native grasses are bunch grasses and they're very hard sometimes to mow and to keep in a consistent method. So we would still look at this being a lawn but there are species of lawn that are more adapted to drought tolerance and there are irrigation systems that can be run underground to help with control of water use on that. Again, we really look to the species. They wouldn't necessarily be considered native but they could be species that are hybrids and not just that Kentucky bluegrass that you see in a lot of our Kentucky bluegrass, California bluegrass that you see in all of our other parks. So this would be more of a dry grass although it would still be able to be mowed as a lawn. And so that's one of the differences there as well. And so these were the changes made. This plan represents of course everything we've heard today including the neighborhood preserve request including what we heard and received from Council Member Alvarez listening sessions he conducted. And I wanted to take a moment just to highlight the notes here we talk in the notes about the hydration stations and that site furnishings will be located like benches and things like that. They're just too small to represent but we assume that those things are going to be happening in this park here and there as needed. We clarified that the picnic area would be someone woodchips, others on concrete we only need to use concrete in those cases and it still could be permeable in those cases where we need compliance for ADA. And we talked about the parking that's in the notes. We also clarified that the gates for the park would be locked at sunset. So this is a park roll citywide that parks are closed at sunset except those ones where we have community centers or something hyperactive there where we want people with sports lighting this daily. This is certainly not that case here so we want to see this park closed at sunset. The interpretive signage is listed there and then again that the last note talks about the partnership of ideas that this plan represents. It doesn't give every single person exactly what they wanted but it certainly tries hard to preserve most of this land. This is an 85% preserved plan compared to some of the development that's happening here. The other thing is we clarified that the parking lots would be gravel and or permeable paving where we needed as you wind that ground road out to Burbank you have to have a little bit of permeable concrete or something there so you don't get a bunch of gravel on Burbank. But we want, you know, the emphasis here was on permeable surfaces, natural things the playground would be more of a natural area with wooden structures and different things like that that's a more natural surface no plastics or anything like that would be used. So we did a lot of clarification with that and with the emphasis that this be mostly a very quiet park with some activities so that we could attract the neighbors that really need an active space to play. We went over a little bit about how much development is happening in Roseland Roseland used to be a quiet rural community it is changing it is changing and developing and growing as anticipated with the city is annexing the city now and we do anticipate a lot of the new development that we're seeing they just don't have yards and so we need a space for folks to recreate that isn't just walking trails only we can do a little bit more here at this park and we can provide a little bit more it isn't much but it's a little bit more to attract people and encourage them to walk on the trails they might have come there to be at the picnic space but then that might lead them to walking the trails and looking at the nature center and looking at the interpretive signage and maybe they get involved with the nature center or volunteering for Roseland restoration and things like that so there's it's a nice evolution of a community that has a lot of divergent ideas about how they want to see this park and so let's go to the next slide and so here's just, we just wanted to put this together about when we talk about play areas they don't have to be those plastic play areas necessary there's lots of really innovative ways of incorporating play structures and play areas that are natural organic shapes such as mushrooms and things like that to really keep that natural aesthetic in the park we can use real logs a combination of real logs with concrete with the real logs you have to be careful of the long term maintenance so there's amazing products that can be used that mimic logs and you can combine those two to really give a sense of how we can incorporate play area to this neighbor and the same thing could be done with the picnic areas wooden structures and more natural surfaces would be the emphasis of this park that's a last slide so this is just my recommendation and let me back up not my recommendation it's a recommendation to the city council to the city council for rosin creek community park master plan and it's associated environmental declaration to include a nature center restroom parking trails interpretive signage fitness stations a sports court just one picnic areas play areas along a community garden or outdoor classroom hydration stations site furnishings split rail fencing and integrate gates in a crosswalk and with that I will look to our host to include some panelists we have to help answer a future question and answers we have we have our consultant from design workshop here who are the designers for the graphic layout she was our consultant that helped the community come together for the march 4th 2020 meeting and has been with us helping guide us we have Gustavo Mendoza who has been working with the council member this is the council member with listening sessions and we also have Will Burns from David J. Powers and I am checking to see if we have if council member Alvarez was able to join us or not doesn't look like it I'm not seeing him yet he did plan to be here and we'll fill him in at our next opportunity and then I don't see Ben Fish from design workshop but let me see yeah anyway hopefully we've got some folks here to help you help me answer some of the questions I certainly am very familiar with the plan but these are our experts as well so with that I turn it back over to Chair Cuant thank you thank you and things are messy but they're worth doing I'm hoping the board can hang in there and it's got some interesting questions and clarification points my hope, my thought was to go through the park parts as parcels and I suddenly realized there's also the community engagement questions but I thought the physical aspects would be a good place to start simply because they're defined and when I look at my screen it goes Carolina, Pamela, Logan, then Steve and that's how I would like to go just for ease to get points of clarification and questions at this point addressed so we would start with you Carolina on the grasslands area do you have any questions can we take it out of the presentation mode Carol sounds great to me great thank you Carol I do not have any questions I don't know that we have ever been privileged to have such a detailed and complete package as we explained to us staff I must say big applause you did a great job but passing it along to Pamela I don't have any Pamela it's all yours dear Carol to clarify it's only about the grassland right now okay I do have thank you thank you very much I do have a question about the purple grassland area and so maybe it's a question about the picnic area or it's a question about the purple grass I kind of thought it it took away from the purple grassland area and it also was sitting outside in the bright sunshine where people might want to shade the area to sit and have a picnic so I thought why there there we could have a panel if we could have that one with the bottom quadrant we're kind of up at the northern end right now oh okay I'm sorry I didn't clear off the northern and purple needle grass no I don't think it is but that grassland up there y yo no sé que es una pregunta, yo creo, pero sí, me pido en mi voto para buscar esos tipos de partículas, hacer grantes juntos, tenerlo educativo y conservación ambiental, foca y intenta hacer eso suceder, sí. Logan. Sí, primero voy a decir un buen trabajo a todos, a Echeveron Carolina. Yo fui a la propiedad con el mayor hoy. Así que voy a llevar algunas de sus propiedades, creo que vamos a hablar