Elizabeth Van Zonneveld , July 27, 1998

In an interview with Troy Reeves on July 27, 1998, Elizabeth Van Zonneveld discusses her involvement with the Boise River Greenbelt project. She recounts how when she first became involved with the Greenbelt as member of the Idaho Environmental Council it was an open space project with no emphasis on pathways. She served as the third Greenbelt Coordinator, after Bill Onweiler and Gay Davis, where her responsibilities were public relations, grant money acquisition, land matching, and land acquirement. She describes the pushback in the early part of the project from landowners who were not open to granting public access through their properties, the accomplishment of getting the Quinn Robbins property, the disappointment of running into pushback from BSU, and the lawsuit with International Dunes motel over a swimming pool that encroached into the setback. Elizabeth discusses her work on other pathway and open space preservation projects in Washington and California, her disappointment at the amount of bike traffic on the Boise River Greenbelt, her hopes for future expansion of the Greenbelt and other trails, and the development of Shoreline Park.