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Meeting Summary
1. Welcome and Introductions
City of Chelan Mayor Mike Cooney welcomed a full room of participants. He mentioned that the Lake Chelan Community Open Space Vision has received funding from the State, Icicle Fund, and City of Chelan. Mayor Cooney noted that he wanted to “get on top of open space before it is gone.” He also discussed the importance of a developing a plan that will be implemented and that will get something done.
2. Overview of Community Open Space Vision Process
Amy Morris and Mitchel Hannon from The Trust for Public Land provided an overview of the Community Open Space Vision Process (see attached meeting slides for more detail). The objectives of the process are to: (1) Determine community priorities for voluntary conservation and recreation planning; (2) Help protect unique local natural and recreational resources; and (3) Build community support for protecting local recreational resources and open space.
The Open Space Vision will combine community input with best available data. The process relies on voluntary, market‐based tools to implement; it is not regulatory. The Open Space Vision involves gathering and analyzing community input (interviews, speak outs, community survey, community meetings), collecting data and developing GIS models, weighting criteria and goals based on local input, mapping community priorities, and developing an action plan. The GIS team translates regional community values into objective metrics.
The Trust for Public Land and other partners are asking community members (stakeholders) to participate in three more meetings over the next year. They are also recruiting a local “technical advisory team” (TAT) to assist with mapping (reviewing data and preliminary results).
3. Review of Preliminary Outreach Results
Amy then reviewed the preliminary results of the community survey and speak outs (interactive tabling and poster activities at community events). There were 527 survey responses and 409 participants in the speak outs for a total of 936 responses. This is a great level of participation from a relatively small community. Here are some key findings (see more in attached meeting slides): Demographics (survey only): 75% of responses from residents (primary or second home), 25% from visitors; 64% women; 93% white, non‐Hispanic; 77% have no children under 18 in household
Community is very active! In the lake: 93% swimming, 65% boating. In addition, 83% walk/hike for recreation and 74% for fitness.
Uncertainty about trail locations: 40% don’t use trails more because they are unsure where they are Major concern about lake access: 57% think public access to the lake is not adequate; only 22% think it is adequate
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6. Goal and Criteria Workshop
Amy gave participants instructions for the goal and criteria workshop. There were four “stations” for discussion of the four Open Space Vision goals. Each goal had a facilitator: David Morgan (Water Quality), Amy Morris (Agriculture), Guy Evans (Recreation), Mitchel Hannon (Wildlife). Participants were asked to go to two of the four stations. They spent 10 minutes at each. Facilitators asked participants to brainstorm ideas for criteria that could help define each goal and any data sources associated with the criteria. At the end of the meeting, attendees were asked to vote for their top 3 priority criteria under each goal. Pink = top priority. Orange = 2nd priority. Green = 3rd priority. The results of this exercise are included in the attachments.
7. Guiding Principles and Vision Exercise
Amy reviewed the purpose of this exercise and introduced some examples of Vision Statements and Guiding Principles for conservation plans (see attaching meeting slides). Guiding principles are beliefs and philosophy intended to guide us toward our mission and vision. The principles should reflect why and how we create the Community Open Space Vision. They should be simple, cohesive, and consensus‐based. A vision statement is an aspirational statement about what we want to see at the end of this process—once the Community Open Space Vision is implemented. It should be a catalyst that communications purpose and values.
Participants were asked to focus on filling out a worksheet related to either guiding principles or developing a vision statement. They spent 5‐10 minutes independently filling out their chosen worksheet. Then they discussed what they had written in pairs for an additional 3‐5 minutes. Before turning in their worksheet, participants were asked to put a star by 1‐2 elements of their guiding principles or vision statement that they believe are most important. Draft vision statements and guiding principles based on meeting input are attached. Communications volunteers (Guy, Barry, Marilyn, and Connie) will help revise these drafts before the next community meeting.
8. Closing
Amy thanked the group very much for their engagement and enthusiasm. She also reviewed the next steps below.
