Landscape Master Plain progress – updated 01.25.2022 Darrell Walker
History
- 2019 Winter
- 2019 Annual meeting
- Landscape is ‘on borrowed time’. Board members will get estimates this summer for replacement during 2020.
- 2019 Annual meeting
- 2020 Summer
- Roof Project
- COVID 19
- Fall 2020
- Developed basic requirements created for a request
- Became apparent the irrigation system needed replacement (on life support) vs repair
- Important to have a landscape plan before any design of a new irrigation system could be completed
- Request first draft to develop a master landscape plan
- Fall 2020 Good Earth contacted to create first stage of the landscape glide, to establish a requirements list, base line inventory of what our needs, we is currently on site, recommendations of solutions.
- Spring / Summer 2021
- Cap Landscape committee created
- Committee water research – Cost, fire hydrant, storage, Town of Basalt water department interview
- Review V1 Draft from Good Earth
- Committee walk around, notes, price estimates
- Landscape Project Plan / Notes
- Fire mitigation research added to the project (notes below)
- Cap Landscape committee created
- Winter 2022
- Future (tentative / goals and rescheduling)
- Cost analysis: funds are not available
- Can not implement irrigation / landscape plan until summer 2023
- Update current plans with new requirements learned from summer 2022
- Committee to create a ver2 of master plan to submit review by Owners for review and discussion
- Additional owner surveys / tools to submit ideas
- Schedule landscape meetings min 1 per month (Feb – April)
- Resubmit to Good Earth, request V2 (Owner review version)
- Schedule meeting to review V2 with owners
- Update Capital Reserve for implantation two phases
- Irrigation summer 2023
- Landscape completion 2024 (estimate 2 years)
- Committee to create a ver2 of master plan to submit review by Owners for review and discussion
- Owner Gardens
- Place holder TBD
- Fire Mitigation
- First Basberg fire mitigation completed 2004
- Three additional fire assessments
- 2008 (local)- High Hazard Rating – Jerry Peetz Ops Director – Audit work completed in 2004
- 2015 – Rating High Eric Lovgren Wildlife Mitigation Specialist
- 2019 – Karl Oliver / Basalt Fire
- Work Summer / Fall 2021
- Review past assessments
- Determined we should prioritize some action to support the assessments
- Fire mitigation has a direct relationship to the landscaping plan
- Green Earth l requirement incorporate fire mitigation into the new plan
- The more we studied the fire mitigation plans, prioritizing our current state became more important
- Review 2019 Assessment with Aspen Tree Service and Earth-Wise
- What is reasonable to do this summer?
- Prune dead fall – trim Uplift branches
- Removal trees 2021
- Cedar – Sopris unit 6 & 7 (2020)
- Three pinons FP courtyard
- Aspen – unit 8
- Russian Olives – unit 9
- 2023 Maintenance *see future below
- Create Phase II plans – Set maintenance priorities for summer 2022
- Coordinate tasks with options from the landscape plan and capital reserve. Balance present with future.
- Maple tree unit 1 scheduled for removal
- Current stressed trees
- Cedar / Junipers unit 17 and gully behind dumpster shed
- Cisterns 2 remaining FP building
- Additional fire mitigation slopes on South (Sopris) and East (Frying Pan) building
- Irrigation maintenance
- Sprinkler heads audit, replace where needed. (can we reuse new heads updated irrigation p)
- Pressure test irrigation system at start up
- Identify Leaks
- Audit water lines what is still working what is not
- Lawn Maintenance upgrades
- Budget considerations
- Increase landscape management landscape support
- 2 / 3 times per summer – Cut natives areas to 6″
- Prune and trim where needed
- Identify stressed trees monitoring – remove if necessary
- Landscape health and fire mitigation awareness (photos)
- Frying pan garden area
- Shade options, replace trees, architectural shape options, combination of both
- Native areas – add routine maintenance
- Level grounds
- Manage surface fuels – Pine needles, grass cut to 6 inches X times per summer
- End Unit bare ground mitigation Unit, #1, 9, 10, 17, north bank of the Sopris parking
- Abandon water pipes unit 9,
- Irrigation connection boxes bare wires
- Review capital reserve plan for task overlap
- Pool Fence repair
- Reserve for cistern replacement
- Fire Mitigation Phase II / Phase II (TBD) .
- Future* (TBD)
- Firewise type Community idea
- Create a committee of owners and neighbors to build
- Firewise USA
- National Fore Protection Assoc
- REALFire – Vail Board of Realters, Eagle County partnership
- Create a committee of owners and neighbors to build
- Firewise type Community idea
- Resources
- *Lake Christine Post-Fire Study and other resources
- Lake Christine fire updates
- Urban Wildfire Interface (WUI)
- Colorado Wildfire Risk Viewer
- Fire wise Home Ignition Zones
- *Lake Christine Post-Fire Study and other resources
