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Regular Meeting
May 8, 2019
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1. CALL TO ORDER
5:30 p.m.
2. ROLL CALL: Joe Piesman, Andrea Elson, David Tweedale, Raymond Watts, Kelly Ohlson, Mike
Weber,
3. ATTENDEES: Councilman Ross Cunniff
4. Excused: Vicky McLane, Edward Reifsnyder
NAD Staff: Mark Sears, John Stokes, Dave Myers, Heidi Wagner
5. AGENDA REVIEW
6. CITIZEN PARTICIPATION:
7. APPROVAL OF MINUTES:
Mike Weber made a motion to approve the April LCSB Minutes.
Andrea Elson seconded the motion. The motion was approved 7-0
8. COMMUNICATION AND BOARD MATTERS
9. NEW BUSINESS
DISCUSSION ITEM
Impact and Decision Framework Heidi Wagner
John introduced Heidi Wagner, as the new Senior Environmental Planner. Her background includes
environmental planning in land use, building design and construction and general planning. With the
increase in visitor use in our natural areas, John asked Heidi to address the challenges with not only
growth and visitor use but opportunities for improvement when developing our Master Plans. With
increasing visitor use and future growth needs NAD needed to formulate a plan to address the trends.
John explained how Jeffco, the City of Boulder and Boulder County are experiencing increased visitor
use well beyond what we are seeing here in Fort Collins. John feels NAD needs to set in motion plans to
prepare for the same.
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Heidi described the growth potential and expectations for the City of Fort Collins. Everyone wants
more access and opportunities in natural areas. With the increase in demand for recreation the
difficult task of maintaining conservation while servicing a growing need for recreation NAD needed to
adopt a plan to assist in those efforts. Heidi introduced the Impact Decision Framework (IDF). The IDF,
she explained, was originally created by the Interagency Visitor Use Management Council consisting of
6 federal agencies, in an effort to manage visitor use in our lands. After many meetings with staff and
several discussions, the IDF was adopted as a tool that NAD would use for decision making when it
comes to our natural areas in terms of things like trails, restoration, recreation and conservation. Heidi
explained an internal committee came together to reflect on the framework and began adjusting the
categories and questions relevant to NAD. Heidi mentioned the IDF has been sampled already with a
handful of NAD scenarios.
Board members agreed the IDF was an appropriate tool for transparency and decision making for the
Department. Ray suggested adding one more question to the framework to address environmental
metrics to assist in future ecological analysis.
The History of Land Conservation Mark Sears
Dave Myers distributed spreadsheets with land conservation data from 1992 to current. The three
major classifications of land purchases are local, community separators and regional. The spreadsheets
describe funds spent for each of those classifications over the years.
Board members reviewed the spreadsheets and had an opportunity to ask questions and make
comments.
10. OTHER BUSINESS
No other business.
11. EXECUTIVE SESSION
The Board went into Executive Session at 7:30 p.m. to discuss Real Estate Matters related to land
conservation. The Board completed Executive Session and returned to the regular meeting at 8:29
p.m.
12. ADJOURNMENT
Adjourned regular meeting at 8:30.
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