MBG - Benefits for Charlottesville

How McIntire Botanical Garden
Will Beneﬁt the City of Charlottesville
Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Objectives
Show that McIntire Botanical Garden
represents the best opportunity to
utilize the remaining portion of
McIntire Park

Show that MBG has the potential to
improve the city in accordance with
the City Council Vision 2025
Affected Area
Show how other models of success are
applicable to the MBG project


City Council Vision 2025
Economic Sustainability

A Center for Lifelong Learning

Quality Housing Opportunities

C’ville Arts and Culture

A Green City

America’s Healthiest City

A Connected Community

Smart, Citizen-Focused Government

Economic Sustainability
Attract tourists who are in
the area to see other
attractions

Will increase visitor stay,
beneﬁt local restaurants
and businesses

Visitors will be more likely
to make Charlottesville
their home Monticello


A Center for Life-long Learning

Educational programs for
Charlottesville students,
Boy and Girl Scouts, UVA
students, gardeners, etc.

Teach visitors about
horticulture and native
Virginia plants as well as
new plant ecosystems

Encourage volunteerism


C’ville Arts and Culture

Can be venue for festivals,
events, performances

Summer camps

Art in the Garden

Art in Place
David Snyder


A Green City

Potential to increase
horticultural knowledge of
citizens

Preserve and sustain native
plants

Trail system


America’s Healthiest City
Helping to facilitate healthy
lifestyles

Nature trails

Clean, healthy garden

According to WebMD, the
restorative beneﬁts of
gardens “can lower blood
pressure, boost immune
function, and reduce stress”


A Connected Community
New pedestrian path
will allow pedestrians to
access the park over 250
bypass

New pedestrian bridge
to cross the railroad and
connect the West side of
the Park to the East side
of the park McIntire Trail


Models of Bellevue, WA

Success
Be!evue Botanical Garden
Westerville, OH

Inniswood Metro Gardens

The Gardens on Spring Creek
Fort Collins, CO


Bellevue Botanical Garden
Bellevue, WA

Garden Quick-facts
1984: Local citizen deeded his estate to the city to become
botanical garden
Same year, Bellevue Botanical Garden society formed to
promote botanical garden
1989: Land designated to Botanical Garden
1990: Planning and construction
1992: Open to the public
2006: 17 more acres acquired (total of 53 acres)


Albemarle and Bellevue
2008 Albemarle Co. Bellevue

Population 139,124 123,771

Land Area 726 sq. mi. 33.9 sq. mi.
Bellevue College, City
Education UVA, Piedmont University

Founded 1764 1869
Monticello, UVA, Bellevue Arts Museum, Lake
Tourism Washington, Downtown Park
Downtown Mall
VA Film Festival, Festival of Book, Arts and Crafts Fair, Bellevue
Culture Festival of Photograph Sculpture Exhibition


Mercer Slough Nature Park

Olympic Mountains

Downtown Park


Westerville, OH

Garden Quick-facts
Was once estate of the Innis Sisters

1972: Sisters donated estate to county

1984: Inniswood Garden Society formed to assist in growth
and development

2002: Opened Sisters’ Garden

The Westerville Parks and Recreation Department has won
the gold medal for Excellence in Parks and Recreation
Management for Class IV in both recent years of eligibility
(2001 and 2007)


Charlottesville and Westerville

2008 Charlottesville Westerville

City Population 45,049 35,318

City Land Area 10.3 sq. mi. 12.4 sq. mi.

Education UVA, Piedmont CC Otterbein College

Founded 1764 1810

Monticello, UVA, Smaller Hoover Dam,
Tourism Downtown Mall Uptown


Municipal Building

Hoover Dam Uptown


The Gardens on Spring Creek
Fort Collins, CO

Garden Quick-facts
1986: First envisioned

1995: Non-proﬁt convinced city council to initiate city-funded
horticultural program

2001: Friends of the Gardens on Spring Creek established to
aid implementation

2004: Grounds broken

2009: Started construction on Rock Garden and Garden of
Eatin’


Historic Downtown

Colorado State University

Spring Creek


Albemarle and Fort Collins

2008 Albemarle Co. Fort Collins

Population 139,124 118,652

Land Area 726 sq. mi. 47.1 sq. mi.

Education UVA, Piedmont Colorado State University

Founded 1764 1864
Monticello, UVA, Microbreweries, CSU, Museum
Tourism of Contemporary Art
Downtown Mall
VA Film Festival, Festival of Book, Brewer’s Festival, Colorado
Culture Festival of Photograph Marathon, Lincoln Center


What to Take Away

We are looking at botanical gardens that have been
established and successful within cities that are culturally,
historically, and geographically similar to Charlottesville.

These cities are also considered some of the best places to live
in America.

These cities share similar goals of progress with the City of
Charlottesville.


Public-Private Partnership



The garden is owned and
maintained by the City of
Bellevue's Parks and
Community Services
Department in conjunction
with the Bellevue Botanical
Garden Society and its
Garden Partners.


City’s Role
The garden is owned and maintained by the City of Bellevue's Parks
and Community Services Department.

