Opening For Open Space

I bet some of you thought I was just all pro-business. If so, it may surprise you to know I'm excited to be able to help spread the word on this:

The city of Lafayette has posted a job opening for an Open Space Superintendent. The position has been requested by the Lafayette Open Space Advisory Committee, (of which I am a member) and the applications are due by November 16, 2006.

This is great news for Lafayette and an example of how the city has grown in a good way: the amount of land under management and the attendant responsibilities - plus the long term vision for the entire open space program in Lafayette - has led to the refinement of this position.

Prairie dog management, trail construction, biological resource inventories, organic farm leases and more await the new Superintendent. Plus there will be the frontline duties of tactfully championing the approved Open Space Master Plan, which doesn't have every undeveloped parcel cited as a priority for acquisition - with several developments moving forward, the requests to turn various neighborhoods' favorite nearby fields into open space holdings instead of a new set of homes and businesses is going to get are going to get pretty loud.