Reflects our natural habitat. I think one of the main challenges of mclaren park is really its circulation. By that we mean the safe and predictable movement of people, dogs, children, cars, bikes and other ways of transportation. And yet to be developed across the park and thats one of the things that has most been lacking in mclaren, certainly since ive been working in recreation and Park Department. That a clear set of policies and a real model for how to accommodate all the users and their Movement Across the park has been one of the most fundamental challenges. Because while were moving people across the park and accommodate and balance, were also very much trying to protect the habitat and the natural features that make mclaren such an attractive place to go to, to visit. So we need to balance between the conservation of those resources with also our goal to increase activation. And this is just three kind of quick monkey flower, habitat, weve go redtailed hawks, mission blue butterflies. These are found throughout the park system, but also very specifically in mclaren in a fairly stunning show case. So we want to make sure were accomplishing both objectives at the same time. Our goals for the process when we started were again to really develop a unique identity and brand for mclaren park, which have been lacking. I think to build the Community Support for a set of priorities which we brought with you today, to balance typical neighborhood city park uses with the natural features. And invest in 2012 bond funding in a clearly articulated plan, with clear expectations for folks. And also to position mclaren park for a future investment with not just a set of projects right now, but also somewhat vetted set of projects that people can continue to develop if they want to seek additional philanthropy, if there is future geo bonds or general fund support. Our objective and principles that we use to evaluate the different projects we were proposing and developing were to, again, enhance Community Access into and through the park. To maintain the landscapes. To enhance views. I think thats one of the great hidden secretes of mclaren park, the views you cant get anywhere else and to create and build play opportunities. So this diagram i think gave us a general scheme, or framework for how to organize all the thinking about the different types of projects and how we wanted to think about this unique problem with circulation. Mclaren park has four distinct, 45 really, neighborhoods surrounding the park and the edges are actually one of the main challenges of the park. There are places, as ive said before, where there 1520 foot grade drop between the street, the neighborhood and the park. And knowing how to get in and out of the park from places as diverse as sunnidale, even mission, is a key challenge. Yda mission, is a key challenge. Again, this is where a lot of the trails are, this is where the great views are. Natural features. And then developing connectivity framework to connect the edges to the heart. Because that is actually not as simple as it sounds if youre showing up at mclaren for the first day. I have been lost in mclaren many times. And im sure im not the only one. So we want to come up with a framework that helps bring people from the neighborhood edges into the park. So youre not just hanging out on the playground on the edge and thats the only spot you know and youre wondering how to access the rest of it. Or you have a favorite trail or view, but create something that is predictable and understandable so people can explore and enjoy the whole park. So, we conducted a robust outreach process. We wanted to focus not only on the folks who know the park, but those groups that havent accessed the park or were unaware of the commission process, even for how to get resources. We started off with the Treasure Hunt that was successful. They were occasional users of the park. As well as doing open community meetings, we did focus group meetings, so for each one of the priorities we put forward today, we had at least one, and many cases several meetings to just develop the ideas. We took a road show to many of the neighborhood associations around the park and we also conducted an Online Survey which got us about 300 responses. What came out of that process, was a set of proposed projects that were bringing for you today. This is 6. 9 million of key priorities that we would like your direction to kind of continue forward with developing ideas for. And concept plans. And then in addition to the 6. 9 million, there is 2 million of the 4 million for trails set aside in the 2012 geo bond ordinance. So there is 4 million set aside, half of it weve proposed to go to golden gate and half to mclaren parks. Then we already, the commission has allocated 3. 1 million for mclaren. These are the quick start projects. Many in progress, some of which are completed and a few of which will be combined with the playground project. So all told, that equals 12 million. So 10 million of which is allocated to mclaren park in the ordinance, 2 million for trails, and within that 10 million there is also, in the bond report, 1. 5 million set aside explicitly for habitat and restoration features. As i mentioned, we alsoant wanted to prepare for the future. There are so many needs and great ideas, we also worked with our design team, cmg, to develop concepts which were shown at the Capital Committee of future projects that you could also continue to fund and would continue to enhance mclarens identity and the park experience. That includes developing points of interest further, giving the Upper Reservoir more identity and working on additional improvement for the amphitheatre and continuing to fund the bike park which opened four weeks ago, to great acclaim, and good user feedback. The gateways, particularly at crocker, amazon, oxford street, transforming the park, kind of entrance, neighborhood edge, and then really developing them, building them out so its clear youre entering mclaren park. This is a park experience. And those also all have concepts that could be developed into to help further the design. And then also just the connectivity work, whether its asphalt pathways, paving, or trails, there is really an endless amount of work that needs to be done to continue to improve mclarens fundamental connectivity infrastructure. So, in more detail, running through the pier one projects, wed like the approval of funds. Group picnic area restroom. This would add a restroom, that is a longstanding theme of feedback from mclaren park users and it makes total sense, you want a Free Standing restroom by one of the largest picnic areas with a new playground. Also again, 1. 5 million for restoration of natural features and habitat. Most of this work would occur been the context of also focussing on the connectivity projects around trails and the like. This is similar to the approach we took in the 2008 bond, where as were doing trails work, the point is to be on a trail, to see nature and we want the nature to be in good continue and preserved. These are before and after pictures from other parks, as well as mclaren, of what that means in terms of, again growing, restoring the habitat, restoring the plants around the area and also again, just creating a clearer sense of this is where people go and this is where the Sensitive Habitat is. The jerry garcia amphitheatre, we had a number of great meetings with permities, folks wanted small cosmetic improvements, make the green room look nicer. Improve the sound panels, et cetera. But then the idea that i think that has come out through the design process was really the idea of creating more flat space right by the entrance, because that would automatically allow you to program the area with a broader set of amenities that could support larger and more diverse crowds. If you were thinking about changing the types of acts or activating more, we need the infrastructure to support those audiences and right now, its very easy for us to serve 300 people there and its more difficult to serve a thousand people there consistently. Two other ideas identified for after, or if future funding is identified, is to create also temporary fencing insulation, so you could for events, for the purpose of crowd control, or fundraising or one thing or another. You could put up fencing, but it would not be permanent. You could take it down after an event. Lastly, the hill is very steep behind the seats at mclaren if you ever tried to picnic there. Its pick anything at a 45 angle, its not a great proposition, thats the third thing we identified as option. Tai chi, this is one of the stakeholder groups were able to connect with and had a number of focus group hearings with them and improve crocker and man sel, but if there is funding were open to lewis sutter in the mix. And then pathway improvements. This has been also on the radar for constituents from the beginning. This is our effort to take feedback in a map that was provided by constituents. And it identifies based on the constituents own evaluation like excellent to poor pathways across mclaren park. What we think well be able to do actually i think well be able to accomplish with the 700,000 that is allocated to pathways right now, is tackle the worst red zone areas. Were hoping to be able to tackle a fair amount of the orange. After that, i think we have a good conversation, weve shared this information with the operations colleagues. And thats a future funding decision i think about the way that these can be wrapped into an annual paving allocation or program to continue working on the list. These are just photos of some of the red zones. You can see these are literally just crumbling paths in many areas. And also, our last community meeting, there was a quest to allocate more funding, so we were able to fund Pedestrian Crossing of visitation avenue that will help connect the middle school in particular to the park and improve that access and make it safer. The john Mclaren Community garden received more funding and this will allow us to deliver the full concept plan as originally envisioned. With that, im going to introduce Melinda Stockman to talk through the trails portion of the plan. Good afternoon, commissioners, my focus working on this project for the vision plan was the trails and path focus area. Im here today to present information for you. This first slide shows basically a sample of all the different people who are currently using and would like to use mclaren park. So we have a real increased interest vocallized in Mountain Biking and offroad cycling and we have the brand new bike park that opened on sunnydale and wed like to add to that. We have dogs in the park, dog walkers. We have folks with different abilities, runners, trail runners and of course, little ones and older folks as well. As don mentioned with the trails and path focus area specifically, we were tasked with looking at a fairly robust trail system already in place with fantastic amenities like the philosophers way and what improvements can we make with the money given and what are the challenges . Im going to show you a series of maps, the first map shows the existing multiuse trails. By multiuse, we mean open to bicycles in the park. So these lines are showing man sell, its a street, but as you recall, we converted it to a multiuse path. And the other blue line is the fire road which starts at the new crosswalk that dawn mentioned across the street from the visitation Avenue Middle School and continues all the way over toward jordan on the west side the park. So that is the current legitimate offroad bike access in the park, 1. 3 miles. Through this plan and the process, input from a lot of stakeholders, this dark blue line shows the proposed increase in multiuse offroad access in the park. I will talk about the two loops, but basically, together with the existing and proposed, were looking at approximately 8. 