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City of Des Moines Plan & Zoning Commission meeting on Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018 in Des Moines, Iowa.
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A
Welcome
to
that
November
15th
City
of
Des
Moines
planning,
Zoning
Commission
meeting
I
will
read
the
rules
and
procedures
tonight.
The
planet
Zoning
Commission
is
an
advisory
body
to
the
City
Council.
The
City
Council
will
hold
a
public
hearing
and
make
the
final
decision
all
matters
before
the
Commission
other
than
site
plans
and
subdivision
flats.
Most
denials
or
approvals
are
appealed.
A
A
Applicants
are
given
10
minutes
to
present
the
request
proponents,
and
then
opponents
from
the
public
are
then
allowed
to
speak
in
that
order
which,
with
each
speaker
being
a
lot
of
maximum
of
5
minutes,
the
applicant
is
in
allowed
5
minutes
for
rebuttal.
The
hearing
will
then
be
closed
and
the
Commission
will
discuss
and
vote
on
the
issue.
All
comments
are
to
be
germane
to
the
item
under
consideration
and
speakers
are
to
maintain
a
courteous
manner.
A
Items
on
the
consent
portion
of
the
agenda,
which
we
have
learned
tonight,
will
not
be
individually
discussed
and
will
be
considered
for
approval
in
accordance
with
the
recommendation
in
the
staff
report.
Unless
an
individual
present
or
a
member
of
the
Commission
requests
that
that
item
be
removed
from
the
consent
agenda
and
considered
separately
under
the
public
hearing
agenda,
the
City
of
Des
Moines
is
pleased
to
provide
accommodations
to
individuals
or
groups
with
disabilities
and
encourages
participation
in
the
city
government
when
possible.
A
Please
notify
the
city
at
least
three
business
days
in
advance
at
2,
8,
3,
4,
2,
0,
9,
special
accommodations
be
required,
assisted
listening
devices
are
available
for
meetings
in
this
location
plan
and
Zoning.
Commission
meetings
are
broadcast
on
media,
cable,
channel,
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or
7.2
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customers
with
that
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and
transportation
to
City
of
Des.
Moines
meetings
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and
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Station
at
6:20
Terry
Street
to
reserve
your
route.
Please
call
dart
on
call
scheduling
at
five
one.
A
Five,
two
eight
three
eight
one,
three
six
calls
for
trips
are
accepted
up
until
5:00
p.m.
of
the
day.
Prior
to
the
meeting,
please
be
sure
to
mention
in
your
request
that
you
require
transportation
for
the
City
of
Des
Moines
meetings
at
this
location.
This
notice
is
intended
to
comply
with
accessibility
requirements
of
the
Americans
with
Disabilities
Act.
A
A
A
A
A
C
I
wanted
to
madam
chair
members
of
the
Commission
I
wanted
to
make
sure
you
have
the
revised
staff
recommendation
and
report
in
front
of
you
and
it
should
have
yellow
highlighted
areas
that
were
modified.
Essentially,
that's
a
middle
that
Richard
deputy
Parks
and
Recreation
Director
Richard
Brown
refer
to
that.
But
I.
C
A
C
So
deputy
Bert
parks
and
recreation
director,
Richard
Brown,
is
here
and
he'll
cover
a
few
of
the
things
that
have
changed
in
the
time,
because
you
had
continued
this
a
couple
of
at
least
once
I
know
so
in
the
interim
heat
was
working
with
the
plan
elaborate
on
that,
but
also
speak
to
the
one
thing
that
we
are
changing
in
the
staff
recommendation
as
well.
So
I'll
turn
it
over
to
Richard.
Now,
if
I
could
have
Tyler
switch
to
the
computer.
D
Adam
chair
members
of
the
planning,
Zoning
Commission,
Richard,
Brown,
Assistant,
Parks
and
Recreation
Director.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
be
here
tonight,
we're
very
excited
about
where
we
ended
up
in
beginning
on
undertaking
and
really
presenting
to
you
what
we're
considering
our
new
comprehensive
plan
for
parks
and
recreation
in
the
city,
we're
very
excited
about
where
we
ended
up
and
and
hope
that
you
are
as
well.
D
Just
give
you
a
little
bit
of
background.
This
might
be
new
to
some
people
that
work
here.
The
last
time
I
presented,
but
we
through
the
last
12
to
18
months,
have
made
2,000
plus
contacts
with
public
people
that
use
our
facilities
residents
of
Des
Moines
to
figure
out
what
they
believe.
The
future
of
parks
and
recreation
is
in
Des
Moines,
and
you
can
see
here
a
lot
of
different
ways.
