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Following is a bullet summary of proposed improvements and management activities. • Nuisance exotic plants will be eradicated over time by a combination of mechanical clearing and herbicide application with follow-up monitoring, to be undertaken by an experienced, specialized contractor. Public access improvements will be located in currently "disturbed" areas to the extent feasible, to minimize impacts to natural areas. • Two limited parking areas are proposed (±10 parking spaces each); one accessed off Jungle Trail, the other east of SR AIA. No formal SR AIA pedestrian crossing is proposed. • The Jungle Trail access area is planned to have a restroom facility and pavilion(s), serving as a trail head for nature -walk trails throughout the ±80 acres between Jungle Trail and SR AIA. The Jungle Trail parking area and restrooms are to be fimded with Jungle Trail enhancement project ISTEA fiords. • The oceanfront access will be limited to a ±10 pace parking area, accessing a meandering nature trail/path leading to a single dune crossover. • Access facilities will be designed so as not to disturb cultural resources on site. Signs and displays are proposed for educational purposes relating to the site's cultural and natural resources. • An existing boat dock will be kept and improved to serve as a public access point and "water taxi" landing for use by the Environmental Learning Center, similar organizations and groups, and the general public. • Trails and improvements will be interior to the property to minimize potential public use nuisance impacts to adjacent private properties. • Boundary markers are proposed along property lines in lieu of fencing. The option of fencing is left open to address security needs along certain boundaries as may arise once the property is formally opened to the public. Cost/Funding Addendum 8 of the proposed management plan presents a priority schedule and cost estimates in tabular form (see attached). The table footnotes those costs to be funded with ISTEA monies and anticipated recreational development (FRDAP) grants. With respect to the overall cost estimates, it is possible that the actual cost of re -vegetation will be substantially less than the estimate of $182,400, in that natural recruitment/ growth of native plants in areas of exotics eradication will minimize the need for native landscape plantings. Given the anticipated grant funding and conservative cost estimates, it is anticipated that the cost to the County will be substantially less than the total estimate of $772,877 for the improvements. The proposed source of County fiords for the improvements are environmental land bond funds, mitigation fiords, and tree fine funds. Advisory Group Recommendations The JTCA Advisory Group met five times from October 1998 to April 1999 to develop and review the proposed management plan, including the public hearing/workshop held on April 21, 1999. The final draft plan incorporates Advisory Group recommendations from those meetings. One recommendation, however, that has not yet been addressed relates to the name of the conservation area. The consensus of the Advisory Group is to change the name of the conservation area to distinguish it from the overall Jungle Trail greenway. While the Group did not have a specific recommendation for a name change, one alternative discussed was to make reference to the cultural history of the property, in that it was the homestead of Captain Forster, a pioneer in the County's history. The other thought was to tie the name to a geographic feature of the property. MAY 11, 1999 57