1 miles of bike trails. And paths. Finally, we have the overlay here of all of the proposed pedestrianonly trails as well as multiuse. So one thing i want to point out, dawn showed this in a previous slide. One of our main conceptual moves is to have a large loop that is open to both pedestrians and cyclists in both the north and south half of the park. And so this map accomplishes that and we really are tasked with balancing, how do we get bikers on trails through the woods and have different topography and different alignments while keeping some trails for pedestrians . This is our effort to do that. You likely have seen other maps circulated from Community Members. Were realigning some trails. Were proposing to close and restores other trails and restore them to natural features. Ill talk a little bit more about that. So the total here, the approximate total for all of the trails paths shown is 18. 8 miles with 8. 1 miles open to bikes and the remain der pedestrian only. I also want to reiterate a point i made at the Capital Committee, what are we asking for approval on today . Because i know the vision plan is a little different level and were trying to create an identity and comprehensive plan for mclaren. All this work you see here is trails, we will return with more detailed Concept Design approval level prior to getting a contractor on board. So today, were really asking for your approval for the expenditure of the 2 million for trail predominantly trail improvements and path improvements. Were also asking for your approval of the organizing principles and hierarchy of trails, and the balance of the pedestrianonly and multiuse trails. And finally, were asking for your approval for the prioritization of the use of specific 2012 bond funding, for improvements in the four designated Priority Areas shown on the screen at this time. In addition to that, as dawn mentioned, there is operate 1. 5 million set aside for the restoration of natural features. We anticipate that this design for the project would be built into the trails improvement project. And that we would again develop more Detailed Design and come back with those details as part of the Concept Design approval. So these are the four priority projects areas we identified. We shared these with the community in june of this year. We are planning some improvements to calm traffic and increase Pedestrian Access on shelly drive. This Upper Reservoir area is going to have a crossing that connects the blue water tower and the path and the philosophers way on the west side of shelly with the philosophers way, as well as the path down to the reservoir on the east side. In addition to that, in this area, the asphalt path and steps which go down to the reservoir are in deteriorating condition and we would like to make that more of a natural surface trail, less steps and define the access with more planting. We also would like to repair the paving on the ramp that is south of the reservoir and look at accommodating bicycles on that ramp and adding signage. Because as you get to the bottom of the reservoir, it takes you to the amphitheatre and picnic and we want signage to let people know where theyre going. This is the big one, the shelly loop interior. Its the area between the Group Picnic Area that will have the new playground and the amphitheatre. This area as you see from the photo, the photo on the bottom in the middle shows how wide the trails are to really like roads and in some cases, we need to keep them a certain width for maintenance vehicle access, but we have a lot of drainage problems on the trail. We would like to regrade and put in drainage features and define the trail. We would like to make a crossroads between the dog area, amphitheatre and group picnic so folks know where to go. This shows storm damage from last year. This is an area where we have our gray fox creek and we have opportunity to do a lot of restoration. We have Community Groups using this area, so we want to enhance it, but keeping the natural feel. The third priority area, the connection between lewis sutter and man sel courts. This shows the current asphalt path from the lewis sutter playground toward the rest of the park. We went out and did a site visit and the slope on that path is 19 . Ada slope required allowed is much, much less than that. Were looking at realigning that path and looking into the possibility of making it firm and stable, but again a little more natural feel than asphalt. And were also looking to reconfigure the asphalt path and steps closer to the man sel courts and were looking to accommodate bicycles on a multiuse trail that meets ada guidelines, but weve worked with the guidelines in Glen Canyon Park and Golden Gate Park and there is lot to do to make it interesting and exciting. For some of the trails were looking to realign or close in the area, would we use some of the natural features funding to scrape up the soil, to put seeds in, to put Erosion Control to go back to grassland habitat. Last but not least, the visitation avenue corridor. This is the area that runs from visitation and hahn intersection, up to the visitation Avenue Middle School. We worked with volunteers for outdoor california, a large volunteer group about four years ago to rough out a trail corridor in the area. However, its very sandy. And so we would like to work with the contractor to stabilize the soil surface and again, we have a lot of exciting things going on there with the Community Garden improvement and the puc rain garden. So this would be a new multiuse trail from the park entry. And we would like to have a lot of Habitat Restoration plantings there and were working with Community Members to make that happen and to get more Detailed Designs. This would connect with the new crosswalk at the middle school, so that trail users could walk up the trail and across the street to the fire road. And we would like to have interpretive sign here and working with t