We
went
out
about
doing
that
from
neighborhood
groups
to
questionnaires
to
open
houses.
Community
discussions
we
met
with
students.
D
D
We
we
tried
to
knock
on
every
door,
overturn
every
Rock
and
talk
to
as
many
people
as
possible
to
really
come
up
with
what
we
think
the
future
is
so
also
one
of
the
things
we
wanted
to
do
not
just
figure
out
what
people
wanted
to
see
for
parks
and
recreation
here
in
Des
Moines,
but
we
also
wanted
to
reach
out
and
see
what
maybe
are
some
peer
cities,
some
people.
We
should
be
really
benchmarking
ourselves
against,
as
well
as
some
cities
that
we
thought
were
aspirational.
D
They
have
really
great
park
and
trail
systems,
great
programming
offerings.
What
do
they
offer
and
were
they
doing
that?
We
could
really
strive
to
be
in
the
future,
so
we
picked
Madison,
Wisconsin,
Omaha,
Nebraska
and
st.
Paul.
Minnesota
is
really
our
pure
cities
and
the
reason
for
that
was
is
they
were
either
the
largest
city
in
the
state,
or
they
were
a
capital
and
sometimes
both.
We
also
then
thought
what
are
the
some
of
the
people.
D
You
really
want
to
strive
to
be
from
parks
and
recreation
standpoint,
and
so
we
found
Minneapolis
Minnesota
denne
in
Austin,
Texas,
really
great
outstanding
park
systems.
Great
trail
networks,
as
well
as
amazing
offerings
for
recreational
programming
to
really
get
people
engaged
in
their
community
as
we
went
through
that,
we've
found
a
few
key
findings
that
were
important
to
point
out
so
for
Des
Moines.
We
found
really.
We
have
above-average
acres
of
parkland
and
miles
of
paved
trail.
We
found
that
we
have
lower
than
average
numbers
of
swimming
pools
and
unpaved
trails.
D
We
also
have
lower
than
average
operating
budget,
and
probably
the
most
shocking
statistic
that
we
found
is
that
all
the
other
committees
communities
had
three
times
the
number
of
employees
per
capita
than
the
City
of
Des.
Moines
did
so.
We
were
very
proud
of
that
work
because
we're
doing
a
lot
of
great
things
with
Parks
and
Recreation,
and
here
in
the
City
of
Des
Moines
without
a
lot
of
staff
and
then
finally,
one
of
the
things
that
they
found
in
relation
to
of
these
other
cities
is.
D
We
have
some
room
for
growth
and
volunteer
hours
and
the
total
number
of
volunteers
that
we
work
with.
We
have
a
very
great
volunteer
program.
We
work
with
thousands
of
dollars,
volunteers
every
year,
all
throughout
the
park
system,
but
really
we
have
some
room
for
growth
and
we're
excited
about
the
possibility
of
that
and
growing
well
how
EPEAT
engaged
people
in
the
park
system.
D
Our
parks
and
trails
are
everywhere,
and
that
means
getting
people
close
to
a
park
or
trail
from
wherever
they
live,
whether
it's
the
south
side
or
side,
you
name
it
and
finding
ways
for
them
to
engage
that
park
system
close
their
house,
because
one
of
the
things
we
saw
and
people
said
most
recent
are
most
predominantly
from
a
park.
Standpoint
is
that
the
neighborhood
park
is
the
park
they
visit
most
often,
and
that
doesn't
mean
it's
necessarily
termed
a
neighborhood
park.
But
it's
the
park,
that's
closest
to
their
house,
so
that's
their
neighborhood
park.
D
That's
the
park
they
use
the
most
often-
and
that's
really
I
mean
if
you
want
to
look
at
one
thing,
is
the
way
we
want
to
make
sure
we
serve
Parks
and
Recreation
in
the
future,
it's
everywhere,
and
that
doesn't
just
mean
the
facilities.
It
means
programming
and
ways
to
engage
people
and
get
them
out
here.
We
also
talk
about
nature
and
making
sure
that
it's
available
to
everyone,
not
just
in
our
large
parks
along
our
greenways,
but
is
there
a
bit
of
nature
in
pretty
much
every
park
out
there?
Also,
then
talking
about
technology?
D
How
do
we
use
it?
How
do
we
engage
people
and
finally,
making
sure
that
what
we
have
for
funding
from
an
operational
and
maintenance
standpoint
is
in
sync,
with
the
funding
that
we
have?
So
you
know
if
we
desire
to
have
perfect
turf,
there
are
the
in
park
system.
We
got
to
make
sure
that
matches
up
with
the
funny
money
that
we
have
so
making
sure
those
are
in
sync
with
what
we
do
in
the
future.
D
After
all
that
input,
we
came
down
to
really.
We
feel
there's
five
goals
that
we
want
to
accomplish
over
the
next
20
years
and
the
first
one
is
the
equitable
delivery
of
facilities
and
services.
The
second
one
is:
we
want
to
provide
programs
that
attract
people
to
parks,
so
first
one
we're
calling
equity.
Second,
one
we're
calling
attraction.
Third
one.
We
want
to
make
parks
and
trails
the
heart
of
the
community
if
we're
calling
that
heart,
if
you're,
just
a
short
little
talk
about
it.
D
D
So
as
we
look
at
these
goals,
there's
really
some
approaches
that
will
help
us
get
out
of
the
gate
to
get
us
started
and
really
start
moving
in
the
right
direction
and
with
equity.
We
really
need
to
do
a
few
things
first,
to
make
sure
that
we're
taking
a
good
look
at
this,
we
need
to
establish
a
baseline.
So
how
are
we
serving
the
community
today?
How
equitably
are
we
serving
the
community
today?
D
And
that
really
means
developing
and
adopting
policies
regarding
what
equity
means
to
the
residents
of
Des,
Moines
and
the
city
as
a
whole
and
then
from
there.
We
need
to
begin
to
measure
the
progress
and
you
can
see
the
map
here.
It's
a
little
bit
difficult
to
read,
but
we
had
the
consultant
play
with
some
different
ways
that
you
can
measure
equity,
and
so
they
grabbed
a
policy
out
of
the
city
of
Minneapolis
and
as
part
of
that,
it
really
just
looked
at.
D
So
some
of
the
approaches
to
attracting
people
to
our
parks
is
one
of
the
things
we
heard
is
there's
a
lot
of
unmeet
unmet
recreational
needs
in
the
community.
So
we
need
to
start
a
dialogue
about
that
and
one
of
the
ways
we
hope
to
do.
That
is
actually
establish
a
recreation
committee
that
is
a
standing
subcommittee
of
the
Parks
and
Recreation
Board.
D
They
have
multiple
standing
subcommittees
and
we
believe
this
would
be
a
great
addition
to
that
that
engages
a
series
of
residents
in
what
do
they
need
from
a
parks
and
recreation
standpoint
and
what
are
the
programs
they
need
in
the
future
and
then,
finally,
looking
at
establishing
a
series
of
guidelines
and
policies
that
standardizes
fees
and
evaluation
tools
for
programming?
So
how
do
we
look
at
that?
Why
are
we
providing
a
program
in
the
future?
D
D
Approaches
to
making
sure
parks
and
trails
are
the
heart
of
the
community.
One
of
the
things
Eric
talked
about
is
some
language
change
in
plan
DSM,
and
what
we're
recommending
here
is
that
we
talked
about
this
in
time
in
a
time
kind
of
factor,
so
making
sure
that
all
citizens
are
within
a
safe
10-minute,
walk
to
a
high
quality
Parker
trail,
the
distance
you
can
go
in
10
minutes
will
vary
based
on
certain
factors,
whether
how
difficult
it
is
to
cross
a
street.
Are
there
sidewalks
around
there.
D
So
we
really
felt
that
that
was
a
better
metric
than
a
distance
Mestre
metric.
If
you
look
at
it-
and
you
want
to
say,
if
you
push
me
to
say
how
far
is
that
in
ten
minutes,
it's
about
a
half
a
mile,
if
you
took
all
people
and
how
long
it
takes
in
walk
and
how
fast
they
walk
on
what
barriers?
So
that's
kind
of
over
saying
ten
minutes
and
but
it'll
be
about
a
half
a
mile,
and
we
also
want
to
work
with
residents
to
quantify.
D
What
is
high
quality
park
mean
one
of
the
things
we've
seen
for
a
long
time
is
that
parks
have
always
really
been
defined
as
a
patch
of
grass,
with
some
trees,
probably
a
picnic
table,
a
small
shelter
play
a
playground,
a
basketball
court,
something
some
sort
of
quantity
of
that.
But
we've
seen
a
lot
of
changes
in
not
just
how
people
use
the
parks
and
open
space
areas
across
the
community,
but
just
in
the
diversity
of
people
that
live
in
des
moines.
So
how
do
we
meet
the
needs
of
their
Parks
and
Recreation?
D
And
how
do
we
define
what
the
high
quality
Park
means
today?
So
it's
gonna,
be
some
dialogue
sitting
down
with
residents,
say:
hey
what
is
a
park
to
you
and
what's
a
high-quality
part
to
you.
