Building_development + Forests_green_space

1:09:05 is a big surprise right next to the fairgrounds. So it's southeast of the fairgrounds. So this is, as I mentioned, it's a PIF 10 acquisition. It helps us accomplish our level of service goals established in the current adopted pros plan. It will improve the usable acreage of the existing park, and it will provide us with the opportunity to make improved connectivity between fairgrounds park. The county fairgrounds, actually, which we don't have a connection to currently, a formal connection, and to Whipple Creek Regional Park. So it gets us to the corner of 111th and 164th so we could have an at grade crossing at the intersection to capitalize on the frontage improvements that were recently

1:10:03 put in by the developer who recently developed a subdivision there near Whipple Creek Park. We'd like to make that connection to sort of accommodate an ever-growing use of those two community assets. As you know, the neighborhoods around there are developing quickly, and we plan on revisiting the master plan for fairgrounds park in 2029. In the current adopted capital improvement plan, we had an improvement planned for 2032, but we'll be pushing that out a year for staffing reasons and maintenance capacity concerns. If you go to the next slide and sort of zoom in of this map, shows the location of the park and our existing public properties.

1:11:02 And again, it just gets us down to that corner. It makes the parcel more usable. And this is not unlike the Edmonds acquisition, which we brought to you last month, where we're just focusing on PIF acquisitions that are proximate to existing properties at this time. So the-- I have a quick question while you're on the map. So that riparian area there, is that where the trail goes through there? So the area to the west of 111th that's treed is actually an open space. It's owned by that developer that developed that subdivision. So this is an old area. There are actually homes being constructed there as we speak. And so there is a potential to make that connection there, but we haven't entered into any sort of a trail easement with the conversation. And the Ross Hoover Parks and Nature.

1:12:01 So great question. So this acquisition creates an opportunity to connect to that greenway in the future through future discussions with that developer because of the intersection, because this property is on the intersection and which would avoid a mid-block crossing on this road. You'll also see just north of the development, that easement. David, I don't know if you want to highlight that. Yeah, there's a real thin green line that wraps around that existing home just north of the plat map. That's actually an access easement that we acquired, I think, two years ago. Actually, Danielle Kelly negotiated that to provide access to Whipple Creek Regional Park for that neighborhood. And the frontage improvements are made all the way up there. So we can cross at the intersection,

1:12:57 and we can use the sidewalk to make the connection to that access point to Whipple Creek Park. We've received a lot of feedback, as you likely know, Chair Marshall, from the equestrian community about parking issues at Whipple Creek Regional Park. And sort of the long-term hope is that we can use the undeveloped part of the west side of Fairgrounds Community Park to maybe make some improvements that are more focused on walkers, hikers, bird watchers, and they can make that connection using those improvements and reduce the pressure on the equestrian parking over at Whipple Creek Park. OK, so there is a connection on the northern edge and then