Next Steps We need recommendations and volunteers for technical advisory team (TAT) as soon as possible. Please contact Amy ([email protected]) or Mitchel ([email protected]). Current volunteers for the TAT are: Karen Sargeant, Tim Hollingsworth, Ken Dull, Coron Polley, and Paul Willard.
Amy/TPL will work with volunteers to revise vision statement and guiding principles options Amy/TPL to continue local interviews Mitch/TPL to begin collecting data for maps (with TAT help) TPL to develop draft goal maps Next community meeting will be in late January 2017. Exact date/time/location will be announced soon.
Attachments Goal and Criteria Workshop Results Study Area Map Map Exercise Summary Map
Vision and Guiding Principles Drafts Meeting Slides
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Goal and Criteria Workshop Results
Table 1. Water Quality Input from Community Meeting
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Reduce non-point source pollution1 5 8 6 11.0
Maintain water quality 8 4 3 11.0
Control nutrients 5 3 6 8.5
Remove invasive species (including milfoil) 3 6 5 7.7
Reduce litter 0 1 1 0.8
Improve water quality in Roses Lake, Dry Lake, Wapato, and Chelan 0 0 0 0
Table 2. Recreation Access (Trails, Parks, Lakes) Input from Community Meeting
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Increase access to the lake (free, open to everyone + amenities) 7 4 3 10.0
Create more access to the Butte (legal routes, Elephant's Head) 7 0 2 7.7
Develop Three Fingers Park 4 4 4 7.3
Increase free access for all 5 0 0 5.0
Evaluate and protect potential public access points 1 3 1 2.8
Create connections from downtown to foothills 0 2 2 1.7
Create Box Canyon Trail and other 25-mile creek trails 1 0 0 1.0
Create hut to Hut from Echo Ridge 0 0 0 0.0
Create connections to key destinations2 0 0 0 0.0
ACTION PLAN IDEAS
Increase awareness of established foothills trails (clearly defined, legal) 3 4 2 5.7
Improve people movement to: trails/lake, parking, shuttles, bike trails to location
1 5 3 4.5
Increase awareness about opportunities for outdoor recreation 0 3 2 2.2
Designate area for leash dog park on lake 1 0 1 1.3
Increase awareness of lake access points (where they are located & navigating conflicts)
0 1 2 1.2
Scale up trail development to match use 0 1 2 1.2
Designate trail over old Chelan Falls Bridge 0 2 0 1.0
Educate private landowners about the benefits of allowing trail access 0 0 2 0.7
Key measure increase in lake access (Astoria) along with development of area (dock, parking)
0 0 2 0.7
Educate users and landowners about trail use (etiquette, liabilities) 0 0 1 0.3
1 Sedimentation, suspended solids, biological oxygen demand, agricultural runoff, petroleum and solvents 2 Gorge, State Park, First Creek to Stormy, Deer Mountain, South Shore, North Shore, Echo Ridge to Antilon Lake
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Create easements to public land away from lake 0 0 1 0.3
Create a map showing public access, trails, etc. 0 0 0 0
Pedestrian Bridge over old Bebee Bridge Towers 0 0 0 0
Obtain funding to increase purchase of land and/or gain easements 0 0 0 0
Clearly define areas for different types of trail uses to encourage stewardship and decrease conflicts
0 0 0 0
Table 3. Wildlife Habitat Input from Community Meeting
ELEMENT/CRITERIA 1st 2nd 3rd Weighted
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Balance recreation vs. wildlife vs. habitat on the Butte 9 4 4 12.3
Protect highly diverse forests / healthy ecosystems 5 6 5 9.7
Protect bald Eagle / Osprey / Owls nest buffers 5 2 3 7.0
Protect native Plants existing and regenerated 4 3 3 6.5
Minimize impacts from invasive plants 1 8 2 5.7
Protect big horn sheep / ungulate movement 2 2 4 4.3
Protect fisheries / streams 0 1 4 1.8
Table 4. Protection of Working Lands Input from Community Meeting
ELEMENT/CRITERIA 1st 2nd 3rd weighted
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Protect working lands with water availability (water rights) 3 1 6 5.5
