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12, <br /> - <br /> �� _ PARKS & <br /> V"- <br /> TION <br /> To: Ray Stephanson, Mayor - <br /> From: Paul Kaftanski,Parks and Recreation Director A <br /> Subject: Naming of the Bruskrud Road Park Parcel <br /> - - - ---- -Date: ___ - ---April 1-5-20-1 - <br /> Proposed Name <br /> A final master plan for the`Bruskrud Road Park Parcel"is anticipated to be ready for <br /> City Council consideration in early July,2015. The project's design will soon thereafter <br /> be completed. It is anticipated that the project,which will provide approximately 1,600 <br /> lineal feet of walking paths through a forested setting,will be open for public use in June, <br /> 2016. This is the date that the federal government,through the National Park Service, <br /> has established as the final action to successfully complete the conversion process for the <br /> parkland used at Thornton A. Sullivan Park for the construction of Fire Station#7. <br /> Prior to the completion of the master planning task,the department recommends that a <br /> name be approved for this park parcel so that it can be incorporated into the final master <br /> plan. Staff has used the name"Bruskrud Road Park Parcel" only as an internal reference <br /> for planning and project development purposes. The park does not have a formal name. <br /> The proposed name submitted for consideration under the city's"naming policy"as <br /> established by Resolution No. 6537 is"the following: "South Everett Forest Preserve." <br /> General Rationale - <br /> The proposed name reflects the following three key points: <br /> 1) Connotes to the general public that the parkland is a"forest."In this case,it is a second <br /> growth forest; <br /> 2)Articulates a vision that it is the city's intention to"preserve"this forested land. The <br /> land, including.an on-site wetland,provides,important ecological functions in helping to <br /> a)maintain tree canopy cover in the city;b)maintain the forest's ability to'capture <br /> al i l tospher c carbon; and c)help filter stormwater from the north on its journey into Silver <br /> Lake and south to North Creek, Lake Washington, and eventually,Puget Sound; and <br /> 3) Situated less than a half mile north of 1 l2 St SE and half mile south of the Everett <br /> Mall,the name identifies that its location is in fact,in"South Everett." <br /> 50 <br />