So
the
hope
is
that
really,
once
this
is
adopted,
we
can
launch
into
a
pretty
cool
planning
process
that
helps
us
to
identify
some
of
the
gaps
in
our
service
and
when
we
say
that
it's
not
just
making
sure
that
there's
a
park
or
trail
within
a
10-minute
walk
of
their
house.
D
But
it's
also
making
sure
that
that
Park
is
high-quality.
So
there
may
be
parks
that
are
beat
up
and
run
down,
so
it
may
serve
a
lot
of
people
within
10
minutes
of
their
house,
but
a
lot
of
people
may
not
go
there
because
it's
not
really
high
quality
to
them
their
parks.
That
may
be
high
quality
close
to
people's
houses,
but
they
don't
go
there
and
they
need
a
reason
to
come
there.
So
are
their
programming
offerings
that
we
could
get
out
there
to
get
engaged
people
and
it
attract
them
to
the
park?
D
Are
there
parts
within
10
minute
walk
of
people's
houses,
but
there's
not
really
a
safe
way
to
get.
There
are
really
missing
a
small
trail
section:
are
we
missing
a
sidewalk
or
a
safe
way
to
cross
the
street?
So
looking
at
that
and
finding
are
there
they're
really
easy
ways
that
we
can
get
people
connected
and
close
to
parks
in
a
safe
way
and
the
finally
the
most
obvious
one?
D
One
of
the
things
that
we
really
want
to
explore
is
working
with
the
school
district
to
take
some
of
those
neighborhood
elementary
schools
and
work
with
them
to
improve
those
sites,
then,
and
then
put
it
together,
an
agreement
that
really
secures
that
for
public
park
access
I
think
we
in
a
lot
of
ways
consider
most
of
the
neighborhood
schools
to
be
open
for
park
use,
and
the
school
district
has
said
that
after
school
hours,
I
don't
think
that's
typical
across
the
country.
So
that's
why
they
don't
automatically
count
as
Park
Service.
D
So
one
of
things
we'll
do
is
we'll
work
in
the
school
district
to
identify
those
gaps
and
see
if
there's
possibilities
of
increasing
and
improving
access
to
parks
at
neighborhood
school
sites
nature.
So
how
are
we
going
to
approach
nature
and
making
sure
that's
important
is
part
of
our
park
system.
We
want
to
educate
people
and
to
understand
and
engage
with
nature
in
their
parks.
Why
it's
important
to
have
nature
there?
D
What's
the
importance
of
having
wildlife
and
sensitive
natural
features
within
our
park
system,
we
also
want
to
be
able
to
scribe
why
we
want
healthy
landscapes.
What
are
their
benefits
to
people
that
live
here
and
people
that
visit
Des,
Moines
and
then
also
to
we
want
to
talk
about
creating
a
system-wide
natural
resource
management
plan.
We
also
want
to,
as
part
of
that
look
at
methods
in
how
we
manage
and
maintain
that
land
on
both
land
and
water.
We
want
to
look
at
monitoring
and
reporting
what
we're
seeing
out
there.
D
One
of
the
things
we
just
did
in
the
last
years.
We
part
a
partnership
with
polk
county
conservation
to
test
about
20
sites
for
water
quality
in
the
City
of
Des
Moines.
So
now
looking
be
part
of
that
water
quality
learning
monitoring
program
that
we
can
start
to
benchmark
and
see
what
the
quality
of
the
lard
looks
like
in
the
city,
and
then
we
want
to
continue
to
engage
volunteers
and
other
resources
throughout
the
management
of
our
natural
resources
and
I
briefly
talked
about
in
the
beginning.
But
it's
also
finding
ways
to
get
nature.
D
In
every
part.
It
doesn't
have
to
be
a
major
stand
of
oak
woodland
or
a
Greenway
with
a
creek
in
it.
It
could
be
something
as
simple
as
a
butterfly
garden
or
a
rain
garden
to
capture
and
treat
stormwater
from
a
parking
lot
in
the
park,
so
looking
at
ways
that
we
can
put
nature
in
just
about
every
one
of
our
parks
and
then
finally,
we
want
to
look
at
ourselves
as
an
organization
and
make
sure
that
we
were
prepared
to
serve
the
parking
recreation
needs
of
the
community
in
the
future.
D
So
we're
calling
this
innovation
and
it
really
looks
at
us
as
an
organization
and
says
what
do
you
need
to
do
to
be
prepared
for
this?
So
well,
some
of
the
approaches
we're
gonna
look
at
is
we
want
to
leverage
best
practices
from
other
park
systems?
There
are
thousands
and
thousands
of
parts
of
the
recreation
agencies
across
the
country
that
we
can
go
out
and
see
what's
working
really
well
for
them,
bring
it
back
and
adapt
it
to
what
works
at
Des
Moines.
We
don't
always
have
to
reinvent
the
wheel
from
parks
and
recreation.
D
That
means
working
with
corporations
nonprofits
individuals
to
provide
money
to
improve
facilities,
but
also
means
working
with
organizations
to
volunteer
their
time
and
their
efforts
to
meet
and
raise
money
for
parks
and
recreation
improvements.
How
take
the
success
we've
had
and
continue
to
multiply
that
across
the
community
to
really
take
the
limited
city
dollars
that
we
have
and
expand
those
to
improve
Parks
and
Recreation.
D
Also
one
of
the
things
we
we
asked
the
consultants
to
do
is
knowing
that
you
know
it's
gonna,
take
twenty
plus
years
to
really
accomplish
a
lot
of
these
things
and
maybe
even
more
what
are
a
few
things
that
we
need
to
start
with
right
out
of
the
gate.
That
would
help
us
to
be
a
success
and
really
push
us
in
the
right
direction.
So
they've
made
some
recommendations
on
policies
to
undertake
equity
will
be
probably
the
number
one
one
one
that
we
tackle.
What
does
equity
mean
to
the
community?
D
What
are
some
projects
that
are
important?
Where
are
some
processes
to
undertake?
Are
there
partnerships?
It
would
be
key
to
go
and
reach
out
and
speak
informing
now
and
other
standards
that
we
really
should
be
trying
to
meet
as
an
agency
and
an
organization
and
how
we
provide
those
services.
So
we're
excited
about
the
possibility,
once
this
is
adopted,
that
we
can
really
get
out
of
the
gate
and
start
running
quickly
and
I'll
just
wrap
up
with
this
we're
here
tonight
for
a
recommendation
from
the
Planning
Zoning
Commission.
D
This
will
continue
to
the
Parks
and
Recreation
Board
later
in
the
month.
We'll
have
a
presentation
with
the
City
Council
in
the
morning
of
December
10th
and
asked
them
for
consideration
of
this.
As
an
amendment
plan
TSM
at
the
December
17th
meeting
with
that
I'd
be
happy
to
take
any
questions
or
can
you
hit
up
for
me
yeah.
E
F
I
thought
this
was
a
spectacular
job,
so
you've
done
a
wonderful
job
here
and
I
appreciate
it.
I'm
curious
about
the
proposed
amendment
where
it
looks
like
what
worried
we'd
be
changing.
Is
you
mentioned
a
number
of
times,
10-minute,
walk
to
parks
and
yeah
looks
like
we
were
being
asked
to
change
that
to
10-minute,
walk
or
drive
to.
D
F
C
D
D
F
D
Good
yeah,
you
know
one
of
the
things
we're
gonna
look
at
is:
what's
the
potential
maximum
impact
base
on
our
existing
trail
and
Street
Network,
and
then,
where
is
that
limited
based
on
just
exactly
we
said?
There's
no
sidewalk,
there's,
maybe
not
a
safe
crossing.
What
if
the
park
is
exactly
across
the
street,
but
closest
safe
crossing
distance
is
a
quarter
mile
down
across
the
street
and
another
quarter
mile
back,
so
we
need
to
we're
gonna
look
at
opportunities
like
that
say.
D
What's
the
best-case
scenario
based
on
our
existing
parks
and
trails
network,
and
then
where
are
some
of
the
deficiencies
things
we
need
to
work
with
the
Transportation
Department
to
improve
what
are
things
we
need
to
do
from
a
parks
and
recreation
standpoint
to
improve
access?
Are
there
easy
access
points
to
open
up?
Are
there
ways
to
increase
ways?
People
get
there,
but
it's
it's.
The
metric
itself
is
solely
based
on
someone
that
would
be
walking
there
now
they
can
certainly
get
there
in
a
lot
of
different
ways.
I
guess.
A
E
E
G
E
I'd
suggest
that
you
have
some
kind
of
a
change
in
it
too.
Regardless
of
what
planned
DSM
says
to
make
a
clearer
to
say,
all
residents
should
live
within
a
10-minute,
walk
of
a
park
trail
or
open
space
or
the
vehicle
access
facilities
or
a
safe,
walking
or
bicycle
route,
something
to
make
the
vehicle
less
important
and
the
vehicle
access
facility
more
important.
D
I
mean
from
a
standpoint
of
our
intent.
Probably
the
simplest
statement
would
be
that
all
residents
have
access
to
a
high-quality
Park
within
a
10-minute
walk
of
their
home
from
our
intent
of
what
we're
trying
to
accomplish
that,
probably
the
most
simple,
and
then
we
work
that
out
from
one
of
things,
we're
gonna
do
is
immediately
upon
adoption
of
this
plan.