Protect areas with less slope 0 1 0 0.5
Protect views of agricultural landscapes 0 0 1 0.3
Reduce runoff from farms 0 0 0 0.0
Protect high quality agricultural soils 0 0 0 0.0
Protect variety of agriculture types (commercial, hobby, pasture, orchard, vineyard)
0 0 0 0.0
ACTION PLAN IDEAS
Create funding for agricultural conservation easements 7 6 1 10.3
Encourage sustainable farming practices (integrated, co-planting, crop rotation)
3 3 3 5.5
Housing not affordable for labor / hard to find labor 3 0 1 3.3
Improve marketing of local agriculture and agricultural tourism 1 3 1 2.8
Educate about right-to-farm laws 1 2 2 2.7
Create tax incentives and stewardship payments to help farmers 0 2 1 1.3
Build community gardens 0 0 1 0.3
Reduce regulation of farming and farm labor 0 0 0 0
Use agricultural zoning to protect farmland 0 0 0 0
Focus on markets and agricultural economics 0 0 0 0
Build relationships with Future Farmers/4H/Farm to Table 0 0 0 0
Make it more difficult to subdivide working lands and sell for housing 0 0 0 0
Encourage younger generation to stay in farming 0 0 0 0
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Table 4. Protection of Working Lands Input from Community Meeting
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Encourage growing marijuana/hemp 0 0 0 0
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Meeting Slides
Lake Chelan Open Space
Vision
October 2016
• City of Chelan
• Lake Chelan Trails Alliance
• Chelan-Douglas Land Trust
• The Trust for Public Land
Conveners
1. INTRODUCE. Introduce the Community Open Space Vision Process
2. GATHER INPUT. Begin discussing vision, guiding principles, and conservation/recreation priorities
3. RECRUIT PARTICIPANTS. Gather names for additional stakeholders, identify preliminary technical advisory team
Meeting Goals
10/28/2016
• Welcome and Introductions
• Overview of Meeting Goals
• Community Open Space Vision Process
• Review of Preliminary Community Survey Results
• Presentation of Community Ideas (rapid fire)
• Map Exercise
• Goal and Criteria Workshop
• Guiding Principles and Vision Exercise
• Next Steps and Closing
Agenda
Community Open Space Vision
• Combine community input with state-of-the-art mapping and modeling and the best available data
• Provide a set of tools to guide land conservation and recreation planning
• Identify opportunities to meet multiple goals
• Prioritize areas for voluntary, market-based conservation
• Map land use prohibitions
• Be determined by one (or just a few) perspectives
• Be limited to protecting wildlife
• Involve condemning or taking land/private property
• Start from scratch. It will build on the PROS plan and the Lake Chelan Valley Public Trails Comprehensive Plan.
Will: Will NOT:
Community Open Space Vision Objectives
• Determine community priorities for voluntary conservation and recreation planning
• Help protect unique local natural and recreational resources
• Build community support for protecting local recreational resources and open space
How do you create an Open Space Vision?
Open Space Vision Steps
1. Get community input (interviews, speak outs, community survey, stakeholder meetings)
2. Analyze community input
3. Collect data related to open space goals and translate data into GIS models
4. Weight criteria and goals based on community input
5. Create maps that reflect community priorities
6. Develop an implementation plan
7. Prepare a report that includes maps, community priorities, and action steps
10/28/2016
Conveners
Stakeholders
Interviews
Polling + Speak Outs
Community Involvement
Role of Stakeholders
• Help us gather best possible community input
• Help with outreach
• Identify and review draft conservation goals
• Provide guidance to a Technical Advisory Team on the Open Space Vision maps
• Vote on final map weighting
• Help develop an action plan
• Time commitment: 3-4 more meetings over the next 9-12 months
• Translates regional values into objective metrics.
