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7A Page 1 J�EPCJRT To the Honorable Mayor and City Council From the City Manager April 9, 2007 � Subject Park and Recreation Commission Recommended Park Rule Changes Reca�n:��nd�ties� Delete existing Chapter 25 Park� and Recreat�or� R�e�s of ths Redwood Gity Nlurtici�a! Code and replace with the new Chapter as recommended by the Parks and Recreatian Corrmission and modii`y Chapter 2 to change the Commission name to Parks, Recrea#ian ar�d Community S�rvices Commission to corr�sper�d wit�t the narr�� of the D��i�rtrrfent. �ackground On October 25, 2006, the Parks and Recreation CommissioR approved the teact for a new Chapter 25, Parks and Reereation Areas, of the municipal code and directed staff to work with the City Attorn�y to bring the matter forward for Council consideration. Their recommendation involves the rep(acement of the e�tire Chapter with new text to better organize the document for both the �taff and the public. Thi� chapter of the Municipal Code has been changed oniy seven times over the past 37 years. As was tf�e case in the past, the recommended changes are a reflection of the changes in the way people are making use of our parks and community facifities. Th�ir motion represented the culmination of more than two years af work by a subcommittee and the full Commission as well as the completian of a m�jor goal highlighfied in the 20Q4 Departmenfi Strategic PIa:-�. The rev'sew of the rules rrra� inc4uded as a goal in #he plan because #he renovation of cifiy parks, and increased usage overal€, has raised questians about how park space shou6d be used and the impact of usage on neighbars. After the 1999 renovation of Stafford Park,the Commission ended up adopting interim rules for that site only in 2002. These ruies were in additian to the rules prescribed for other parks �nd r�quired a permit for any grc�� of 25 persons or more p�r�ons; prohibited portabfe barbeques and oversized canopies, play structures artd jumpers. The Peninsula Conflict Resoiution Center helped staff, the Commission and neighbors to deveiop these rules. In 2004,the department implemented a reservatior�system for picnic areas at eight City parks. That same year, a Commission subcommittee was established to address needed changes to the rules and reguiations at all parks. one of their first actions was to bring members of the commur�ity together for communi#y input. Letters were sent out to neighbors surrounding Stafford, Red Morton and Fleishman Parks, and PACT participants. �'hirteen people jained the Commission and stafif for table top discussions; other community members shared their thaughts via email. At this meeting, some of the issues/concerns that were not spaken to in existing rules or were not being activeiy enforced were first highligh#ed. They were the same issues the Commission attempted ta deal with in the Stafford Park Interim Rules. These issues fell primarily into three areas: