The delay pushes the timeline past the final City Council meeting for 2022, on October 26, which means that the Plan, in its final form, will go before the new Council in January 2023 for approval. Current StatusĪfter a number of logistical challenges were encountered going into the final week of project preparation, and for the sake of crafting a stronger final product, Planning Division staff decided to postpone the vote on the Public Space Management Plan. If the commissioners concur with the recommendation, staff will negotiate interlocal agreements with the selected municipalities and bring those agreements back to the Board of Commissioners for final review and approval.The purpose of this project is to develop a Public Space Management Plan to provide a vision, goals, and guidance on how public space will be used and maintained in Takoma Park. The recommendation is then forwarded to the Board of Commissioners. County staff provide a recommended slate of greenway partnerships to the Open Space and Parks Advisory Committee for input. Staff send each municipality a letter inviting them to submit partnership proposals, including project scope, cost estimates, funding requested from the County. Greenway partnerships are considered through a solicitation process that generally runs in parallel with the open space land acquisition process. After this project, Wake County has continued to partner with municipalities on greenway projects under the guidance of the 2017 Wake County Greenway System Plan (Updated September 2018). In 2011, the City of Raleigh approached Wake County about partnering to construct the Neuse River Greenway to benefit residents in both the incorporated and unincorporated areas of the county. Open Space staff work to implement the recommendations of the COSP and protect key parcels of land through leveraging County bond monies and purchasing land and conservation easements in targeted conservation areas. Early on in the program, the County supported each of the municipalities in creating its own open space plans before combining attributes from individual municipal plans with county-level priorities to create an integrated, countywide Consolidated Open Space Plan. These funds are used primarily for land acquisition and planning. Most recently the County did a combined Parks, Greenways, Recreation and Open Space bond of which $20 million was dedicated to open space. The County has done three previous bonds in 2000 ($15 million), 2004 ($26 million) and 2007 ($50 million).
Open space acquisition is primarily funded through voter approved general obligation bonds. The program's overarching objective is to protect 30% of Wake County’s land area (or roughly 165,000 acres) as permanent open space. Wake County's Open Space Program strives to protect the remaining natural lands in the county in partnership with local non-governmental organizations, municipalities and state/federal agencies.
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