• Reflects community’s vision and unique open space resources.
• Offers a unique blend of science and preference.
Open Space Vision Analysis and Mapping
Analysis and Mapping Approach
Develop information that can be acted on: rank areas/parcels by how well they meet vision goals
• Goal: Overall community value related to open space– For example: Protect traditional agricultural lands
• Criteria: Location-specific characteristic that is measurable and mappable– For example: Irrigated parcels between 0.5 and 20 acres in
size
Steep Stream Banks
Erodible Soils
Steep Slopes
Canopy Cover
Native Vegetation
Floodplains and BuffersRiparian Vegetation Wetlands
Example Goal and Criteria
Role of the Technical Advisory Team (TAT)
Provide expert review and advice regarding design, data input, rationale, outcomes, and mapping.
Responsibilities:• Participate in TAT meetings (by phone/computer)• Verify the completeness and appropriateness of
analysis methodology• Recommend best available data sources• Help ensure that defensible science is used for all
models and assumptions• Review input data and model results for accuracy and
currency• Determine relative importance of each criteria
• 527 community responses + 409 speak out responses = 936 total responses
• 75% of responses from residents (primary or second home), 25% from visitors
• 64% women
• 93% white, non-Hispanic
• 77% have no children under 18 in household
Outreach Results
• Active community!
• Lake recreation: 93% swimming, 65% boating
• 83% walk/hike for recreation and 74% for fitness– 40% don’t use trails more because they are unsure where
they are
• 81% bike for recreation and 63% for fitness
• 57% think public access to the lake is not adequate; only 22% think it is adequate
Outreach Results – Outdoor Activities
What do you love most about the Lake Chelan area?
Biggest Concerns
Areas with Special Meaning
Areas for More Trail Access
Priorities for Lake Chelan Area
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Protecting water quality
Increasing recreational access to the lake
Protecting wildlife habitat
Preserving agricultural land
Promoting community health through accessible trails and parks
Protecting forests
Protecting iconic views
Increasing recreational access in the foothills
Increasing connectivity of protected lands
Priorities for Lake Chelan Area (survey and speak out results)
Unweighted Weighted
1. Protect water quality (559, 682)
2. Promote community health through increasing access to trails, parks, and the lake (333, 599)
3. Protect wildlife habitat (168, 308)
4. Preserve agricultural land (166, 302)
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Open Space Vision Goals
Stretch Break!
1. Erin McCardle – Year-round recreation plaza
2. Gary Sterner – Road end lakeshore access
3. Karen Sargeant – Don Morse concert venue
4. Philip Long – Water quality
5. Guy Evans – Trails
Presentation of Community Ideas (rapid fire)
• Unmarked Public ROW leading to the lake has been an issue for years. Not the first time.
• It’s a big deal that the Chelan County Commissioners decided to survey a few of the Public Access points to the lake in the Manson area. South Harris Street, Quetilquasoon Road, Hyacinth Road and others have been surveyed and marked.
• There are probably nine public access points in the Manson area.• Chelan County is not ready to use the surveyed and marked access points for
public recreation until safety and maintenance issues are resolved.• Interested parties in the Manson area include the County Commissioners, the
County Public Works, the Manson Parks and Parks Board, The Manson Community Council, the public and the private land owners.
• The City of Chelan draft version of Appendix C: City of Chelan Shoreline Public Access Plan, dated July 2016, identifies three access points and the plans to develop two of them. The sites with plans are the end of Dietrich Road and Water Street/Green Dock. The other site is the end of Park Street.
• In summary, there are potential public access points to Lake Chelan for recreation, there a number of interested parties with varied concerns, and there is a lack of money to develop the sites. We could use some help.
