Lake Forest Park Legacy

Open House: February 11, 2008

On February 11, 2008 the Lake Forest Park Legacy task force hosted an open house to report back to the community on the 100 year vision, the 20 year projects and the six year projects. 

Click here for a copy of the entire project summary.

These boards are available for viewing at City Hall or download them here:

Click here for Board 1 (2.12 MB)

Click here for Board 2 (2.12 MB)

Click here for Board 3 (2.11 MB)

Click here for Board 4 (1.37 MB)

Participants were given a survey at the Open House. If you were unable to attend the presentation and would like to give the task force your input, it is available online:

arrow Click to take the Legacy Open House Participant Survey

From the Project Summary, Feb 11, 2008

The Lake Forest Park 100- year Legacy Vision linking our city through green spaces and places creates the framework to build and expand upon the city’s natural qualities in the near term and the long-term future.

The Lake Forest Park Legacy Vision encompasses four components implementing green infrastructure- healthy connections, people places, natural drainage, and native habitat.

Neighborhoods are linked to each other and to neighboring cities by pathways. Hubs are interspersed throughout the city providing for community gathering places. Public streets are transformed into corridors that transport people and provide for natural drainage. Enhanced riparian areas and creek ways ribbon their way throughout the city providing natural habitat corridors linking the two major streams, Lyon and McAleer and their tributaries.   

Click here for a copy of the entire project summary.

Lake Forest Park Legacy

Open House report back to the public

February 11, 2008

7-9 pm

Third Place Commons

Lake Forest Park Legacy

Public Priorities Forum

*****NEW DATE*****
October 29, 2007
Monday 7-9 pm at Third Place Commons

Summary of findings from Planning Charrette and Online Survey

Six groups of Lake Forest Park residents developed a 100 year vision for Lake Forest Park's green infrastructure.  Using maps based on the work of the Green Infrastructure Fair and the web based input, participants identified gaps in the healthy connections, the people places, the natural drainage and the habitat.  Participants sketched out future designs. 

Legacy Planning Charrette: Make your comments on the web The online survey is now closed.

Six groups of Lake Forest Park residents developed a 100 year vision for Lake Forest Park's green infrastructure.  Using maps based on the work of the Green Infrastructure Fair and the web based input, participants identified gaps in the healthy connections, the people places, the natural drainage and the habitat.  They sketched out future designs.  These maps are on the website now.

REGISTER NOW for Legacy Planning Charrette

You are invited to help the City of Lake Forest Park Legacy Charrette plan the City's 100-year green future

When:  September 8
Time: 9-noon
Where: Third Place Commons, 17171 Bothell Way NE

Click here register.  In order to compose the teams in advance, we are asking you to register by September 5.

This planning charrette is your opportunity to help shape a visionary plan that will guide growth and preservation of our unique community resources for the next 100 years.  This vision of a regenerative green infrastructure will strive to create a healthy, vital City while enhancing our cultural and natural environments and maximizing our long-term sustainability.

Registration will be open until September 5, after which planning teams for Saturday's charrette will be formed.  Each team will be led by a professional planner and a member of the Lake Forest Park Legacy Task Force.  Please join us, and forward this email to friends and neighbors and encourage them to sign up too.

Summary of findings from Green Infrastructure Fair
and Online Survey: July 26, 2007

Visit the PowerPoint presentation summary of the findings from the Green Infrastructure Fair and the online survey.  Over 1000 comments have already been received.  The consultant and the task force are now going to review the comments and develop questions for the next phase using "gap analysis." 

The consultants are working on a one page briefing sheet and draft of the first two chapters of the Green Infrastructure Comprehensive Plan.  This will be followed by another public meeting on September 8, 2007 at 9 am in the Commons.  This three hour meeting will using planning charrettes to design components of a 100 year vision for the City's green infrastructure.

 

Lake Forest Park Legacy Task Force presents
a workshop on sustainablility

Sustainability is Half the Answer,  Regeneration is the Other Half
A Mini-Workshop by Carol Sanford of InterOctave Development Group, Inc.

