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Northglenn updates open-space management plan; council supports continued maintenance and habitat goals
Summary
Parks staff presented a 2025 update to the city's Open Space Management Plan, reviewing property-specific maintenance, fire-mitigation mowing, trail projects and habitat work. Council members voiced support and asked staff to proceed with the plan and return a final draft.
City parks staff presented updates to Northglenn's Open Space Management Plan on July 7, detailing property-by-property maintenance actions, trail repairs and habitat-protection measures, and asked council for direction to move the draft forward.
Parks manager Willis Waterhouse said the 2025 update adds references to the 2019 Unified Development Ordinance, clarifies site-specific past maintenance and ongoing practices, and tracks goals for ecosystem protection, safe passive recreation and wildfire mitigation. Waterhouse reviewed maintenance highlights across several properties: asphalt and trail work on the Farmers High Line Canal…
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