[bouldercouncilhotline] Hotline: Green Tag Program - First Reading Questions

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Sender: Armstead, Steve


Dear Council Members,
 
Staff has completed the analysis required to answer council member Young’s 1st Hotline question.   The response is below.
 
Steve Armstead
Environmental Planner
Open Space and Mountain Parks
City of Boulder
armsteads at bouldercolorado.gov
720-564-2059
 
 

































Question:   1. Would it be possible to provide annual data on the number of trails or trail miles available by user types (hikers, bikers, horses and dogs with green tag) since the inception of the green tag program or for a period long
 enough to identify a trend? And as a companion set of data to this, overlaid on the same graph, the cumulative number of green tags issued for the same period?


Staff Response:
The annual total of trail miles available for hikers, bikers, horses, and voice and sight control is provided below.  Annual mileage totals include changes in management, new trail construction and changes to trail alignments.  Mileage totals do not include
 trail and management changes approved in Trail Study Area plans that have not yet been implemented.  The change in voice and sight control trails from 2005 to 2006 is a result of implementing several Habitat Conservation Areas and dog management changes included
 in the 2005 Visitor Master Plan.
 
Miles of trail available on OSMP for four different activities from 2005 through 2014.
 




Activity


2005


2006


2007


2008


2009


2010


2011


2012


2013


2014




Hikers 


126


128


130


133


139


141


142


142


145


145




Bikes


35


36


37


41


48


49


49


49


52


52




Horses


120


120


124


127


133


136


136


136


139


140




Voice and Sight Control Trails


93


82


83


84


88


87


87


87


86


87




 
 
 

 
Approximately 32,000 participants from 18,000 households have registered in the Voice and Sight Program from its start in 2006 through 2011.  During the same period, just over 29,000 tags have been distributed.  The number of participants in the program
 has grown at a relatively steady rate, adding about 4,000 participants annually after the initial year, when approximately 10,000 participants registered.  As of 2012, 41 percent of the households in the Tag Program are registered to mailing addresses within
 the City of Boulder and 59 percent are registered to addresses outside city limits.

 
When approved in the VMP, council wanted the program to be a one-time sign up.  Consequently, the program does not include a process for updating participant information or renewing tags and it is likely that some registered participants and tags are no
 longer active.  Some of the tags may include replacement tags and do not accurately represent the number of dogs participating in the program. Therefore staff believes the number of participants and households registered, or tags issued, overestimates the
 actual number of participants currently active in the program
 
Annual numbers of participation in the program were reported in the Voice and Sight Tag Program Monitoring Report after a detailed analysis of participation data.   An analysis of annual numbers has not been completed for more recent years.  

 
Number of participants in the Tag Program from the program start in 2006 through 2011. 

 






















 
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