Community Visioning is Now Underway...
A citizen-prompted "visioning" process began early in 2020 to form a vision for the future use of Lily Lake and surrounding land, and to work with stakeholders to develop, adopt, and implement that vision. (We will be soliciting survey input from residents through the summer, and beginning face-to-face visioning in the fall.)
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Use the form below to subscribe to our Friends of Lily Lake website for updates.
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TAKE OUR SURVEY to help us understand how YOU want to enjoy and care for Lily Lake Lily in its future.
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VISIONING FORMS & DOCUMENTS contains our list of Guiding Principles and other documents for the Visioning Process.
Next Steps
With the 'blessing and participation' of the City Council on 2nd February 2021, the Friends of Lily Lake Board has initiated a 'community visioning process' for the future of Lily Lake and surrounding neighborhoods, as follows:
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the Board will work with interested parties (including the City) to create a set of shared draft Guiding Principles which describe what is important to everyone;
the Board will invite people to submit Proposals that meet the shared Guiding Principles;
the Board and stakeholders will select one or more of the Proposals that meet the most shared Principles to recommend to the City and surrounding landowners; and
the City and surrounding landowners would make the final decisions about when and how they would implement the shared vision as expressed in the recommended Proposal(s).
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The Board will not make proposals or invite strategies for improving the park and its surrounding land until after the stakeholders have agreed on what is important to them (i.e., the shared Guiding Principles). Rather, the Board intends to host a community visioning process and to invite dissent as a way of discovering what is important to everyone. The Board believes that if dissent is encouraged during the visioning process, those who implement plans later will avoid disagreements and costly delays and will enjoy widespread community support.