Julie, a staff member who presented the board's mapping update, said she overlaid protected parcels in purple on the existing priority map and suggested creating a new score layer to reflect updated proximity and park-adjacency values. "All I did right now for now is overlay in purple the areas that are already protected," she said, noting the overlay used data sources such as Hudsonia and the city's Natural Resources Inventory.

Board members reviewed available mapping products and datasets the city has accumulated over more than a decade, including 2014 and 2017 inventories and an Open Space Index. The group discussed several prioritization criteria: continuity of habitat and adjacency to existing parks, wetlands and floodplain constraints, parcel size (five acres or larger), historic-value adjacency, and whether a parcel's environmental constraints would make it unsuitable for housing.

Julie described gaps in the current maps and in the dataset: some wetlands identified in environmental reviews have not been consistently included in the city's wetlands inventory, and some older mapping products used county parcel-number conventions that caused mismatches. Board members also discussed how conservation easements and purchases can take different forms — fee-simple purchase, conservation easement, or partnership with a land trust — and said establishing clear internal criteria would help avoid conflict with housing goals.

The board agreed on a set of immediate next steps. Julie will prepare three updated maps for the next meeting: (1) parcels adjacent to all protected lands, (2) parcels within a quarter mile of protected/open space, and (3) parcels outside a quarter mile of protected/open space (to identify park-need areas). She will incorporate Kingston Land Trust parcel lists and other protected-land datasets and aim to present parcel lists and an attribute table so staff and board members can query parcels offline while meeting with landowners.

No formal policy was adopted. Board members said the mapping work and a parcel directory will inform future prioritization and outreach, including whether to seek conservation easements, acquisitions, or other tools for specific parcels.