de la engagement más tarde. Pero, sí, para esa parte norte, mi pregunta, Jen, es, ¿verdad, habrá sidewalks construidos en Burbank? Porque yo justo viajé hoy y no hay sidewalks en el lado donde el parque es. Sí, ahí, como parte del plan de área subestitulado y la estación, la comunidad optó a no tener sidewalks tradicionales en ahí. Así que, vamos a tener algunas de las cosas similares que veis ahora con las curvas y van a ser movidas. Así que, voy a explicar. Así que, el sidewalk en el lado de Burbank, Burbank va a mover dentro del parque. Así que, la estación que veis más cerca de Burbank, eso va a ser la oficial sidewalk, si, si, si lo hará. Y entonces, lo que se ha quedado en Burbank es una bicicleta. Y luego, también hemos sido observados por el departamento de construcción que si y cuando desarrollamos este parque, vamos a ser requeridos para conectar y mover todos esos parques en un poco, cuando salgan del parque y van al norte y al sur de Burbank hasta el más cercano del parque. Así que, habrá algunos accesos pedestrianes en el parque. Y luego, en McMahon, por supuesto, hay already existing sidewalks. Y eso va a ser justificado si necesita. Great, well, since there's already school children using it and I'm concerned for their safety, and I focus on that. You said that's first, so that's great. I think that's it for my comments on the northern part. And we'll go to Steve. Most my questions and concerns were concerns were answered by the Santos insightful and thorough presentation. Great job, Jen. And let's say I do have several more clarifying quick answer questions, but I organized them over the past month in a way that's not as our chair and ask us to organize them. So bear with me. I don't think this will take much time. For example, is the plan for this park to be built all at once or in phases. So what we plan to do and we are ready to do with our design consultant is build that trail that connects McMahon Avenue to Burbank Avenue and then the crosswalk. And from there, we'll have to look at funding we have from park development impact fees that are collected in the entire southwest quadrant and look at what we can do with those funds, what we should do and should those funds go to other parks or we should be funneling on Roseland. We have a little bit now to do some parts of the park, but certainly not all of it. So we would consider this very similar to a lot of plans where we get a master plan or just don't have a funding to implement. So we consider this in phases. So what's anticipated for the sports court fire truck turnaround area or basketball courts or what. Steve, if we could wait until we get down to that area of the park. Okay, let me go through my questions and see what's north or south. I mean, I really didn't organize that much. This is just the grassland. And what about the category for just general questions? Is there a place for those or? Can we hold those to the end? Okay, I'll wait until the end and I'll go through my clarifications. My apologies. We it's hard enough doing kind of a hodgepodge approach when we're all in person. It becomes that much more challenging in zoom. And I really hope this is the only time we ever have to do a master plan on zoom. Saying that Jen in the grassland area. Aside from the paths. Those are the only development. Changes that are planned there. Irrigation is not planned. Park benches are not planned. Garbage cans are not planned. It's going to be as is, or a restored grassland, which means planting, but in a native variety. Is that correct? Right. That's correct. We're not planning any irrigation, even if it's restored, we really wouldn't want to have any irrigation up there would want it to be a natural situation. There will be benches and trash cans occasionally through the northern section. I'm not sure if one would end up particular on this route or not. We'd work at that time to community and see what's, what's needed or what's desired. In that area. Thank you. Last question. Sorry, I didn't forewarn you of this one. In our current park system. Can you think of another established park. That has a parcel similar to this that isn't existing. Can you give us a point of reference? That either we would know just because it's an existing park, or could go look at for what would be a, a kindred park spirit to the grassland area. Well, let me think. So right now, Kiwana Springs community park is undeveloped. We did finish the master plan, but it's undeveloped. So that's a good location for what to expect in the grassland area of Roseland. Another one would be Nagasawa community park. And it's got, it's mostly a boat launch on to family of lake with trails and natural areas left for just mowing. So those are two areas. I'm sure there's more. Like at Howard Park, we really, you know, in those natural areas of Howard Park, the only thing that's happening there is taking down of the weeds, usually by people, because it's too much to try to get, you know, movers in there sometimes or goats, but a similar kind of scenario. But I would say Kiwana Springs community park. Would be the closest. The closest area. We don't have any place where we have. Restored grasslands. That I am. I'm trying to think of where we have those. We have. Different areas that have been left alone, but they're not specifically restored grasslands. Good enough. Moving on. We're going to. We're going to. We're going to the woodland. Carolina. Do you have any questions about, or click the point of clarifications. On the woodland part of the presentation. No, the woodlands is perfectly clear to me. It's the woodlands. To be so basic. I suppose it's more of a comment than a question, but I do. Again, hope that the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the. The, the, the, the, the. The, the, the. The. No. It seems like there's a lot of new science around this. en un modo que hace que ellos sean más saludables, y que les mantienes estirando, y que el removo de los árboles debería ser hecho si esos árboles no belongedan ahí, y que actualmente empiezan a la salud natural de la oca de la tierra. Así que, espero que trabajemos con los grupos de conservación y el Preservador PEP, o las universidades o tal, para asegurar que estamos haciendo eso en lo mejor posible. Me aprecio eso. Y, para un punto de clarificación, tenemos intereses de diferentes grupos que gustaría hacer cosas diferentes. Veremos cuando el parque se ha desarrollado, pero hemos escuchado este interés, que es muy emocionante. Sí, totalmente echo el panorama de eso. Cuando estaba ahí, se veía, no como el más saludable, oca de la tierra, un poco sobregronado, y probablemente no haya tenido un fuego en eso en bastante tiempo, que sería bueno para ello, en un modo, un fuego bajo escala. Así que, totalmente de acuerdo, vamos a tener algunas fórmulas de los grupos de la tierra para asegurar que ese es un gran fútbol que se despliega siempre. Así que, echo los comentarios previos, solo porque es un truco, no significa, es un truco saludable, pero algunos de esos ocas que están fuera de ahí, para saber que están todos incorporados en el plan, es muy importante y bueno saber, y debería hacer todo feliz, todo feliz. Así que, eso que se dice, vamos a hablar de la quarta cuadera, que es todos los aspectos desarrollados. Y a este punto, tal vez, vamos a la mapa de 2021. Mi ayuda, me gustaría decir, que tenía este gran camino, de cómo podíamos systematically ir a través de estos elementos, pero no, así que, es más, se puede agarrar, para, todo lo que está desarrollado, está en la quarta cuadera, y, probablemente, alguien de los ciudadanos está tomando notas, porque aquí es donde las ideas van a empezar a popar o las preguntas van a ser preguntadas. Y, vamos a Carolina, y nosotros vamos a ver... Esa es una pregunta. Me siento, vámonos, quién está hablando. Estaba preguntando que los ciudadanos ponen el gráfico de 2021 para una referencia a este punto. Ok. ¿Puedemos esperar para eso? Mary Lou, eso sería la quarta cuadera 32. Puedes, llevar eso, o Emily. Ok, solo un momento. Gracias. ¿Puedes esperar para eso? Sí, lo dejo. Puedes ir, estamos tomando notas. Ok, no quiero, lo dejo, lo dejo, lo dejo. Esto va a ser el desafío. Esto es el que realmente vamos a estar hablando y escuchando. Tenemos un 20-20 sensos, figuras que van a cambiar cosas. Esto va a ser, creo que, el desafío para todos. Creo que vamos a tener que pagar mucha atención a lo que las personas están diciendo y probablemente revisar los otros parques un poco más cercanos en cuanto a lo que piensamos que esta parte particular del parque debería ser, porque esto es lo que vamos a llevar a los más empujados, o feedback, o adobos, o no-no de la comunidad. Y lo entiendo totalmente. Es su parque. Ellos realmente, realmente quieren ser parte de ello. Yo, por lo que, quieren ser parte de ello. Así que, digo que realmente vamos a tener que poner nuestras piensas en esta parte. Oh, Pamela, lo voy a dar a vosotros. ¡Gracias, muchas gracias! Tengo algunas preguntas sobre la infraestructura, el agua y la infraestructura para servir los bares y la irrigación. Y es eso el agua de la ciudad? Y la ciudad de Seward? Sí. Tenemos servicios en la Avenida Verde para salvar a ellos. O si decidimos tener un restaurante contra toiles de puesta, o toiles de composto, podemos hacer eso también. Pero hay servicios. OK, OK, great. Tengo una pregunta y una pregunta sobre si el escuadrón de la clase sobre la comunidad sea desarrollado como un escuadrón de la comunidad o un escuadrón de la clase. Parece que es muy tarde para ir a ir a tu escuadrón. De cualquier lugar, puedes ir con un carro o llevar tus bares y luego llevar tus puestos. Me imagino un bar que tiene un programa muy vibrante. Y, de nuevo, me imagino el escuadrón si hay un escuadrón que es algo que sería una ciudad y una escuadrón que está cerrada. ¿Cómo alguien ha hablado? ¿Es grande enough para tener un escuadrón de puesta y también un espacio de enseñanza? Sí, es grande enough para hacer eso. Es para que dependa de cómo grande queremos este escuadrón de la clase versus cómo grande queremos la comunidad de la clase. Pero es un espacio enorme de la clase. Se ha already been used para un escuadrón. Hay already irrigation lines de la clase que podríamos potenciar y ver que hay already la infraestructura de la clase para hacer eso. Y, por espacio, no podríamos tener todo el espacio que tenemos en la comunidad de la clase. Pero estamos buscando una actividad pasiva. Si querés ir al sitio, esta es una área secruta. Y es algo que queremos una actividad pasiva en un escuadrón regular. Así que, de la perspectiva de la clase, podríamos apoyar a todos o a todos o a todo lo que sea. Para un aspecto de seguridad, creo que es lo mismo. Sí. Los más ojos que tenemos en el parque haciendo algo. Y las guardanuras de la comunidad tendrán a estar en su jardín en una variedad de horas de día. Es diferente. Así que, es probable ver a las guardanuras de la comunidad donde el escuadrón que parece podría ser de la clase. Así que, la combinación de cosas podría ser útil. Y podría ser útil. ¿Puedes ver para mí como regresar a esa pregunta que tenía sobre el área de la escuadrón en el medio de la área de la escuadrón en el medio de la área de la escuadrón? ¿Por qué es ese lugar allí y no más al lado de la escuadrón? Sí. Y así, si Mary Lou o parece que hay algo que pasa, si podemos volver a la mapa, si veas eso, la área de la escuadrón de la escuadrón es exactamente identificada de donde hemos encontrado. Así que no existe esa escuadrón en ese lugar. Y pensamos que sería un buen lugar para tener un espacio pequeño porque no querríamos ir a un lugar largo o nada más hacia allá. Así que sería un lugar muy quieto y también tener alguna interpretación. Claro. OK. Y luego, por último, hay la escuadrón de la escuadrón y luego hay la construcción de la adicional. ¿Es en la escuadrón en el medio de la escuadrón por la calle como la nueva construcción en el medio de la escuadrón? Y estoy curioso sobre qué escuadrón están ahí y ¿están accesibles a la escuadrón después de horas? Ya. Así que es una gran pregunta. Nos da mucho en las reuniones comunes. ¿Por qué necesitas aquí? Si ya lo tenemos nearby. Y una de las cosas que ha cambiado durante los últimos años con acceso a las escuadrónes y es escuadrón no quiere gente en su espacio después de la escuadrón. Porque se ofteneron después de las programas como en Rosenthal Creek Elementary. Y mientras hay un principal o un distrito que es open para eso, lo que hemos visto durante los años es una constante cerradura de acceso a la ciudad a estos espacios y un ongo de cerradura. Y así no podemos garantizar la perpetuidad que esos servicios estarán ahí para la comunidad, incluso si un principal puede ser abierto ahora mismo. Hemos visto que eso ha cambiado drastically cuando un nuevo principal viene o tienen discusiones de la ciudad sobre quién está llegando a la escuadrón después de horas y quién debe estar ahí y quién no debe estar ahí, especialmente con asegurar que los estudiantes sean seguros en el programa de escuadrón. Así que eso realmente hace muy poco acceso. Ellos a veces run las cosas por la semana y usan ventajas. Así que realmente hace muy poco acceso para la comunidad y seguramente no access durante las escuadrónes regular. Así que eso es algo que tomamos en consideración cuando nos veamos usando, poniendo en las cosas las playgrounds o un escuadrón o algo así que queremos asegurar que podemos tener eso en el futuro y que podemos garantizar eso con la escuadrón. Creo que es muy importante para la resiliación y no solo tener espacios naturales pero también tener lugares donde las personas pueden ejercir y ganar y conocer a cada otro. Y eso es por lo que todos estamos interesados en los parques, yo creo. Estoy curioso de y si alguien aquí en esta en esta reunión ahora se acuerda de estos nuevos desarrollamientos que están construyendo right near there. You know, affordable multi-family housing developments are those builders going to put in playgrounds in those complexes that are going in does anyone know if that was asked of them is it something that we expect? Just clarifying remember if that was a question for staff or is that was a question out to to the board. Well, I don't just as anybody even know I was trying to search permits in Santa Rosa and development things and I, you know, I didn't spend hours on it so I just don't know but I thought maybe somebody in the in the meeting city staff or one of the members knows amado. Oh, go ahead. So I did a Google Earth flyover. I know I'm not the only one and the current development it looked like four or five buildings back because they're cluster buildings with apartments. It looked like there was some play structure. I couldn't get close enough to see really what it was. I think it was about 50 units. It did not look like a real playground. It looked like a small dedicated area. And I echo your concern, especially with more growth slotted for this area and who's going to be living in those high density units? Yeah, thank you. That's really the last question I had right at the moment. So thank you. And I'll just clarify a lot of times our staff do review development applications as they come in. And a lot of times they'll include a playground that they're just a reminder there is no requirement for those developments to continue that into perpetuity. Logan. Thank you, Carol. So I guess I'll try to start sort of west to east with the Nature Center. I think that's a great idea. I'd encourage it to be outdoors and as adaptable as possible. I think an indoor Nature Center is sort of an oxymoron. Let's let's have people be more outdoors, probably cheaper. We won't have to heat it and cool it and it can have interactive panels and as long as there's a restroom there, I think that's that's really all that would be necessary indoors. Community gardens a great idea. And just on that, the community garden, the picnic area, the lawn area, the sports courts. I'll just say that I think those are very important to the neighborhood. And I think they're especially important to what you said about the future growth of the area as an apartment dweller myself as a renter. I don't have any of those things at my home. I can't use a grill in my backyard. I don't have a lawn. And so I think a lot of folks are going to be in that same situation and want those services and those amenities. They're going to bring and like you said, that'll bring them to the park. That'll be their introduction to the park and then they can discover all the other great stuff in the park. So I really I think we need to keep those. I think it's great again that you have the barbecues, the picnic area, a place where people can congregate, meet their neighbors. That's exactly what we want happening at a park. And then there's even still some of the natural features like the grass, the purple needle