The Resource Management Division manages over 650 acres of
developed park land in 75 developed parks. It provides landscape
management and structural management responsibilities including
community centers, restrooms, and other park buildings.

Maintain park amenities and water features, signage, outdoor
lighting, fencing and playgrounds throughout Bellevue’s park system.

A combination of in-house staff, contracted services, volunteers and
partnerships provide these services.


City’s Role: How is Park
Money Spent?
Park & Community Services Budget, 2009
($89,968,991)

8%2%8%
7% Probation Services
Recreation Services
11%
Resource Planning
Project Management
Human Services
64% Parks Enterprise Services


City’s Role: Where does the
Money Come From?
Bellevue Botanical
In 2008, approved tax levy Other Areas
to invest in Parks & Natural 5%
Areas. $2M

Costs a typical homeowner
about $71 per year for the
next 20 years.
95%
Only $660,000 for 2009 for
all included parks.


Bellevue Botanical Garden Society
Revenue, 2007 Direct Public Support, 2008
2004
10%

8% 2005
1%2%
2006
Total: $379,169
79% 2007

2008
Direct Public Support
Program Services 0 150,000 300,000 450,000 600,000
Savings
Special Events
Gifts, Grants, Contributions
Sales Admissions, Sales


Total Revenue Estimation

6%

24%

70%

Tax Levy Parks Funds
Non-proﬁt


Inniswood Metro Garden
is a facility of the Franklin
County Metro Parks.
Operation and maintenance
funds are provided by the
District.

Continued growth and
development are contingent
upon gifts from private
citizens and philanthropic
organizations.


City’s Role: Where Does the
Money Come From?
Metro Parks Revenue, 2009

4.5%
Property Tax Levy
13.5%
6% Land Govt. Funds
Local Acquisition
58%
17%
Govt. Grants
Other


City’s Role: How is the
Money Distributed?
Budget, 2009
Projected 2010 Budget:
$2,647,050 4%
17%
Batelle Blacklick Blendon Chestnut
Darby Creek Woods Woods Ridge 39%

Heritage
Clear Creek
Glacier
Park and Highbanks 26%
Ridge
Trail
14%
Inniswood
Prarie Oaks Metro
Scioto Personnel
Audubon
Gardens Park Ops & Admin
Capital Improvement Projects
Slate Run
Sharon Three Pickerington
Park and Land Acquisition
Woods Creeks Ponds
Farm
Golf Course


Inniswood Garden Society
Revenue, 2007 Direct Public Support

2005

26%
2006

51%
2007
Total: $60,115
23%
2008

0 11,750 23,500 35,250 47,000
Investments
Gifts, Grants, Contributions
Membership



29%

71%

Parks Funds Non-proﬁt


Gardens on Spring Creek
The Gardens on Spring
Creek was first envisioned
in 1986 but the first critical
step in development did
not come until 1995, when
its founding non-profit
group successfully
convinced the Fort Collins
city council to initiate a
city-funded community
horticulture program.


City’s Role
Natural Areas Budget, 2009
(Within Cultural and Recreational Budget) The positive results of
that program's dozens of
13% gardens and gardening
$334,000
projects were then used
as a springboard to
secure the endorsement
of voters in a 1997
87% municipal election,
resulting in three million
dollars in city funding to
Gardens on Spring Creek build the Gardens on
Natural Areas Spring Creek.


Friends of the Gardens on
Spring Creek
Revenue, 2007 Program Service Revenue

13% Harvest Festival
29%
Landscape Workshop
Total: $21,768
8% Sales
50%
0 1,750 3,500 5,250 7,000

Program Service Revenue
Savings
Membership


6%

94%

Parks Funds Non-proﬁt


What to Take Away
These botanical gardens were initiated by non-profits.

Each city provides maintenance, while each non-profit provides
supplementary public support where the city cannot in order to
implement change.

Each city draws on existing Parks budget, grants, and taxes to help
fund garden.

The presence of a non-profit is crucial in both raising funds and
managing a botanical garden.

This public/private model is economically sustainable.


Tourism


Tourism Details
Bellevue Inniswood Spring Creek

2006

2008 2007
2008
2009 2008
0 75,000 150,000
2009
0 240,000 480,000
0 10,000 20,000 30,000 40,000


Education, Arts, and
Culture


Garden d’Lights

The Living Lab Program provides science and botany-related
educational opportunities for youth

Adult education- drawing, media exploration


Conducted programs for over
10,000 children and adults with
over 4,500 children participating
in summer programs.

Presented “Big Bugs” exhibit to
over 600,000 visitors

Programs include: Stroller Stroll,
Garden walks, preschool in the
Garden, landscaping and
pruning classes, plant sales, yoga
in the Garden


Gardens on Spring Creek
In 2009, The Gardens offered 46
adult education classes on
gardening, crafting, and art,
resulting in a large increase in
attendance with close to 350
people attending classes.

Adults: Landscape workshops,
constructing rock garden, pruning

Youth: Summer camps, ‘Read &
Seed’

2007: Harvest Festival


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