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Preservation board asks staff to update maps showing park-adjacent and protected parcels
Summary
The Kingston Preservation Advisory Board reviewed existing open-space mapping, discussed prioritization criteria (continuity, wetlands, parcel size, historic context) and directed staff to prepare three updated maps to guide future parcel prioritization and outreach.
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,…
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