D
G
A
D
Not
sure
we're
just
we're
kind
of
guessing.
So
what
where
this
has
come
from?
You
know
for
a
long
time
the
measure
of
parks
and
recreation
services
in
a
community
was
the
number
of
basketball
courts
per
10,000
people
or
the
number
of
acres
per
hundred
thousand
people,
and
we've
really
felt
that
that
just
never
really
was
a
good
description
of
how
well
parks
and
recreation
serve
the
community.
A
good
example
is
between
Easter
Lake
and
Ewing
Park.
D
So
it's
a
very
misleading
statistic,
and
so
what
started
to
occur
in
the
last
three
to
five
years
is
the
trust
Republic
land,
which
is
a
kind
of
a
nationwide
nonprofit
Land
Trust
that
seeks
to
preserve,
protect,
Park
and
open
space
land
across
the
country
not
just
locally
but
federally,
and
the
National
Recreation
and
Parks
Association,
as
well
as
the
Urban
Land
Institute.
We
really
partnered
together
and
believe
that
this
is
probably
the
best
metric
that
you
can
do
is
what
percentage
of
your
population
lives
within
a
safe
10-minute
walk
of
a
high
quality
Park.
D
That
really
says
how
well
you're
serving
the
community
and,
like
we
talked
about
earlier,
it
might
be
a
whole
number
of
different
things,
but
one
of
the
things
we've
kind
of
theorized
and
we
don't
have
actual
data-
is
they
excluded
the
schools
on
that
because
not
every
school
is
open
to
the
public
outside
of
school
hours.
That's
our
guess,
because
it's
something
that
you
use
nationwide
but
do
say
in
their
one
of
their
kind
of
methodologies,
is
that
unless
an
agreement
exists
for
public
access.
D
They're
talking
about
the
grounds
is
what
they
say
to
us
is
so
in
in
that.
So,
if
you
factor
D
in
all
the
elementary
schools
that
are
in
Des
Moines,
almost
all
our
gaps
would
be
filled,
but
for
really
the
purposes
of
it
we'll
want
to
work
with
the
school
district
to
formalize
an
axis
like
we
did
at
Brody.
We
also
have
formal
access
up
at
the
hoover
meredith
complex
for
public
use
of
the
tennis
courts
in
the
walking
trail
there
as
well.
D
A
D
Not
aware
about
me
to
go
back
and
we
can
work
with
the
school
district
or
maybe
find
out
where
we
can
get
some
of
the
information.
But
you
know
one
of
the
things
we
do
is
we
have
an
agreement
with
the
school
district
that
we
update
every
year.
It
talks
about
anything
from
use
of
their
facilities,
so
one
of
the
things
were
able
to
do
is
we're
able
to
use
a
lot
of
the
gymnasiums
as
well
as
recreational
fields,
to
do
programming
offerings.
D
So
we
offer
like
our
flag
football
program,
a
lot
of
the
different
middle
schools.
We
also
use
their
gym
space
for
a
youth
basketball
program.
We
also
work
with
them
to
provide
the
free
lunch
and
a
lot
of
our
parks
in
the
summer.
So
we
have
a
lot
of
great
working
relationships
with
the
school
district,
as
well
as
individual
schools
to
find
ways
to
continue
to
increase
opportunities
and
ability
for
kids
to
engage
in
their
park
system.
Take
part
in
the
programming
offerings
expand
those
offerings.
D
One
of
the
things
we're
we're
trying
to
explore
from
an
equity
standpoint
is
knowing
that
there's
a
large
population
of
the
school
kids
are
in
free
and
reduced
lunch.
Is
there
a
way
that
we
can
allow
them
to
get
into
a
lot
of
our
program
offerings
for
a
much
reduced
cost
if
they
qualify
for
that
program
right
now
we
have
what
we
call
as
a
Brass
program.
It's
got
an
acronym,
but
it's
like
big
I,
think
it's
greater
Des
Moines
activities
and
scholarship
program.
D
But
in
order
to
be
eligible
for
that,
you
have
to
go
up
to
the
Community
Action
Agency.
They
have
to
verify
your
income
and
then
from
there
you
have
to
be
issued
a
card.
Then
you
can
come
down
to
the
office
here,
activate
that
as
part
of
your
account
and
then
you
can
be
eligible,
but
are
there
ways
that
we
can
remove
some
of
those
barriers
from
that,
so
one
things
works
blowing?
Are
there
ways
that
maybe
just
every
kid
within
the
Des
Moines
school
district
that
is
eligible
for
free
and
reduced?
