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Section B: Project Approach Overview Many communities are following up on their comprehensive planning processes of the last two years with efforts directed at complementary plans, like park plans. Few seem to have realized the potential of their parks to shape their communities as Roseville is now doing. Roseville's early planning processes highlighted the city's parks, and generated a belief that it will be creating for itself a world class park system. If this happens, it won't be by accident. Rather, it will result from intensive study, extensive engagement of stakeholders, forward-looking consideration of possibilities, exploration of big ideas and small ones, framing the optimal plan, definition of the path to implementation, and agreement to proceed. We are proposing a two-part process as a means of defining an appropriate and compelling master plan for the community's park and recreation system. To begin, we would work with the community to define a vision for its parks. Then, based on that vision, we would define a plan for the park and recreation system including a clear path toward implementation. This way, the aspirations of the community and stakeholders become, through an intensive engagement process, the foundation for the master plan as represented in their vision. Key issues and opportunities are resolved in the context of the community's vision in the second stage of the work. Our Work Plan is framed around this two-part process. We anticipate working with a Steering Committee, the Park and Recreations Master Plan Update Team (PARMPUT), who will be charged with guiding and overseeing our work, and with offering us the chance to have local issues interpreted by those with knowledge of local conditions. Our process includes regular meetings with the PARMPUT and opportunities for greater involvement by the public at key points throughout the planning process. We will rely upon the PARMPUT to communicate information about the progress and directions of the work during the planning process to their constituencies. We also expect that the city's park and recreation staff will be integrally involved in this process, lending their experience directly into the formulation of the plan. While we describe the work as discreet tasks, it should really be viewed as a continuous effort. Our work plan frames the tasks we would pursue with an idea that there is a natural progression of the planning process, with two significant deliverables: the Vision and the Master Plan. To give a better understanding of the logic behind a continuous work effort, four stages of work are defined: Part One: The Vision Stage One: Convene Stage Two: Explore Part Two: The Master Plan Stage Three: Define Stage Four: Act