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I I ,I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I "Consider a point system implementing Policy 2 based on bonus points awarding communities that are in conformity with the Regional Recreation Open Space System. The new point system must not discriminate against communities ineligible to receive bonus points because they don't have Regional Recreation Open Space units in their jurisdiction. The new system will not be applied until all comprehensive plans should have been submitted to the Council--not for FY '82 grants." Staff's proposal to meet this directive is to award 30 points for communities who submit applications consistent with their comprehensive plans, and where applicable, these comunities support acquisition and/or development of regional recreation open space facilities. If projects are submitted which are not consistent with that community's comprehensive plan and/or the community does not support regional recreation open space facilities, no points will be awarded. The Commission and Council will have discretion in determining whether the points are awarded based primarily on the Council's review of the community's comprehensive plan (i.e., consistency with the regional park system) or other appropriate factors. Staff proposes this method because the Council has almost all of the comprehensive plans to use in reviewing the applications and most of the plan reviews will have taken place prior to April 30 (submission deadline for the grant applications). In a few cases, the Commission and Council may need to use other factors to determine whether points should be awarded. This method gives the Commission and Council that discretion by using the phrase "or other appropriate factors." This method doesn't discriminate against ¢omunities which don't have regional facilities within their border. It is intended to only adversely affect the review of projects submitted by.communities who don't support the regional recreation open space system li.e., they do not recog'nize/ protect regional parks/trails in their comprehensive plans) or who propose projects inconsistent with their own comprehensive plans. I. QUALITY THRESHOLD Applicants from the FY '81 grant cycle felt that the quality.threshold should only apply to the "need" and "site suitability/design" criteria. The Commission and Council agreed with this suggestion as the other criteria are not equally applicable to all applications. Staff recommends that the threshold remain at 60 percent in order to promote high quality projects and that it be applied to applic.ations from all policy planning areas. DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK POLICIES In addition to applying the recreation criteria developed by the Commission, the Council has used several Development Framework policies in reviewing grants. These policy decisions will be made by the Physical Development Committee but are presented here for the Commission's information. The following Development Framework policies have been used in previous grant reviews and are proposed for use in FY '83: