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Home My WebLink About2025-11-06; Annual Open Space Status Report for Fiscal Year 2024-25 (Districts -All); Barberio, GaryTo the members of th~: CITY COUNCIL Date~ CA✓ cc✓ cM ~cM _✓ocM(3)~ - - November 6, 2025 Council Memorandum To: From: Honorable Mayor Blackburn and Members of the City Council Gary Barberio, Deputy City Manager Via: Jeff Murphy, Community DevelopmentPlr1:ctpr Sheila Cobian, Assistant City Manager ~ {city of Carlsbad Memo ID# 2025065 Re: Annual Open Space Status Report for Fiscal Year 2024-25 (Districts -All) This memorandum provides information regarding the Annual Open Space Report for fiscal year (FY) 2024-25. Background Beginning FY 2016-17, the City of Carlsbad has produced and publicly made available an Annual Open Space Status Report (report). This report is completed as a requirement of a settlement agreement involving a lawsuit related to the 2015 General Plan Update/Climate Action Plan adoption with North County Advocates. The settlement agreement was approved by the City Council on March 14, 2017. This report includes an up-to-date open space inventory map and corresponding table that reports on the amount of designated open space within the city and it documents any changes to the open space inventory that occurred over the reporting period. Open space is grouped in the report by the city's 25 Local Facilities Management Zones (LFMZ) as well as categorized by four General Plan open space categories, which are shown below: • Category 1 -Preservation of Natural Resources (29.5% of city) Open Space for plant and animal habitat; nature preserves; beaches and bluffs; wetland and riparian areas; canyons and hillsides; and water features such as lagoons and streams. • Category 2 -Managed Production of Resources (1.3% of city) Open space for forestry; agriculture; aquaculture; water management; commercial fisheries; and major mineral resources. • Category 3 -Outdoor Recreation (4.8% of city) Open space for school recreation areas; public parks and recreation areas; greenways; trails; campgrounds; golf courses; and equestrian facilities. Community Services Branch Community Development Department 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008 I 442-339-2600 t Council Memo -Annual Open Space Status Report for Fiscal Year 2024-25 (Districts -All) November 6, 2025 Page 2 • Category 4 -Aesthetic, Cultural and Educational Purposes {2.4% of city) Open space for lands with scenic, historical and cultural value; land use buffers; open space that marks entries to the city from surrounding communities and to major developments and neighborhoods within the city; greenbelts providing separation from surrounding communities; and museums, arboreta, zoos, and botanical gardens. This report provides a brief narrative description of the changes to open space acreages that have occurred since the previous year. The report is available on the open space webpage (https ://www .ca rlsbad ca. gov/ departments/parks-recreation/ open-space). Discussion The table in Attachment A details the amount of open space broken down by LFMZ and the total citywide open space. The map in Attachment B illustrates the location of open space areas. During the FY 2024-25 reporting period, the open space inventory increased by 1.8 acres due to the conversion of single-family residential properties to open space easements: • 0.3 acres were added in the LFMZ 1/Northwest Quadrant (adjacent to Buena Vista Lagoon), consisting of 0.23 acres for habitat conservation (Category 1) and 0.07 acres for public beach access (Category 3) for the Martin Residence Project. • 1.5 acres were added in the LFMZ 8/Northwest Quadrant, designated as open space for a habitat and fire protection buffer (Category 1) between single-family residential properties and the adjacent open space areas for the Ocean View Estates Project. The open space inventory map and table now reflect this update, though it's not large enough to change the open space percentages shown in the table on the map as compared to the 2023-24 percentages. Next Steps City staff will continue to monitor the city's open space inventory and submit the next report to City Council after the end of the next fiscal year ending on June 30, 2026. Attachment: A. Annual Open Space Status Report for Fiscal Year 2024-25 B. Open Space Status Report Map for Fiscal Year 2024/2025 cc: Geoff Patnoe, City Manager Cindie McMahon, City Attorney Dalton Sorich, Assistant City Attorney Kyle Lancaster, Parks & Recreation Director Rosanne Humphrey, Senior Program Manager Eric Lardy, City Planner Robert Efird, Principal Planner Shelley Glennon, Associate Planner Attachment A City of Carlsbad Annual Open Space Status Report for Fiscal Year 2024-2025 July 1, 2024 -June 30, 2025 (city of Carlsbad The table below shows the amount of designated open space acreage by category in each of the Local Facilities Management Zones (LFMZ} through the end of the Fiscal Year 2024-25, ending on June 30, 2025. During FY 2024-25, the city's open space inventory increased by 1.8 acres: • LFMZ 1: .23 acres added to Category 1 and .07 acres added to Category 3 for the Martin Residence Project. • LFMZ 8: 1.5 acres added to Category 1 for the Ocean View Estates project. 1 2 3 4 Preservation Managed Outdoor Aesthetic, Total Percentage LFMZ of Production Recreation Cultural, Total LFMZ LFMZ of LFMZ in Resources of Resources (acres) Educational Open Space Acreage Open Space (acres) (acres) (acres) 1 540.4 6.8 136.4 35.6 719.2 3,395.5 21.18% 2 91.9 0.0 9.5 25.8 127.2 805.4 15.80% 3 55.7 0.0 3.3 0.0 59.0 625.4 9.40% 4 32.9 0.0 25.3 44.6 102.8 507.8 20.20% 5 484.8 0.0 110.9 4.7 600.4 2,440.0 24.61% 6 231.9 0.0 280.4 18.9 531.2 2,606.9 20.38% 7 276.9 0.0 28.3 39.2 344.4 812.8 42.40% 8 492.3 0.0 90.9 13.8 597.0 743.1 80.10% 9 195.1 0.0 3.9 8.7 207.7 471.6 44.10% 10 246.8 0.0 114.2 103.2 464.2 766.8 60.50% 11 920.2 0.0 41.9 148.7 1,110.8 2,290.6 48.50% 12 95.3 0.0 16.5 25.9 137.7 660.9 20.80% 13 113.7 232.4 0.0 0.0 346.1 736.9 47.00% 14 535.0 0.0 21.1 9.0 565.1 827.5 68.30% 15 716.6 89.5 34.2 5.1 845.4 1,536.3 55.00% 16 219.7 0.0 0.0 0.0 219.7 413.7 53.10% 17 187.7 0.0 5.6 31.2 224.5 588.4 38.20% 18 299.9 0.0 14.0 30.8 344.7 899.9 38.30% 19 794.5 0.0 200.9 18.7 1,014.1 1,611.6 62.90% 20 200.2 0.0 34.8 23.6 258.6 805.1 32.10% 21 108.5 0.0 5.5 4.4 118.4 267.4 44.30% 22 69.2 0.0 1.5 3.5 74.2 431.0 17.20% 23 184.4 0.0 0.0 0 .0 184.4 284.4 64.80% 24 65.3 0.0 10.0 6.6 81.9 199.6 41.00% 25 232.0 0.0 0.1 0 .0 232.1 299.9 77.40% Totals 7,391.0 328.7 1,189.2 602.0 9,510.9 25,028.5 38.0% Pacinc Ocean -Future Open Space and Visitor Services• Open Space Categories: -1 -Preservation of Natural Resources -2 -Managed Production of Resources 3 -Outdoor Recreation (Programmed\Unprogrammed) -4 -Aesthetic Cultural and Educational Purposes Acreage 7391.0 328.7 1189.2 602.0 Attachment B Open Space Status Report Map %of OS 77.7% 3.5% 1.3% 12.5% 4.8% 6.3% 2.4% Fiscal Year 2024/2025 As of 9/22/2025 C cityof Carlsbad D Lagoons LT~o~t~a~I ~==~--~-~=~ 9510.9 38.0% [~.J City Limits = Highway Major Street Planned Street -Railroad * Future open space area is not counted in the open space acreage table on this map. For more information, see General Plan Land Use and Community Design Element, 'Special Planning Considerations: Carlsbad Boulevard/Agua Hedionda Center.' PLEASE NOTE: Open space areas on this map are derived from the San Diego County assessor parcel map from SanGIS.org, which is the best mapping base currently available for a city-wide perspective. However, the parcel lines and the open space areas within them must be considered as approximations only, and are not to be used to establish definitive lines of ownership orland status. THIS MAP/DATA IS PROVIDED v\11THOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. ft ---===Feel 1f, 0 3,000 GIS parcel data is derived from SanGIS/SANDAG downloadable data -VNNJ.sangis.org. Copyright SanGIS 2019. J:\cbglslprod11ctslplannlng\SlandardMap\OpenSpate1hl7.m~d