grassland. I don't know if that's actually purple, but it sounds like it'll be cool. So yeah, I think the plan right now for the southern tier, those amenities looks great. I do have a few concerns like Tamal about the community garden. So maybe like a better path there like some sort of wheelbarrow or I don't know something people can use. It is a little isolated. We just want to make sure people are using it, I think is all. So whatever we can do to encourage access, but otherwise it looks great to me. Thanks and all. If you don't mind, I'll just touch base on that too. Right now there is a driveway that goes all the way back there that is that is gravel. And so theoretically that pathway that's through there could be utilized for the occasional loads of mulch and things that are needed, which is very similar to as large as bear garden is the community garden there. We don't have any vehicular access for that park either. So once in a while drop us that everything else is brought in as as needed. So so yeah. So what used to be the driveway along the homes there that'll basically still be like a flat, easily traversable area. Great. Yeah, and we'll have a trail in which can be utilized occasionally as needed to bring in mulcher anything else that's needed. Great. Thank you for that clarification. That's it for me Carol. Thanks, Jen, a point of clarification that's a driveway coming in from McMinn to the area that's the community garden. It comes in essentially where you see the major center in the parking lot. That's where the home used to be and there is so there's a path in from Burbank actually over over that way. It's gated right now Carol. There's like a no parking sign in a gate over it. But but it's essentially across the entire width of the park. There's no access from McMinn to the community garden on any level. That's correct. That's correct. It's it's once you get past that community garden area, it's very wooded. Stephen. Oh, thank you. I do have a couple quick clarifications or questions. But I think that Miss Santos presentation answered probably. 20 or 30 of my questions or or inquisitions regarding the sports courts. What's anticipated for this sports court firetruck turnaround area? There's basketball courts or what? So one of the things we've heard recently is basketball has been something that when we meet with students or younger generations has been of interest. But we we specifically do not call out basketball because, as we mentioned earlier, it's it might be years before we can develop that portion of it and we want to reserve it. So if something really cool like pickleball or some other sport develops that's something we want to have in there that's a court-based sport like tennis, pickleball, basketball similar to that. We want to be able to have that option. But right now, if we built this thing right now, we would go based on what we heard, which is basketball. But we leave it open. And so it's in that firetruck turnaround because the firetruck turnaround only needs to be used when a firetruck enters there. So it so we don't need to add additional paving to have a sport court. We can use that. We can double duty, so to speak. Well, I noticed that the community seemed to have mentioned such things as basketball courts. And I'm sure if there was a court there that the players, if they just happened to be there when the emergency folks at the fire department arrived that be happy to step out of the way and be appreciative of the fact that the city is sending emergency folks or someone had a heart attack or a broken leg or whatever it might be. So I didn't think that would be much of an issue. Regarding trees, if if more trees will be planted, please consider hosting a community event for planting native drought tolerant trees. The city could provide tree saplings, plants, lunch or food trucks while community members bring shovels, energy and passion. Good days for this event could be Earth Day or Abur Day. And so that's happened in many communities. And it's a way to kind of bring everybody together and kind of offset the cost and just everybody have a good time and come together. Regarding another aspect, hopefully the plan to avoid is to avoid concrete asphalt for parking driveways and incorporate the use of permeable gravel or stone that can reduce temperature while allowing rainwater to permeate into the soil, you know, lessening urban runoff. The costs actually less than concrete, but there's some ongoing maintenance costs. So I was wondering, is there is the plan to avoid parking lots and driveways with concrete and have permeable? Yes. So our plan is to utilize a stabilized gravel. So you have a little system underneath that compacts it. So it's stabilized for most of the parking. And then if you've seen these, they often use fire hoses to identify where the parking lanes are, where the parking areas would be. When we have a requirement, we have a requirement to have so many ADA or handicapped, you know, compliant spaces in the parking area. Those wheels still have to have. I think we can do permeable paving, but I'm not sure we'll have to have to check that those, those will need to be ADA compliant, but the rest of it can be natural and open. And we don't have. There is no. I don't think there's any need for any asphalt anywhere in this plan at all. Really looking at permeable surfaces throughout. That's great. Will solar panels be installed, say, on the roofs of the nature center or restrooms? That will certainly be a consideration to reduce the electrical water. You know, whatever we do, if we're if we're promoting preservation of nature, anything we can do when we get to that point would definitely be considered. Regarding the Rosalind Creek restoration, I'm curious of what that might entail. And I designed a similar situation in previous as a planning commissioner. And I'd like you to consider adding micro dams that create small waterfiles falls that aerates and helps clean the water if there's any water that comes through there in our drought top drought years. Anyway, they can help your possibly irrigate the parks landscape. Also consider adding what's our micro hydroelectric generators that can deliver electricity to the park. These generators are now the size of a milk carton. I mean, they're micro. And if the water any water running through there, why not kind of harness some of that some of that energy? I thought I heard that the city would provide educational classes. No, maybe hosting school field trips for learning about native landscapes, local wildlife, human and development and history, the environment and so on could be considered maybe even a joint venture with the Luther Berbank gardens could be helpful. Another question is how is park security addressed? I mean, will residents feel safe using this proposed park? I mean, will it be well lighted or closed at night? Help me understand that. Or so this park is planned to be closed at sunset, so we wouldn't want to see anybody in there. There's no lighting plan except for potentially by the restroom building and adjacent to the nature center so that they can be visible for our police force, who is our security, so to speak for our parks and our our safety. They provide service to our parks. We also have a security company that closes un locks our gates every night. So those are the some of the aspects will we'll see as it gets dark is that people are not there and during the day, something that we recognize that works well is parks that have more people in them and more uses that are attracting folks tend to attract less issues, I'll say. Overall, it's not exclusive, but certainly that's something we've noticed, which is why we look at, you know, activating with something passively activating that after classroom slash community garden area so that we can get neighbors and and people visiting the park. Working and actively decorating their park is a wonderful deterrent for for your legal activity. So we hope that those things, those combinations of things are keeping people safe in the park. So with the 2.4 parks for a thousand community residents, Rosalind falls short of the general plans goal of almost 4 parks per thousand. The mitigated negative deck says that the project's impact will be mitigated to less than significant and the city staff in the community have engaged for what over a decade sharing and incorporated many great ideas and desires addressing community concerns and more. And since parks are really an important part of a community's identity and can enhance the quality of life and the plan appears to be a good balance between the built and natural environment that's long or overdue. If it's if it's appropriate, I would like to move that the Board of Community Service recommended to the City Council that the proves the proposed Rotland Community Park Master Plan is presented today. I second that motion. Could I have a turn? You guys are kind of jump in the gun. I think everybody wants to go home as it were. But Steven, grab your horse and hold them. OK. Well, a proposal. I. A move has been made and seconded. I would have appreciated. I would have appreciated my opportunity to ask some questions on the. What. Carol, I was not doing that intending to cut you off. We we now can have discussion since you're in motion. It's valuable. So absolutely. I also have a few questions about the the develop portions of the park for staff and for communication. First, I would like to clarify. There is no public access in any way, shape or form from McMinn to the park at all. Or there's one. Jen, could you clarify that one more time? Sure, sure. Yeah, so there is pedestrian access. You can you can actually drive your vehicle up to McMinn and park on this, you know, on the street and you can walk in from there. But otherwise there is no vehicular access from McMinn, but there is pedestrian access. You can also ride your bike in whatever you want, tri-bike. So there is some access, just not vehicular. Great. But my next area of interest was if you could give me some size information, let's say that I'm a mother with a toddler and a kid in a stroller and I park in the Southern parking lot and I want to go have a picnic. I have to get across that lawn. How long is going to take me to get across that lawn? How big is it that nature play area, that lawn area? It's it's roughly the same size as the one at Bear Park. So it might take you a couple minutes to get across it. So it's only like half acre. It's a little bit less than that. It's it's it's not a half acre. It's much smaller. So again, getting to the picnic area, to the restroom, to the playground. It's not a huge space. No, it's not a huge space. And we do have picnicking near the parking. There's also picnicking near the purple needle brass. It's just not as. It's a little bit harder to see. So so my other comment was the outdoor garden. Is there another community garden in our system that is as park landlocked as this one is potentially? I think this might be a unique situation. We have something very similar of Juilliard, where there is no access into a little. There's a small, small community garden there. There is no real access, but very similar to what we might do here is allow. Access occasionally a few times a year with supervision from staff of deliveries of a mulch or anything like that. Once the community garden is rolling, that only needs to happen once or twice a year, which and we're taking that from a huge community garden and bear. As an example, but I would say Juilliard is probably the most remote like this, but none of the community gardens we have have vehicular access, but most of them have you can easily pull up in your car, maybe not a bear. There's not a lot of parking or Juilliard, but you can, you know, it's closer than this if you are walking a little bit, but it's still an easy maybe five minutes. I, you know, if you're if you're parking in the next to the nature center and walking to the outdoor community garden, it hasn't taken me very long because I usually park in that area to walk the park. If I'm doing work at the park and analysis when you walk, it's very short. Please note that I'm concerned about the remoteness of the community potential community garden site. And that's it for me on that it's getting late. The last thing is overview or questions that were not specific to the sections of the park. Does anybody have any thing that didn't get addressed because of the way this was done? If so, please speak now. Logan. Yeah, one comment that the mayor shared with me was just concerned and just hoping that we hear from as many young people as possible in Rosalind. He wanted me to pass on that concern to just ensure that we're getting that voice at the events. And I think it's great what you're doing going the community events. That's a really good approach to get a cross section rather than the people that come to us who are very passionate. And that's great. But we want we want to hear from everyone. And just talking about his points about how it's under park, as you said, and this is part of bringing Rosalind up to the standard of the rest of the city. It's part of having equity in among our residents. And I think that this could be the Howard Park of Rosalind. It's really beautiful. And I think it can really be a gem. I have one question, one general question. What happened to the idea for a dog park in there? I didn't I miss that where that dropped off in the iterations. Well, ultimately it was decided that it was too contentious among the community members. There was extreme vocal outcry for for having something like that there. The recommendation from the board was because we had seen so many dog park requests come through before that. And it's something that the moment we get down where the master plan is the first thing that gets requested. And so there was just a it was a place where we could compromise and look at a more passive use of the space and keep this project rolling. And so just to be clear, people are able to submit their ideas later on after the parks fully built. If they say, hey, I think it should have this or it should have that. There's still a way that members of the public can submit those ideas, right? Yes, we often I will be bringing probably in the future amendments of master plans to you as we move forward. And you know, this master plan will be if it is put into place this year, if we don't build something for five years or so, you know, to build a lot of it, there may be different expectations at that time. So at that time, we could amend the master plan and communities desires. Thank you. That's it for me, Carol. Thank you for putting up with all my questions for the questions, the better. Steve, I do see your literal hand raised, but also I saw Pamela had her hand raised. So can I go to Pamela first? Pamela, did you have a question? It's really quick. And I am sorry that I don't know this off the top of my head. I'm very curious about the trilingual interpretive signage. And it's obvious to me that we're going to have English and Spanish, but is the third language in Asian language or Tagalog? Or what is the or or a Native American? Like, what is it going to be? We we didn't decide that there's several Asian languages and I am definitely I apologize in advance, going to mess this up. It's really in languages in in Jerusalem. There's a variety of so it doesn't even need to be three, it can be more. But at Bear Park, we have three different types of cultural barbecues. And that that has been a message that has been carrying Roseanne for a while. So that is something the community mentioned. And many indigenous languages for Central American folks. So I would just say don't limit yourself to three. Just say multilingual, possibly. Right, right. Yeah, definitely. I don't think we need to limit it to three, but we definitely want to do at least three. Possibly Braille as well. So they can. So Stephen, I'll go to you. I'll ask for one more wrap up questions and then we will get ready to go to public comments. That's great. I just wanted to mention that the state of California is ethnic requirements and the procedural requirements for commissions and boards are quite clear that the chair waits until everybody else. All the other commissioners or members of the board have their say and then they have their say and I admire and congratulate Carol for following those because so many of our cities in California actually don't do that. And I also apologize for being a little bit premature in my motion. So I admire you, Carol, and I thank you, Carol, for following those ethics and procedural guidelines. Kudos to you. Oh, Carol, you're muted. We can't hear you. Oh, I was flustered. I'm not used to compliments. Thank you, Steve. Any last comments or queries from board members before we open it up to the public? Raise your hand or just call them out. OK, at this point, we turn it over to Emily and ask if there are public comments on item 3.1. Yes, I see two hands. The first comment will come from Alice, followed by Rick. Alice, I am giving you permission to speak. Can you see the courtesy timer? Yes, thank you. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Thank you. My name is Alice Lynn. I live in Southwest, near Southwest Community Park. And first of all, thank you very much to the chair and board for your thoughtful presentation of this and your thoughtful, smart comments on this. And thank you to Ms. Santos for your presentation. So there are a couple of things that I'd like to, general areas I'd like to comment on, which are, I've been at some of the meetings for this park in the past. And one thing that I've asked for is shade and in particular for picnic areas in the shade, picnic tables and benches in the shade, because in West Santa Rosa, one of the things I like to use parks for, the main thing is to just go for a walk and to bring a picnic lunch or dinner and eat my meal in a park rather than it inside my four walls. And there are literally no picnic tables in West Santa Rosa in the shade other than ones at Southwest Community Park that have no path to the picnic tables. You have to walk over one. So please, and I, if I make contact with Ms. Santos and find out your information, they have a lot of comments to make. I mean, if you could share that at the end. And my second comment is about designing parks with women, girls and mothers interests and safety in mind. And I encourage all of you and anyone listening to Google parks designed for women, girls and mothers. There are lots of interesting articles available. And so often it's really disturbing to see sexist patterns of park design and use. I encourage any of you to go out on the weekend to Southwest Community Park and Northwest Community Park and see how sex segregated the uses are and how women and mothers are really given short shrift in the design of, for their needs and interests. And also not just to design for these sex segregated patterns of use, but to facilitate less sex segregation of use of parks by creating things that are really of interest for women and girls to make use of them. Thank you so much. Thank you, Alice. The next comment comes from Rick, followed by Ricardo. Rick, I'm enabling your speaking permissions. When you're ready, please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Yes, my name is Rick Coates. I'm Executive Director of Forest Unlimited. And we've been involved with many of the public sessions over the last 10 years for this park, which is just a small fraction of what the community has been involved in, now for nearly a generation. I would like to commend Jen Santos for her work and you've come sort of late to this party and gotten thrown into a lot of controversy. So you've negotiated it with some skill. I think the plan has some merit, it's improved over the years. The original message of a park that was basically left in a nature state was not well received by either the county or the city. In fact, my observations were that they kept looking for public comment that would underwrite their consultants and their developers and other business interests until they finally found a few. I think that distorted the whole opinion. But let me suggest that there are a few things I have concerns with. The crosswalk, there's no mention of a crosswalk at the trail that joins with the Roseland Creek Trail on the other side of Burbank. There needs to be a crosswalk there too. The picture of logs being used in the PlayStation. Well, I run a forestry group. The idea of indoctrinating children young to think of logs as something you play on just doesn't appeal to me. Logs are what happens when you cut trees and heaven knows we are cutting too many already. The lawn portion, I still have concerns about that considering that we're in drought conditions, having to ration water and it's not going to get better with climate change. I actually aside as to his work on climate issues and I don't see this changing much. If we have a break in the drought, it's going to be with a flood. It's very unstable weather conditions. Also parking. There's plenty of parking across the street at the school. I understand your rationale, but I don't agree with it. We don't need to add more parking except for disabled and ADA compliance. Let's see. I noticed that you mentioned the bark. Bike lanes on the Burbank. Bike lanes have been shown by research. Nothing. Thank you for your comments, Rick. If you would like to speak longer, you can speak a raise your hand again and go after Ricardo. Ricardo, it's your turn to speak. I'm giving you permission to speak. Please state your name for the record. If you so choose and go ahead with your comment. Thank you. Hello everybody, my name is Ricardo Suarez. I am a rising senior now at Royal University Prep, the high school nearby. And I think that as it was mentioned, youth should be heard throughout this process. I think there's been a lack of representation from youth. So I think that maybe going into school or asking about our opinion because I recall during my sophomore year. So I guess two years ago now we wrote letters to the city council about this park, but something happened where they weren't considered. And so we felt left out of it. We also attended, some of us attended the meeting on March 2020 or I believe we attended one of the meetings at Cook Middle School and we also felt like we weren't represented enough. So I hoped for youth to be more involved in that and to be included in this process because it's ultimately benefiting us. I live in the Rosan area, so that's why I'm emphasizing on this issue. I, as far as for the park, I would hope for it to be more of a preserved park just because there are already amenities at, for instance, South With Park, which I think could be looked at and improved rather than implementing more concrete or anything like that at the Rosan Creek Community Park. Yeah, I think that was it. I would just hope for it to be, I think that as mentioned by Rick, we don't need more parking. I think the less parking the better just because there is already parking and just to keep it as natural as possible preserving our natural or our nature that is found there and that we want to keep. Right, all right, that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Ricardo. The next comment will come from Hector, followed by Rick. Hector, I am enabling your speaking permissions. Please share your name for the record if you so choose and share your comment. Great, good evening everyone. My name is Dr. Hector Eco. I'm the new superintendent for the Rosalind School District. And first of all, I just want to introduce myself and extend my invitation to collaborate with you on any given project that is mutually beneficial to both entities. And so along those lines, I want to partner with as many external partners as possible to enhance the services that we provide our students and families. So in this case, just like Ricardo, one of our amazing students commented hearing our student voices as well as some of our educators and parents would be on an ongoing basis. Great, we appreciate it. And so we would avail ourselves to make sure that if you wanted to host any such meetings in one of our schools, we would be most happy to help you with that and to get some of the community members to come and express their ideas in terms of how to work together and make sure to provide our families and students with the best services possible. And with that, I want to thank you and continue success. Thank you, Hector. The next comment comes from Rick. Rick, I've given you permission to speak. Please go ahead with your comment. Thank you for the second whack at it here. I want to identify with the last two speakers in particular. Yes, more involvement of young people. After all, they're going to be bearing the brunt of climate change and they need to have a voice in this. And two, yes, get involved with the schools as a old school teacher myself for over 30 years in elementary, high school and college. I strongly think that there needs to be more cooperation there. What I was about to say when I was ended the last time around was that the bike lanes on Burbank, because they're not protected bike lanes, will actually afford very little safety and will not encourage people to ride to the park. So if you could encourage the city to use protected bike lanes, that would be very important. There's been good research done on that and it's clear, just ordinary bike lanes do not do the job. One final comment. This is a park with predominantly with oaks in it and oaks are highly resistant to fire. More than redwoods even, which most people think are the most resistant. Oaks are amazing with respect to fire dangers. So let's keep it in the natural oak woodland as much as we possibly can. And the more trees the better, because they sequester a lot of greenhouse gases. And in terms of an ecosystem, there's a difference between a healthy tree and a healthy ecosystem. A healthy ecosystem actually has a few dead trees in it because they provide all kinds of habitat for other species, often endangered species. So I wouldn't be too quick to trim trees or to take out trees that just happen to be dead. Maybe leave a couple for the wildlife's sake. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Rick. Are there any final public comments? Alice has one more comment. Alice, I'm enabling your speaking permissions. Please state your name for the record if you so choose and provide your comment. Thank you so much. This is Alice Lannigan. I was hoping it would be okay to jump in with some specific comments. So a few things. So I would like to request that there be picnic tables and benches along the walking paths throughout the park for people who don't want to just sit in a group area but want to enjoy nature on their own and or in the more naturalistic areas of the park. And also the more benches, the more it facilitates walking because people who have limited walking abilities, I do, it's easier to walk if they're frequent benches along the way to choose from to sit on. And second, and also people who are just going to the park as just one or two people don't necessarily want to sit in a large group picnic area. They might like a bench on their own. And then next, let's see. If there can be tables and benches near the vernal pools and overlooking the creek with trash cans, that would be a nice feature. And access for children into water areas or having some sort of water feature for kids. Third, I know that redwood trees probably aren't native to that spot but redwood trees provide the deepest shade all year long. And I've noticed that people will sit on the ground under a redwood tree rather than sit at a picnic table in the sun because the sun even in the winter is so hot nowadays. And then regarding features for women, the yellow designated path that goes diagonally across the park is about twice the length of the path that goes through the north area from McMinn to Burbank Avenue. And I'm concerned about safety and access for girls and women on their bikes trying to get from one side of the park to the other that it be a direct path across the northern part of the park. And then also, is there a walking path around the turf area so that women can go on walks? A lot of women like to just walk around a picnic area. Thank you, Alice. The next comment comes from Ricardo. Ricardo, have you enabled your speaking permissions? Please go ahead with your comment. Thank you. I forgot to mention this earlier, but considering there are multiple schools surrounding this area, for instance, Rosen Elementary School, I mean, Rosen Creek right in front, you also have Rosen Accelerated Middle School, you also have Shepherd right there and the high school Rosen University Prep. I think it is best if youth have an environmental awareness, therefore keeping it as a preserved area gives us that ability to be one with nature and be involved in keeping a place healthy and environmentally aware individuals. We will become that. And so learning about those places and helping nurture that as being involved with the planning or decision making of that is important to us. So definitely involving us, but also, you know, I want to emphasize the fact that we want to keep that as a preserved environmental area. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you, Ricardo. Is there anybody else who has not made a comment that would like to speak? Seeing no additional hands, I will turn the meeting back over to Board Chair Cuant. Thank you, Emily. Mary Lou, are there any emailed public comments that were submitted prior to the meeting? And if so, is it now time to read them? Yes, Emily has those and she'll be happy to read those. Thank you. There are three email comments. The first email comment is, Dear Mary Lou Nichols, we all know that climate change is upon us, but we do not sufficiently examine how the design of urban areas amplifies the excessive heat that is increasingly upon us because of the rise of atmospheric carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Roseland and the area south of Herne Avenue can be held up as prime examples of the temperature increase that the urban heat island effect can bring upon residents in our area because we not only have an egregious lack of parks, but we also possess a remarkable lack of trees and reflective surfaces. But Roseland Creek Nature Park with its trees provides some moderation of this heat amplification. See the article below that discusses how the urban heat island increases suburban temperatures. This means that during a heat spell, parks and trees can be a life and death healing factor by moderating potential heat prostration in residents. And what we are experiencing now will only amplify in the years ahead. This is an important consideration regarding parks and open space across all of Santa Rosa, but especially in our Southwest area because we are not only seriously under parked, but also insufficiently and seriously under treat. Thank you for taking this consideration into advisement as a further rationale for maintaining natural areas in Roseland. Please include this in the proceedings of the Board of Community Services meeting as it discusses the Roseland Creek Park and the General Plan, Red Krueger. And I just want to share that the articles were provided to the Board and are part of the agenda item, but they will not be read during this comment period. The second comment, Santa Rosa Community Board of Services. Forest Unlimited formed in 1995 to protect and enhance forests and watersheds in Sonoma County. One component of our outreach is urban forestry. We have been involved in support of the Roseland neighbors in the maintenance and improvement of the properties now considered before the Board for Development. This involvement over a decade includes tree planting and repairing corridor, trail improvements and trash cleanups. I am sure Board members are aware of the significance that natural forest play in protection of water and micro climate enhancements. The benefits are also direct as places people go for serenity and scenic enjoyment. Within urban environments, this is rare and should be highly prioritized and protected. Our support for natural areas with urban settings are in line with the points made below by Dwayne DeWitt in practice. His comments will be proceeding, I mean coming after this. One, Roseland Creek Repairing Corridor needs to be restored. First and foremost, during this time of drought, no new grass or lawn or multi-use turf should be planted at any place in this proposed park during this time of extreme drought. Maybe never as we need to save this natural area instead of ruin it. Two, save the trees and plant more native species trees, coastal live oak and valley oak, California sycamore, redwoods, et cetera. Three, do not pave any of the parking areas. The existing ones have functioned as is for over 60 years. Four, allow the local residents to put in a pomo park such as my walk park in Nevada, California, done close to 50 years ago to honor the first indigenous people there. We should do the same in Roseland. Five, leave nature wherever we can to help our Roseland children have nature now and forever. Six, the article linked here is pertinent to providing natural areas in low-income urban settings, trees the critical infrastructure, low-income neighborhoods lack. Thank you, Larry Hansen, Ford president, Forest Unlimited. I'm ready for the third comment. Dear government officials, because you are a part of the forces of no, constantly discriminating against the disadvantaged, underserved, overburdened Rosland Creek neighborhood, today some new no's are requested from you. But first remember the Rosland Creek neighborhood was the lowest and worst of the human development index rankings in the 2014 Portrait of Sonoma County report and study published by the Sonoma County officials. What little Rosland Creek neighborhood natural green space there is for human rest and respite has been under constant threat of development for decades. Citizen efforts by the neighbors to save nature have always been met with no from city staff. Now let's do more no's from you today. But instead these no's from you are requested to help nature in Rosland and the Rosland Creek neighborhood. In a time of extreme drought, now lasting years, the city has again declared a water emergency and a shortage of water. The city requests all of us to cut water use by 20% minimum now. So please say no to any lawns, turf and landscaping for Rosland parks requiring the use of water beyond what nature brings with the rains when the rain returns. Make this now and forever please. The droughts also bring extreme fire danger existing now. Please say no to any kind of open flames. No barbecues, no grills, no fireworks, no smoking of any kind in all Rosland parks and especially in the Rosland Creek neighborhood and neighborhood park, as proposed by the Rosland Creek neighborhood residents years ago. In order to respect the rights of private well owners, please say no to any types of impermeable surfaces being placed in the Rosland neighborhood. This will help with groundwater recharge when rain does return to Rosland. Please say no to asphalt paving, concrete pavers and pathways. No paving is needed for the pathways as can be evidenced by unpaved Americans with Disabilities Act, compliant pathways in national parks and the local Presidio Trust land in San Francisco. The Bikeway Greenway Rosland Creek Trail should not be paved and does not need to be paved. For decades, unpaved roadways next to creeks used by the Sonoma County Water Agency have also been used as trails by Santa Rosa. Examples can be found at Santa Rosa Creek and Steel Creek as well as many others within the Santa Rosa city limits. Please say no to paving the Southwest Greenway along the Rosland Creek Bikeway Greenway Trail. Last but not least, please say no to a community park in the Rosland Creek neighborhood. Instead, designate Rosland neighborhood as a special use park area as allowed in the general plan. Then designate the 1400 Verbank Avenue land first purchased over a decade ago as Pomo Park, a neighborhood park to honor our local Rosland Pomo Indians. I'm almost done. Many Pomos grew up in Rosland and over a decade ago, many Rosland residents asked for this park to have an interpretive Pomo Village component. To ignore this request saying other Pomos from outside Rosland want something else wrong. Local Pomos and Rosland say this is racist towards them. Please ignore requests from what they say is the white quote white man's tribe with the casino and runner park. Please say no to racism. Sincerely Dwayne DeWitt. That concludes the public email comments. Thank you, Emily. And I'd like to three hours into this, I would like to thank the members of the public who stuck around. And also for the board members, this is the meat of what we do on the board community services is interpret what staff has put together, listen to the public and encourage more members of the public to participate in our parks. And having said that, we are now tasked with the decision as to whether or not to recommend the Rosland community park master plan as it has been sent to us to send it forward to city council for their review and approval. Would anyone on the board of community services like to present a motion in that regard? Steven, you have your hand up. Is that for this? Yes, two things. I think it's quite admirable to allow the community to have more than three minutes. Sometimes it takes a little bit more than three minutes to make an important point. And we gave the last community person the opportunity to have a little bit more than three minutes. So, you know, good for everybody on that. And then I will just restate at the appropriate time and thank you and forgiveness for my premature motion. But I will now move that the board of community services recommend that the city council approves the proposed Rosland Creek Community Park Master Plan as presented today. I'll second it. I hate you too, Logan. It's a rush to the goodness. Can we get a roll call vote please? Yes, please respond with aye or nay when I call your name. Chair Cuant. Yes. Board member Pitts. Yes. Board member Spence. Yes. Board member Spillman. Yes. And board member Van Helsema. Yes. The motion carries with five ayes and zero nays. Congratulations. Great. I would love to say board that our work is done, but it is not. We are now tasks in my opinion with taking this great knowledge base that we have learned over the past several years, over the past three hours and share it with our city council person so that when this item comes before them later this year, they go in with a position of knowledge. I'm not telling, asking you to tell them what to do, but I am strongly suggesting that you take your city council person by the hand and say we are going on a walk and that this is important. Staff is going to provide us with 11 by 17 color maps to have in our hands so that when we take our city council person on this very important walk, we can reference to things and where they're going to be. We can walk from that parking lot to the picnic grounds. We can further our own understanding and really make our representatives more aware of what's going on, possibly not in their backyard, but in our community. And if you're not comfortable or can't do that, I for one, I will take somebody else. I'm definitely taking my city council person, but if you're not in a position to do that, I for one will volunteer to do double duty. Perhaps other people would as well, but we really want to encourage, in my opinion, our city council people to be more than slideshow presentation participants in this new park. And with that, I don't know if anyone wants to comment on that, but with that, thank you all. I'll just say we've done good work for the community. I hope we've done good work for the community that will benefit from this park. It's a really a quality of life vote that we had today. And hopefully the community will embrace it and the city council members will wholeheartedly approve it. And Chair Kwan, I just wanted to chime in. I'm looking for my list of folks, but if we have members of the community still attending, you can always contact Recreation of Parks to get a hold of me, but it's Jay Santos at SRCity.org or 707-543-3402. 3781, if you'd like to get in touch with me, I know there's a member of the community that wanted some contact info. That's all I have, thank you. Thanks, Jen. I need to do a special announcement that beginning at our next regular meeting, which is less than a week from now, if it's four o'clock a week from now, any correspondence submitted prior to the start of the meeting will no longer be read during the meeting due to time constraints. All correspondence will be provided to us as board members and attached to the agenda prior to the meeting for reference. Late correspondence received after the submission deadline will be attached to the agenda up to one week after the meeting for which it is submitted. And with that, there's gonna be a move to adjourn and stick around though, there's a bit of paperwork we have to do, paperwork. Would anyone care to move to adjourn? Don't all say it once. Move to adjourn, chair. Second. Third, fourth, and fifth. Can we, let's go through the motions. Can we take a roll call, please? Eight. Yes. Yes, yes. So with that at 737 in the PM, I call this meeting of the Board of Community Services that has addressed for us in Creek Community Park to a close and remind everybody that we're gonna be back here at four o'clock next Wednesday. And I want everyone to come up with a really good argument and possibly bribes for us to be able to meet in real life come August. So, sharpen your sticks on that one and see you all virtually in a week. Carol, thank you for your leadership, Jen. Thank you for everything that you've done. That was phenomenal insights and presentation, really great job. Thanks everyone. Thanks not. Good job. Bye bye.