Longmont’s City Council on Tuesday night is to review a proposed update of the 16-year-old master plan that guides the city’s acquisition, preservation, improvement, maintenance and management of open space.
Longmont’s open space program, which includes nature areas and greenways, now consists of about 4,570 aces of land, according to the draft Open Space Master Plan.
That inventory includes properties that Longmont — in some cases, in partnerships with Boulder County and Weld County — either owns outright or where government-owned conservation easements limit development over private properties.
It includes such properties as the Jim Hamm, Union Reservoir, Sandstone Ranch, Izaak Walter, Golden Ponds, Rogers Grove and Lake McIntosh nature areas.
Longmont also now has about 94 miles of trails connecting or running through some of its open space areas, according to the draft plan.
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