August 8, 7-9 pm City Council Chambers, 17425 Ballinger Way NE

The Green Infrastructure Online Survey

 Survey is closed

Visit the Lake Forest Park Legacy online survey for Lake Forest Park Legacy: Green Infrastructure.  Help answer the questions about our parks, trails, natural drainage, gathering places, and natural spaces. They are all interconnected to form the “green infrastructure” that creates a livable Lake Forest Park.

The survey asks you to identify opportunities for enhancing and preserving Lake Forest Park's Green Infrastructure.

Specifically, where are there:

  • Opportunities for parks, people places or habitat enhancements
  • Special places you would like to see preserved
  • Big connections that need to be made (between existing trails, schools, Town Center, etc?)
  • Important views or viewpoints to natural features
  • Other items you believe should be considered

Click on the map to identify a location and then add comments in the space provided and click. You can pick as many locations and add as many comments as you wish.

In addition, you can sign up for update emails from the Lake Forest Park Legacy at CityMail: click here.

Click the Online Survey link on the left to be taken directly to the survey.  If you have any questions, email the LFP Legacy at legacy@cityoflfp.com.

6/26/07

What is a Green infrastructure?

Green Infrastructure is a comprehensive network of parks, civic spaces, streets, trails, shorelines, creeks, natural drainage features and urban forests that will bind neighborhoods to one another, create ecological conduits from the city’s boundaries to its shorelines, and ensure a wealth of green spaces for all of its citizens to enjoy.

6/20/07

The Green Infrastructure Festival

Lake Forest Park Legacy

It’s our green future…

Saturday, June 23

9:00 AM – 12:00 Noon

Third Place Commons, 17171 Bothell Way NE

What do our parks, trails, natural drainage, gathering places, and natural spaces have in common?  They are all interconnected to form the “green infrastructure” that creates a livable Lake Forest Park.

Citizen input is crucial to making the plan a success. The planning process has four phases that include:  information gathering, formulating a vision plan, identifying priorities, and strategies for making our vision real.  The public will be invited to three different forums at specific phases in the planning process. There will be an interactive Internet process following each of the forums.  

The City’s goal is to increase the connections among our existing resources and plan for parks, trails, shorelines, streets, basins, streams and green spaces for current and future generations to enjoy.

  • Learn about “Green Infrastructure” and why it is important
  • Help assess our current “green assets”
  • Provide input on your vision and priorities for recreation, green space, walking trails, our city’s livability
  • Identify current and potential opportunities

The Lake Forest Park Legacy:
Building a Green Infrastructure: 6/18/07

Green Infrastructure is connecting and preserving all the elements of nature which are valuable to us. Living close to and enjoying trees, forests, plants, wildlife, streams, and pathways through these areas provide the opportunity to nurture our busy lives.

A citizen task force has begun the process of thinking about the "green future" of Lake Forest Park. The task force will be working with a consultant and the public to create a long-range 100-year vision, a 20-year comprehensive plan and a six-year capital plan for our green infrastructure.

Its purpose is to identify and connect hubs and corridors of habitat for native plants and animals that protect water quality and soils, and help regulate climate which will offer the opportunity for citizens [or residents] to benefit and be nourished by nature and ensure the long-term survival and continued diversity of Lake Forest Park’s plants, wildlife, and environment.

Citizen input is crucial to making the plan a success. The planning process has four phases that include: information gathering, formulating a vision plan, identifying priorities, and strategies for making our vision real. The public will be invited to participate in three forums throughout the planning process and engage interactively on the Internet following each of the forums.

6/1/07

Task Force Members

Judy Altman
Annie Breckenfeld
David Carlton
Carol Dahl
Don Fiene
Jim Halliday
Robert E. Lee
Bill Leon
Claudine Manio
Doug Mitchell
Chuck Paulsen
Betsy Piano
John Wright

Staff:

Tema Nesoff
Sarah Phillips

Contact the Task Force:

legacy @ cityoflfp.com