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LAKE OSWEGO
PARKS PLAN 2040
COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE
MEETING #2
Date: December 12, 2023
Time: 5:30-7:30 PM
Location: Lake Oswego Maintenance Building, Willow Room 17601 Pilkington Road
Virtual Recording Link: https://www.ci.oswego.or.us/parks-plan-2040/parks-plan-2040-
project-documents
ATTENDEES
City of Lake Oswego - Kyra Haggart, Ivan Anderholm, Jeff Munro, Jan Wirtz, Brenda
Falson, Tony Garcia, Robin Krakauer, Kelly Bird
MIG - Matt Hastie, Lauren Scott
Community Advisory Committee (CAC) Members - Whiteney Taylor, James Meier, Betty
Holladay, Emily Frey, Kara Orvieto Ashley, Denee Kroeger, Patrick Guiterrez, Meg
Matsushima, Kent Watson, Teresa Bianco, Sarah Ellison, Julie Haddad, Matt McGinnis,
Aaron Hollingshead
Public - None in Attendance
DISCUSSION
1. What questions and/or comments do you have about the community outreach conducted this
far?
• Is the size of the words in the word cloud proportionate?
o Word clouds generated from long form responses which were not
required questions.
• Are the word clouds from the statistically valid survey or community survey?
o Generated from both surveys.
• Do you have an estimated number of responses to the write in question?
o Data can be provided following the meeting by Staff.
• In the survey, support for providing financial help for low income families to
access programs was tied to increasing rates for others. A comment heard by a
CAC member was that a respondent knows what to choose because cost was an
issue for them but they would generally support programs for financial
assistance.
o The survey did also ask if cost was a barrier.
• Heard at the community event that the trail connection between Foothills and
George Rogers was important.
• Watershed Councils were included in a focus group.
• Statistically valid survey could track demographics, and DHM did provide cross-
tabulation for survey results
• Interested in further cross-tabulating results from seniors, low income, and
disabled respondents.
• Braille on park signs could help address accessibility barriers and be more
inclusive.
• Did the focus groups address other sports activities and needs? A whole focus
group was dedicated to pickleball.
o Pickleball has been ignored in the past and it has been a goal for Parks
Plan 2040 to address a solution
• Water access includes Swim Park (Lake), Tryon Cove, Canal Acres, George Rogers,
Riverrun (River)
2. What questions and/or comments do you have about the preliminary draft strategic
framework?
• Goal 1: Access to essential services
o Focus on filling gaps seems to prioritize adding to existing parks over
adding new park land.
o Do we know where we are today in providing parks within a 10-minute
walk?
■ This will be part of the access mapping.
o Do we know where historically underrepresented populations exist?
• Goal 2: Invest in parks, natural areas, and recreation facilities
o Are partnerships supposed to be internal or external to Lake Oswego?
o Objective "a" could be reworded for a bit more clarity?
o Does the City have a program for replacement and maintenance for
facilities like playgrounds?
■ Yes, City has several programs for maintenance and replacement at
the end of a facilities life.
o Inclusive play refers to both playgrounds and individual
equipment/elements.
o Include indigenous history and recognition of indigenous people in parks
(George Rogers).
■ Include the Grand Ronde Tribe. City noted it already involves them
in capital projects.
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• Goal 3: Serve all ages and abilities
o Objective 'a': There is an ADA transition plan that the plan will continue to
support and implement.
o Keep in mind that inclusive shouldn't be boring (and that includes for
senior populations).
o Objective 'd': website is very specific, maybe make it inclusive of other
media platforms and other ways the City distributes information. An app
or mobile friendly website would be great.
o Important to have access to information about trailheads onsite.
• Goal 4: Stewardship, maintenance, and operations
o Objective 'h': Planting native species may not be possible with climate
change, potentially remove this one for overlap with Goal 5 or edit to
reflect that native species will have their limitations.
• Goal 5: A sustainable and resilient system
o Part of the City mandates that electric vehicle charging must go in when
infrastructure is improved, could bolster language to implementing other
City Plans
o Make sure app or website includes the community resiliency hubs (LORAC
and others).
o Could we add one about habitat connectivity, maybe modify objective 'h'?
• Goal 6: A connected system
o Trails app could fall under this.
o Would this plan address design for bike and pedestrian pathways?
o Opportunity with this plan to give the department influence in advocating
for trails and pathways.
o What is the ABA?
■ It's part of title I of the ADA and talks about the non-built
environment.
• Goal 7: Community partnerships and engagement
o Customer Excellence Program is the survey follow up.
o Appropriate to add HOAs and neighborhood associations in list of groups
to coordinate with.
o Operationally the city is connected with elected leaders,
maintenance/operations, and students but room for continued
improvement.
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3. What questions and/or comments do you have about the revised park classification system?
• Does undeveloped open space always have to stay that way?
4. What questions and/or comments do you have about the proposed methodology for
evaluating park access?
• Approve of adding trail-based recreation as an essential service.
• Approve of potential equity indicators selected.
Next Steps
The next meeting will focus on the Needs Assessment and will likely occur in mid to late
February.
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