We don't have to deal with that.

Okay, I'm gonna call to order the regular meeting of the Folsom City Council for March 12th, 2024.

Would you please call the role, Madam Clerk?

Council members Aquino here, Chalum Chairla, Rodriguez here, Ruhrbach here, and Kozlovski.

Here, and if everybody will please rise and join me for Pledge of Allegiance.

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Pledge allegiance public for which it stands indivisible with justice call.

All right, are there any agenda updates?

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor.

There is additional information transmitted for items one and five, as well as a revised staff report for item five months in that's agenda.

All of those items have been previously provided to you, and that they are also available on the table in the back.

Very good, thank you very much.

Okay, schedule presentations.

Okay, your first item this evening is your scheduled presentation item number one.

This is a river district master plan citizens advisory committee report out.

It just takes a second, you'll be fine.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, members of the City Council.

Uh Robert Goss representing the community development department tonight.

I am the project manager for the river district uh master plan.

I'll be doing a tag team presentation uh with uh chair of the Citizens Advisory Committee, John Lane.

So I will open and talk a little bit about the process of where we've uh where we started, where we've come from.

Uh John's gonna a little bit in the in the middle about some of the special things that we're working on, and then I'll close out with uh next steps.

So, as you recall, uh the 2018 general plan uh calls out the river district master plan as an important opportunity uh for the city to take a look at um several different things.

Uh increasing public access, increasing recreation opportunities, and increasing economic development in the river district.

And there are in the general plan some related objectives uh that apply to this project in terms of um city gateway enhancements, uh high quality design, enhancing Folsom's heritage, and then of course celebrating protecting our environmental uh cultural and historical resources.

So this is the river district.

Folsom Lake is over here on the right side, uh, the American River coming down into the historic district.

The Auto Mall is uh to our south or west on the left side of the screen.

Uh this is the Willow Creek um recreation area along the lake.

This is the Lake Forest Business Center or the Blue Ravine Road Business Center.

Um the corbyard is here, the historic district is here.

This is the Lake Natoma Crossing.

And for because it's a six-mile-long district, we have divided it into three areas north, south, and central.

So that we excuse me, so we could manage all of the uh information and ideas that are coming out of the uh process.

So the city council appointed a 24 member citizens advisory committee since August of last year.

We've been meeting seven times.

Uh we uh bridged a uh couple uh uh months in November, December because of the holidays, but we doubled up in January, so seven meetings today.

You can see where we started with introduction, even engaging with state parks, and then went through several meetings of opportunities and constraints, and that's the identifying where we see literally opportunities and and constraints can be any number of things from physical, environmental, cultural resource, um, I mean, lots of things can be constraints, but this likewise many things can be uh opportunities.

We have studied um general land use comp uh concepts related to the courtyard um as well as rodeo park, and you'll see a little bit of that work here uh shortly.

And then finally, we've had uh some substantial citizen engagement uh both uh through the um citizen citizens advisory committee, but also online through the uh social pinpoint um uh online engagement tool.

So um when we opened that up, the social pinpoint didn't by chance anybody on the council log into that and play around with it.

So you did not.

So it's uh it was based in um aerial photography and GIS, so that you could literally hone in physically or geographically on the river district, drop a pin, make a comment.

Others could actually like it or dislike it, or add to the comment, start a little dialogue there.

So um it was open for eight weeks.

We had uh 300 plus participants, we had over 526 uh individual uh comments, and then included on this uh social pinpoint um web page.

We had a supplemental questionnaire.

We'll talk about that in a moment, and then along the process on the city's uh River District uh web page, we uh invite the public to uh enroll or register for the constant contact group.

But we have over 150 um, I think Folsom residents and other um uh uh people of interest in the community, maybe from Orangevale, maybe you have interest in the American River itself and the lake that have uh registered, and uh we reach out to them with each uh time we notify the uh citizens advisory committee, we send a notification to uh the constant contact group as well.

The social pinpoint summary, um here's where you can see the various comments as we aggregate the kinds of comments that we have received.

Um what sticks out to me, and I think to the CAC, um that's short for Citizens Advisory Committee, is the trails and access.

It really is in the river district, it's it's so much about the trails and getting to the water, using the water, enjoying the water.

Uh, that just comes out loud, loud and clear.

The other comments are kind of all over the place.

Uh they range from concerns about the eagles nesting on the um county side of the lake and fulsom lights shining at the eagles.

Um the eagles, I think nested there after the lights were already there, but uh still concern about the eagles, concern about some maintenance issues along trails, and so on.

But then we have parks and recreation, economic opportunities and community gathering space.

That's your picnic pavilions and things like that.