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31 1 COMMON GROUND VOL. 12 NO. 1 NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2000 FJ +� : F Park and Open Space Election Results State Jurisdiction Yea/Nay Description Funding Calif. Napa Co . Nay Acquires, protects and enhances parks and open space $14.9 million Placer Co. Nay Preserves farms and open space, enhances recreation $9 .5 million/ year Davis Yea Acquires, improves and maintains open space $17.5 million/ 30 years Colo . Boulder Co. Yea Acquires and improves open space $119 .2 million / 8 years Grand Co . Nay Implements county open space plan and buys dev. rights $5 .3 million / 7 years Teller Co. Nay Protects farmland, acquires and develops trails, open space and parks $2 million / 10 years Weld Co. Nay Protects agricultural heritage $35 million / 10 years Aurora Yea Funds park and open space projects $16 . 1 million Arvada Nay Acquires, develops and maintains open space $16.5 million Evergreen Park & Rec. Dist. Yea Funds parks, trails, recreation and green space $3.5 million/ 20 years Foothills Park & Rec. Dist. Yea Funds recreation center, open space, parks and trails $22 million Golden Yea Acquires open space, constructs park and recreation facilities $26 .4 million Littleton Yea Authorizes spending for open space acquisition, parks and trails $2.7 million Longmont Yea Acquires, maintains and improves open space $60 million / 20 years Roaring Fork Open Space Dist. Nay Acquires open space $10 million Thornton Yea Acquires land, trails and builds parks $22. 4 million Fla. Alachua Co. Yea Acquires, improves and manages environmentally sensitive lands $29 million / 20 years Broward Co. Yea Protects open space, cleans up water and revitalize urban parks $400 million / 30 years Leon Co. Yea Acquires and improves open space $400 million/ 15 years Seminole Co. Yea Acquires and improves natural land, trails, greenways and blueways $25 million Volusia Co. Yea Acquires and improves environmentally sensitive and recreation land $80 million Volusia Co. Yea Acquires, improves environmental, cultural, historic and recreation projects $80 million Ga. Cobb Co. Nay Funds park and recreation lands $118 million Douglas Co. Nay Funds park acquisition and maintenance, recreation $38 million/ 5 years Gwinnett Co. Yea Funds park and recreation facilities $192.4 million / 4 years Atlanta Yea Acquires, improves public plazas and green spaces $27 million Ill. Lake Co . Forest Preserves Yea Acquires land, restores habitat, imporoves trails $85 million Orland Park Yea Acquires and maintains open space $20 million Maine Scarborough Yea Acquires land and development rights $1 .5 million / 20 years Minn. Washington Co. Nay Purchases development rights for green space corridor $13 million /9 years Blaine Yea Acquires open space, habitat and trail land $3 .5 million Mo . Columbia Yea Acquires, improves and maintains parks $17 million / 5 years St. Louis & 2 counties Yea Acquires park land, creates park and recreation district $400 million / 20 years Mont. Gallatin Co . Yea Acquires land and conservation easements $10 million / 20 years Nev. Douglas Co. Nay Preserves open space, buys development rights $34. 8 million/ 29 years Washoe Co. Yea Acquires, improves parks, trails, open space, library $26 . 2 million / 30 years Congress Passes " CARA Lite " 0 Congress has set aside up to $ 12 billion revenue on federal land holdings . Total ap - over six years to fund what it calls the Land propriations for all programs jump $ 160 mil- Conservation, Preservation and Infrastruc- lion each year, to $2 . 4 billion by fiscal 2006 , Lure Improvement Program . Unlike the Conservation and Reinvestment Act, the new program does not guarantee an The program, part of the fiscal 2001 annual appropriation . Interior appropriations bill signed Oct . 11 by For fiscal 2001 , Congress set aside fund - President Clinton, represents a compromise ing in six categories . hammered out in September by Congress • federal and state land and water con- after failure of a two -year effort to pass the servation fund ($540 million) more ambitious Conservation and Reinvest- • state and other conservation programs ment Act (CARA) . ($300 million) The new program, dubbed " CARA lite, " 0 urban and historic preservation . pro - includes $ 1 . 6 billion in first-year funding for grams ( $ 160 million) federal and state land acquisition and other a additional maintenance at the four programs . Other programs range from urban federal land management agencies park restoration and endangered species ( $ 150 million) conservation to public land maintenance and • payment in lieu of taxes ( $50 million) payments to counties for loss of property tax le coastal programs ( $400 million) .