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Staff updates: open-space inventory, Greenbrier access and mapping of river-adjacent city takings
Summary
City staff told the commission an open-space inventory is nearing completion; the Greenbrier site is difficult to access and the owner has not replied to an access request. Staff also reported a project to digitize flood takings and poorly mapped river-adjacent parcels that may be suitable for conservation.
Christine Altman, assistant city planner, reported the open-space inventory (OSI) work is scheduled for March site visits and that Greenbrier — the most recent site — proved hard to access. Kim said she sent a letter to the property owner a month earlier requesting top-side access from a more passable neighborhood approach; staff had received no reply as of the meeting.
Christine described a separate digitization effort led by a city GIS staff member (referred to as Dave) to reconcile deeds, Army Corps parcels and other records that currently render many river‑adjacent flood takings and dike areas poorly mapped in the public GIS layer. The commission heard that some river‑edge parcels were transferred to the city during flood-control work and are maintained to meet federal flood‑insurance project obligations; those parcels are frequently forested and lack clear public‑facing ownership metadata.
Staff said the commission may shift attention to remaining unmapped or under-documented parcels once the OSI visits are complete, and that aerial monitoring and Nearmap imagery may be used to identify easement violations or large-scale clearing without a physical site visit. Kim said the commission lacks a full paper file system for field properties and plans to create one and to continue compiling easement records.