D
Lunch
is
now
eligible
for
our
discounted
programs.
So
we're
really
trying
to
to
look
at
things
like
that
that
really
helps
improve
the
equitable
service
and
delivery,
those
facilities
and
programs
to
really
get
more
people
engaged
in
there.
There's
about
16,000,
I
think,
kids.
That
would
be
eligible
for
our
kindergarten
through
eighth
grade
programs
and
in
our
youth
basketball.
We
only
serve
about
800
of
them,
so
we
really
feel
like
there's
great
opportunities
to
grow
and
get
a
lot
of
school
kids
engaged
in
what
we
do
and
the
programs
that
we
offer.
G
D
B
D
Bit
earlier,
so
we
did.
We
did
an
analysis
about
five
years
ago
and
we
were
about
67%
of
households
were
within
a
10-minute
walk
of
a
park
at
that
time.
That
did
not
take
into
account
how
easy
it
was
across
the
street.
So
we
just
assumed
at
that
point
because
that's
the
only
lead
we
had
at
the
time.
So
if
you
took
an
actual,
it's
probably
a
little
bit
lower
than
that,
but
we
believe
there's
a
lot
of
access
that
we've
improved
since
then.
D
So
it's
probably
still
around
that
that
percentage
and
we're
actively
out
I
mean,
even
before
the
adoption
of
this
plan,
we're
actively
out
trying
to
find
ways
to
improve
access
to
people
within
a
10-mile
walk
in
their
house,
we're
actively
out
working
with
developers
and
some
of
the
growing
areas
of
town.
So
in
the
northeast
side
of
town,
we're
actually
asking
if
they'd
be
willing
to
set
aside
a
couple
acres,
would
they
be
willing
to?
Let
us
purchase
a
couple
acres.
D
B
D
That's
a
pretty
big
population
area
that
has
zero
access
to
a
park,
the
only
kind
of
park
area
there
would
be
Willard
elementary
school,
but
that's
on
the
very
southeast
corner
that
so
that
could
help
potentially
to
serve
a
fortunate
population.
You
still
have
a
very
big
gap
there,
where
they
don't
have
access
to
that
and
they
would
have
to
cross
even
if
to
get
to
the
existing
parks.
So
Asheville
is
up
on
like
east
18th
and
Hubbell
Avenue.
They
still
got
across
a
couple
Avenue
to
get
there.
They
gotta
cross
railroad
tracks.
D
There
might
be
not
sidewalks
in
some
of
those
areas.
So
it's
looking
at
all
those
areas
again,
the
south
side,
there's
almost
no
parks
on
the
south
side
outside
of
a
couple
small
neighborhood
parks
and
then
a
thousand
acres
of
amazingness
out
at
Easter
Lake
in
Ewing
Park,
but
which
is
great
if
they
can
get
there,
but
most
the
time
they're,
probably
going
to
get
there
they'd
love
to
have
just
a
little
neighborhood
park
close
to
their
house
or
a
trail
that
allows
them
to
access
the
trail
system.
D
So
it's
trying
to
find
ways
in
those
develop
neighborhoods
to
do
that,
and
that
will
be
a
challenge.
But
it's
something
we're
committed
to
finding
a
way
to
do.
We've
already
got
several
discussions
about.
How
can
we
work
fiscal
district?
Maybe
improve
a
middle
school
or
work
to
improve
an
elementary
school?
So
we
really
tried
hard
to
see
if
we
can
kind
of
start
connecting
some
of
those
dots.
D
G
E
Richard
I
have
a
question
about
about
the
number
of
parks
and
in
the
city.
It's
my
impression
that
the
the
park
system,
which
began
with
the
great
parks
and
theirs
they
still
are
the
great
yes,
has
been
over
the
years.
I
mean
over
many
years
a
bits
and
pieces
approach
to
acquisition
and
some
lands.
I
think
the
city
is
acquired,
not
really
wanting
them
and
so
forth,
and
so
on
and
it's
it's
a
patchwork
quilt
at
best,
I
mean
a
patchwork.
Quilts
can
be
fine,
don't.
D
Yeah,
that's
something
that's
come
up
in
the
past
and
actually
something
we
actually
addressed
here.
Probably
less
than
two
years
ago,
we
had
a
request
from
some
neighbors
that
lived
adjacent
to
royal
parks.
So
if
you're
not
familiar
with
royal
Park,
Rob
Park
I
believe
was
on
ninth
and
college
roughly
in
that
era
territory
there
a
little
bit
northeast
of
the
grub
YMCA
facility
and
the
adjoining
neighborhoods
approached
us
and
said
you
know
this
isn't
really
working.
It's
not
a
good
park.
