Sponsors

Small Group Work Session

Team W

• Opportunity for landowners to buy land back
• Possible Park Department use
  • How to police uses
  • Access
  • more land taking?
  • What is being developed
• Creation of Cultural center with local Management
• Impact of any development on Wildlife and landowners
• Educating our children to opportunities and possible barriers
• Proper protection of adjoining property
• Money?
• Accessibility of use of property balance multi-use of property
• Floodplan

Team X

• Ownership issue - Legal status
• How to best use land for common good
• Balance divergent human interest
• Balance different opinions about stewardship
• Evaluate land use capability
• How to balance human desires with natural environment
• Future positive and negative impacts
• How to balance multi-use while preserving natural integrity of land

• Goal oriented
• Multi-use
• Responsible stewardship
• Holistic
• Sustainable
• To balance multi-use while conserving natural integrity of land
• Provide a conceptual holistic management plan that provides goal oriented, sustainable responsible action for multiple land use

• To create a "Land and Man Center" that would serve as an umbrella management entity
• 100 year Flood Plan corridor receives special management
• Research education and demonstration (Historical and future relationship of human and land)
• Park area to be managed low impact
• Watershed management to minimize the effect of human on water quality
• How to minimize fragmentation as it relates to wildlife population and other utilizations
• Water quality surface and ground (Rural and Urban Corridors)
• Flood Plain management
• Utilities/Development pressure
• Defining the land use control mechanisms necessary to implement our Vision
• Educational uses
• Impacts of economic development

Team Y

• Importance of protection of natural resources
• Importance of economic stability
• Preservation of Archeological/Cultural/Historical resources
• Re-establish community
• Public benefity
• Recreational opportunities
• Local control and protection of rural character of area
• Education and interpretation of Cultural/Historical/Natural resources
• Cooperation between public and private interests
• Commitment by SAWS to maximize public benefit
• Positive public relations for property disposal
• Attention by SAWS on the "Healing Process" between land owners and community and SAWS/City
• That process be accomplished as soon as possible with implementation time line
• Develop deed restrictions and other protective measures

Team Z

• Conflicting goals between stake holder groups and SAWS
• Philosophical differences between landowners and larger community
• Legal conflicts
• Financial issues
• Preservation
• Restoration
• Maintenance of property
• Limits to land use flood plain vs. Upland

• Continuous usage along river
• Limited access at key points along river
• Core Area - Buffer Zone along river
• Core Area - Non disruptive uses along river
  • Agricultural
  • Natural habitat/creeks
  • Residential away from river
  • Park lands
  • Water quality
  • Appropriate recreation
• Maintain historical heritage
• View Medina River in it's entirety
• Wildlife/Natural values/Water quality
• Reclamation of former crop land, native grasses, vegetation
• Conflict between agriculture and wildlife?
• Disruption and neglect of land
• "Insurmountable Opportunity"
• Manage the land - educational
• Identify impact of different land uses
• Sell back to original property owners if land-locked
• A need for overall Managing entity?
  • All Parcels
  • Re-parcelization
  • Strategic parcels
• Re-parcelization
  • With deed restrictions
  • Natural conservation easements
  • Performance - based