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2  What are the community’s values and how should they be reflected in our public parks and civic institutional spaces like libraries and court houses?  What is the purpose of Emancipation and Justice Parks?  Are the y memorial space s (who or what to memorialize?)  Are they outdoor museums (what stories should they tell?)  What is the appropriate character and scale of community gathering and event spaces in the City’s downtown parks and can Emancipation and Justice Parks be made to accommodate those parameters in light of our community’s values? o Engage the community in a m anner that ensures the City’s underrepresented populations are fulsomely included in the process, as well as the Board of Architectural Review (BAR) the Historic Resources Commission, the Human Rights Commission, the University of Virginia, the PLACE Desig n Task Force, Planning Commission and City Council. o Ensure that a facilitator (s) with demonstrated expertise in the history of the American South and African Americans, social equity, urban design and urban redevelopment issues is an integral part of the consultant team, and that said facilitator(s) leads a community engagement process in a manner that elicits authentic feedback from the entire community such that it genuinely informs the work of the design and technical professionals on the consultant te am . o Provide a well -designed and coherent interpretation of the Lee and Jackson statues that will promote an honest and complete narrative of Charlottesville’s past and aspirational future in the near -term, knowing that Emancipation and Justice Parks will eventually be more fully redesigned subsequent to the removal of both the Lee and Jackson statues . o Replace the current plaque at the slave auction block with one that is more prominent and legible; o Investigate the relevance of the Court Square area to the Reconstruction era and if affirmed, recommend a method of acknowledgment . o Work with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) to appropriately place and install the EJI lynching marker to commemorate the July 12, 1898 lynching of John Henry James, an African Ame rican from Charlottesville . o Create plans for the rehabilitation of the most severely deteriorated landscapes within Emancipation and Justice Parks and the grounds surrounding the Jefferson Madison Regional Library (in collaboration and coordination with the JMRL), knowing that Emancipation and Justice Parks will eventually be more fully redesigned subsequent to the removal of both the Lee and Jackson statues. • PHASE II -Final Master Plan (to begin, subsequent to the removal of the Lee and Jackson statues): o Build on the shared understandings developed through Phase I’s extensive community engagement process to create new comprehensive designs for Emancipation and Justice parks without the Lee and Jackson statues in place that would include but not be limited to;  A new memorial to Charlottesville’s enslaved population within Justice Park in keeping with the recommendations of the BRC while retaining its ability to function as a community gathering space, and  Explor ing opportunities within Emancipation Park to interpret history through artwork such as murals or other public art forms, in keeping with the recommendations of the BRC while retaining its ability to function as a