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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







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EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK DISTRICT PLANNING





The East Bay Regional Park District planners should explain what Master Plan provisions needs revision, and why?  They should explain what the goals are, and offer a credible, coherent, mechanism for soliciting public opinion.


Master Plan revisions should be based on a set of priorities which: (a) emphasize the intrinsic value of open space, and the necessity of employing a thorough understanding of ecological principles, (b) demonstrate that they recognize good planning depends on informed opinion from the public who own and use the parklands, and (c) assert that recreational needs should be accommodated in ways that do not diminish the natural and cultural resources found within East Bay District parklands.


Such planning implies (1) knowing what those resources are, and (2) good resource analysis will be employed.


Future planning should reflect these priorities.  Proposals should not eliminate the existing planning processes nor the Land Use Development Plans (LUDP), nor should they eliminate park classifications and the restrictions that go with them.  To do that would open up all park land for any kind of use, resulting in less public review in the short run, and the increasing controversy in the long run.


Geographical Information System (GIS) mapping should be done on an park-by-park basis within the parkland classification system.  The classification system may need revision, however, these revisions should be modified and revised rather than eliminating these concepts.


Park planners first priority should be the preservation of the park's natural resources.  That is the most important objective of any park.  Planning should be on a park-by-park basis, so the public knows what is intended for each of the parks.  District-wide maps rather than a Master Plan are adequate.


The park classification system should define which uses are/are not allowed within a park, depending on its designation.


The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs, its Members and Member Clubs supports this view of park planning, and recommends that public input into the Park Planning process be retained.



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