INDEX:
Common Ground Elements
Common Ground Elements were identified by each of the four re-mixed groups as areas in which there was general agreement among all the groups. Unique ideas are those which were unique to one of the four original groups and were generally considered to be a desirable and compatible additions to the common elements.
Group 1
Common Elements
- Sell back to original land owners with deed restrictions
- Preservation of flood plain area
- Preservation/restoration and adaptive reuse of Watson House
- Local Control of easements
- Wildlife management of adjacent areas to the corridor by group of Government, Local, State, and Regional
- Maximize educational opportunities
- Public park with emphasis on passive recreation with adequate police
- Public access to river
Unique Ideas - Compatible with Common Elements
- View Medina River as a whole
- Concentrating recreation activities along Watson Road
- Epochs of agricultural use
- "Healing Process" - Move Quickly
- Specific uses canoe, horseback., bike and hike
Group 2
Common Elements
Unique Ideas -Compatible with Common Ground Elements
- Healing Process
- Restrict pesticides, chemical use, etc…
- Grassland management
- Vegetation restoration
- Wildlife management
- Holistic management
- Controlled trail system (canoe, kayak, hiking, equestrian)
- Performance based restrictions
- Watershed protection and demonstration site
- Outdoor theater
- Historic ranching/farming demonstration site
- Protect shallow wells
Group 3
Common Elements
- Cultural resource center
- River corridor (flood plain, bottom lands)
- Park on West side
- Conservation easements
- Wildlife management
- Right of first refusal
- Local involvement
- Police public access
- Qualified sales
Unique Ideas -Compatible with Common Ground Elements
- Applying conservation easements beyond river corridor
- Broad based consortium (public, private including Native American)
- Team X vision
- Performance use restrictions
- Amphitheater Recreation and educational
- River access points
Group 4
Common Elements
- Maintain river corridor integrity
- Cultural Center/ local management / collaborative
- City park/ recreation/ secure access
- Return land to original owners with restrictions
- Wildlife management and conservation
- Conservation easements
- Restoration of Watson House
- Educational opportunities
- Consortium management
- Research
- Public River Access (Controlled)
- Productive use (taxable)
Unique Ideas (Compatible with Common Ground Uses)
- Demonstration areas
- Full linkage of River
- Retirement community (low density)
- Productive land/performance based
- Flexible Disposition of Land
- Wildlife management area (TPW)
- Land and Man Center
Adjustments to Common Ground Elements
(Near the end of the Charrette the participants were asked to identify elements that were discussed in the individual groups, which should be included as additions to the list of Common Elements.)- Nursery, retirement type development of less sensitive land
- Agricultural production
- Craft use area
- Active recreational where appropriate - not on sensitive areas
- Cultural Resource area open to public
- Key recognition of Indigenous Native American populations
- Balance native habitat with river use
- Manage carefully using consortium approach
- Restore damaged areas
- "A Southside Friedrich Park"