Lake Access – Gary Sterner
Lake Chelan Community Open Space Vision: Water
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Phil LongLake Chelan Research Institute
Lake Chelan Community Open Space Vision: Water
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Phil LongLake Chelan Research Institute
• Open space matters to water quality
Lake Chelan Community Open Space Vision: Water
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Phil LongLake Chelan Research Institute
• Open space matters to water quality• We are ultimately responsible for what goes into the
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Lake Chelan Community Open Space Vision: Water
Quality
Phil LongLake Chelan Research Institute
• Open space matters to water quality• We are ultimately responsible for what goes into the
lake• We need to know what controls water clarity
Open Space Matters: Urbanization increases the variety and amount of pollutants carried into streams, rivers, and lakes
• Nutrients from soil/rock, animal waste and failing septic systems
• Agricultural runoff
• Oil, grease, and toxic chemicals from motor vehicles
• Road salts
• Heavy metals from roof shingles, motor vehicles, and other sources
• Sediment
Modified from: EPA 841-F-03-003
We are ultimately responsible:Past practices have impacted lake sediments, and local streams Contaminants—Proposed 303(d) List for
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Fish Tissue
WaterKEY:
Copper (Arsenic listed earlier)Railroad Creek
We need to know what controls lake water clarity:Frequent monitoring needed!!!
8-year gap 6-year gap 9-year gap
We need to know what controls lake water clarity: How far are we from a harmful algal bloom?
UltraoligotrophicOligotrophicMesotrophicEutrophicHypereutrophic
IncreasingC, N, P
• Where do you live?
• Where do you work?
• Where do you spend time outdoors?
• What do you want to protect?
• What do you want to connect?
Map Exercise
10/28/2016
• What are the important elements/criteria that will help define each goal?
• What data sources are associated with each element/criteria?
1. Pink = top priority
2. Orange = 2nd priority
3. Green = 3rd priority
Goal and Criteria Workshop
10/28/2016
• Beliefs and philosophy
• Guide you toward mission and vision
• Why and how we create the Community Open Space Plan
• Cohesive set of beliefs – around which there is consensus
• Keep it simple
Guiding Principles
• Local Values. Efforts to enhance conservation in our communities must be based on our local values.
• Agriculture and Timber. Local residents value our agricultural and forestry heritage. We encourage conservation efforts aimed at protecting agricultural and timber industries.
• Multiple Benefits, Multiple Uses. Conserved lands may serve multiple purposes. For example, protected agricultural and timber harvesting areas can provide economic benefits, open space, and habitat.
• Economic Opportunity. Surrounding beauty, recreational opportunities and open spaces all play a vital role in making the Greater Sandpoint area a desirable place to live and work—attracting and retaining job creators far beyond the tourist or extraction economy.
• Conservation is Voluntary. Greenprint partners only support voluntary, incentive-based conservation efforts.
• We Respect Private Property Rights.
Guiding Principles Example (Sandpoint)
10/28/2016
• Aspirational statement about what we want to see at the end of this process (when priority areas are protected and connected)
• A catalyst that communicates purpose and values
Oxfam: A just world without poverty
Habitat for Humanity: A world where everyone has a decent place to live.
The Nature Conservancy: Our vision is to leave a sustainable world for future generations.
Vision Statement
• Choose to focus on either guiding principles OR developing a vision statement
• Fill out worksheet
• Discuss in pairs
• Put a star by two elements you think are most important
• You can fill out the other worksheet after the meeting if you’d like
Principles and Vision Exercise
10/28/2016
1. Designate technical advisory team (TAT)
2. Finish developing vision statement and guiding principles (need volunteers)
3. Finish interviews (TPL)
4. Begin collecting data for maps (GIS team with TAT help)
5. Develop draft goal maps (TPL)
6. Next meeting: January 2017
Next Steps
Amy Wilson MorrisConservation Vision Program ManagerThe Trust for Public [email protected]
Thank you!
Mitchel HannonGIS Project ManagerThe Trust for Public [email protected]