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Liberty Lake consultants recommend city-focused park-standard, commissioners ask for tweaks to reflect local park types
Summary
Consultants recommended adopting a city-owned property standard (10 acres per 1,000 residents) with additional park-classification metrics to guide acquisitions and grant competitiveness; commissioners asked staff to revise the recommended Alternative B to include HOA/pocket-park realities, remove an erroneously counted school site, and return with a staff memo.
Genevieve Bridal, project manager with SCJ Alliance, told the joint Planning Commission and Parks & Arts Commission on Dec. 10 that the parks master plan team recommends adopting a city-focused level-of-service (LOS) approach to guide capital projects and grant applications.
Bridal said the team reviewed state and national guidance — the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) and the National Recreation and Park Association (NRPA) — and combined quantitative acreage-per-capita analysis with qualitative community engagement. She reported nearly 500 responses to outreach and said 83% of respondents called parks and recreation "very important" to quality of life in Liberty Lake.
Under the recommendation labeled Alternative B, the city would adopt…
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