There's
a
lot
of
problems
with
it.
D
There's
just
a
lot
of
crime
and
the
quality
is
pretty
low,
and
so
what
we
did
at
the
time
is.
We
took
this
kind
of
10-minute
analysis
and
we
said
you
know
if
we
remove
this
from
the
system,
that
it
wouldn't
really
impact
the
service
or
the
number
of
people
that
are
within
that
10
minute
walk
to
a
community.
So
what
we
said
to
them
is
say:
hey.
D
The
existing
owner
after
was
torn
down,
didn't
want
it,
so
they
just
turned
it
over
to
the
city
and
we've
been
stuck
with
it
ever
since,
and
would
never
be
a
site
that
we
would
have
ever
chosen
for
even
a
tiny
little
pocket
park,
and
so
we
said
to
them
after
this
plan
is
adopted.
We'll
go
to
a
formal
analysis
and
if
we
feel
like
that
doesn't
remove
service
for
people
to
live
around
there,
then
it's
something
we
could
consider
and
I
think
that'll
be
really
the
highest
metric.
D
That
we'll
use
to
make
recommendations
like
that.
But
I
don't
think
it'll
happen
very
often
because,
despite
being
a
patchwork
of
a
system,
they're
remarkably
well
placed
in
most
situations
that
if
you
took
out
a
park
that
it
would
leave
a
pretty
big
gap,
so
I
think
there's
very
few
instances
where
you
could
do
something
like
that
and
mayor
Cownie
likes
to
tell
us
he
might
have
been
when
he
was
on
the
planet.
D
Zoning
Commission
that
he
proposed
selling
and
he
didn't
say
how
many
parks,
but
he
tried
to
sell
at
least
one
park
and
got
eaten
alive.
So
he
said
we
won't
be
trying
that
again.
So
no
I,
don't
think.
There's
remedy
that
we
could
do
well.
Obviously
always
gonna
try
to
work.
If
it's
too
small
are
there
opportunities
to
add
size
to
it
or
improve
the
quality
of
it
or
the
access
to
it.
D
But
I
think
it'd
be
very
rare
situation,
we're
moving
forward
that
we
would
get
rid
of
an
entire
park,
maybe
a
small
piece
of
it,
but
we
also
see
an
appetite
for
the
Parks
and
Recreation
Board
to
not
do
that
at
all.
This
is
a
give
me
an
example.
We
used
to
have
a
series
of
caretaker
houses
throughout
the
system
so
Greenway
park,
you
have
a
caretaker
house,
Pioneer
Park,
you
have
a
caretaker
house.
Mchenry
still
has
one
of
them.
It's
old.
D
There
were
this
little
bungalows
that
were
for
the
the
regional
park
manager
back
in
the
30s
40s
and
50s,
and
we've
torn
a
lot
of
them
down,
and
but
we
had
a
really
nice
high
quality
one.
It
was
a
brick
structure
down
in
Pioneer
Park
and
it's
sat
on
a
typical
sized
residential
lot
and
was
adjoining
other
residential
properties,
and
one
of
our
recommendations
was.
It
makes
some
sense.
We
can
put
a
quarter
acre
back
on
the
tax
rolls
and
have
a
nice
house.
D
It
could
go
to
someone
and
the
City
Council
and
the
person
rec
room,
abortion,
Recreation
Board
were
very
adamantly
against
that
taking
any
land,
they're
very
sensitive,
those
things
and
so
I
think
could
be
a
very
rare
case
where
we
would
probably
do
that,
but
certainly
is
something
we'll
always
looking
at
it.
Just
may
not
make
it
very
far.
A
E
D
For
us
is
both
st.
Paul
and
Minneapolis
up
here
in
aspirational,
City
have
been
ranked
by
the
truss
Republic
lands,
the
last
several
years
in
a
row
as
the
number
one
and
number
two
Park
systems
in
the
country.
They
ranked
the
hundred
largest
cities
and
quality
of
their
Park
systems
from
anything
from
the
access
that
we
talked
about
to
the
amount
of
money
their
community
spends
on
parks
and
recreation.
All
the
way
to
you
name
it.
D
What
how
many
community
centers
basketball
courts
facilities
that
you
have
across
there
and
they've
been
a
very
steady
number
one
and
number
two
just
being
that
close
to
us.
So
one
of
the
things
we're
gonna
do
is
spend
a
couple
days
up
there
next
spring
and
really
talk
to
them
about
what
do
they
do?
What
makes
them
so
good
at
what
they
do
and
what
can
we
can
bring
back
from
them
to
really
take
some
elements
of
this
plan
and
move
that
forward
and
improving
our
park
system?
Richard.