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Beavercreek-Ona Beach Comprehensive Plan
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The Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission recently combined Ona Beach State Park and Beaver Creek State Natural Area into a single park under a new name, Brain Booth State Park, honoring the first chair of the Commission who passed away a year ago. The original Ona Beach and Beaver Creek areas will retain their traditional names as subareas of the larger park. The combined park includes a total of 1261 acres under OPRD’s current ownership. |
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| Work on the Comprehensive Plan Continues |
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The Department (OPRD) continues to work on a plan for Beaver Creek and Ona Beach, now officially named Brian Booth State Park, located south of Newport in Lincoln County. Beaver Creek was recently opened with initial improvements as Park of the Year for 2010. Ona Beach was established many years ago. Additional lands have recently been acquired, mostly adjacent to ONA Beach. A map of the planning area is available for viewing on this web site. Other relevant materials produced in the planning process, when they become available, will also be posted at this web site.
A plan is needed to fully address future recreational use and resource management in the park. In the planning process, OPRD is taking a comprehensive look at current information on natural and cultural resource conditions and management needs related to both parks, outdoor recreation trends in the region, areas within the parks that are suitable for recreational use, measures needed to avoid significant impacts on local public services and neighboring land uses, and related ideas and concerns identified through public input. |
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| Planning Area |
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Click here to view a map of OPRD's current park ownership that will be included in the plan.
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| Park Resource Assessments |
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The Oregon Parks and Recreation Commission recently combined Ona Beach State Park and Beaver Creek State Natural Area into a single park under a new name, Brain Booth State Park, honoring the first chair of the Commission who passed away a year ago. The original Ona Beach and Beaver Creek areas will retain their traditional names as subareas of the larger park. The combined park includes a total of 1261 acres under OPRD’s current ownership.
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| Opportunities and Constraints |
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OPRD synthesizes the assessments of existing conditions in the park to produce a map that represents, in simple terms, the parks’ potential for future management and use. Geographic areas are represented by their potential management emphasis. The map is revised to become more descriptive as more is learned through the planning process. The current version of the map, titled “Opportunities and Constraints,” can be viewed at the link below. At present, potential management emphasis for various areas is shown in five categories. Three of these categories represent a natural resource management emphasis (marsh, upland forest, and meadow), one category represents a recreation management emphasis (where facilities currently exist) and the other category represents areas where either recreation or natural resource management, or a combination of these, may be considered.
Click here to view the current version of the “Opportunities and Constraints” map |
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| Public Involvement Forums |
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The park planning process, OPRD holds meetings followed by written comment opportunities to ask for public input on park-related issues, goals, use and development concepts and management strategies. Three types of meetings will be held in each public involvement phase:
- Meetings for the general public will be held at two locations, at a local venue and a venue in the Portland area.
- Owners of properties adjacent to one or both parks are being invited to attend neighborhood meetings at a local venue to share their issues and ideas about the parks and their relationship to the neighborhood.
- Meetings for the planning stakeholder committee (see below) will also be held at a local venue.
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| Public Meetings Schedule |
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We are now ready to hold our next round of meetings to discuss proposals for the future use and management of the park properties. Separate meetings have been scheduled for close neighbors of the park, the Planning Stakeholder Committee, and the general public, as follows:
Meetings: When: Where:
Close Neighbors March 5th, 6:00-8:00 pm Newport Public Library, 35 NW Nye Street
Stakeholder Committee March 6th, 2:00-4:00 pm (same location as above)
General Public March 6th, 6:00-8:00 pm (same location as above)
General Public March 7th, 5:30-7:30 pm Wilsonville Library, 8200 SW Wilsonville Road
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| Stakeholder Committee Representation |
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The stakeholder committee is made up of representatives of interest groups and agencies that have direct interests in one or both parks. The following interest groups and agencies are represented on the committee:
Lincoln County Planning |
Oregon Dept. Fish & Wildlife |
Lincoln County Public Works |
Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians |
Mid-Coast Watershed Council |
Lincoln County Outdoor School Association |
Wetlands Conservancy |
Oregon Equestrian Trails |
Yaquina Birders and Naturalists |
Oregon Dept. of Transportation |
Corvallis-to-Sea Trail Partnership |
Oregon State Police |
Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District |
Oregon Coast Visitor Association |
Oregon Recreation Trails Advisory Council |
Lincoln County Economic Development Alliance |
Central Coast Fly Fishers Association |
Seal Rock Trails Group |
Oregon Shores Conservation Coalition |
Park Neighbors |
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| Staff Contact |
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Please direct questions or comments to:
Ron Campbell, Park Master Planner
Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
725 Summer Street N.E., Suite C
Salem, Oregon 97301-1271
503-986-0743
ron.campbell@state.or.us
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