CARLSBAD — The city held a final public meeting June 30 to examine allowable uses for some of the last remaining open space in the city.

City officials have said Proposition D, approved by voters in 2006 to protect what is called the Cannon Road Agricultural Lands, encompasses the existing Carlsbad Flower Fields, and three additional parcels.

According to Sandra Holder, community development director for the city of Carlsbad, the recent meeting was the “final event” in a long series of public meetings the city has held.

About 35 people attended.

“The participants prepared guiding principals,” Holder said. “They also had an exercise and they drew their visions of what they wanted to see happen.”

Although the parcels of land are privately owned, the city is planning now for future development.

“We presented a final-use list,” Gary Barberio, assistant planning director for the city of Carlsbad, said.

Barberio said using the guiding principals and drawing from the use list, the participants sketched out what they thought should happen.

Topping the list of uses were continued agriculture, trails and recreational uses. Civic and public gathering places, an amphitheater, an aquarium and art gallery also made the list.

SDG&E owns just under 200 acres, the largest portion of the Cannon Road Agricultural Lands, on the eastern side of the freeway. The land is now home to strawberry fields.

The 53.4-acre Carlsbad Flower Fields is exempt from development as it was protected in 1996 by the city.

The popular tourist attraction is home to the ranunculus and owned by the Carltas Company, the development arm of the Ecke flower-growing company, along with the 45.6 acres just north of the Carlsbad Flower Fields.

An additional 26.4 acres, just north of Legoland, is now owned by M & A Gabaee.

The city put together a Prop. D Citizen’s Liaison Committee and held two large workshops last fall, with four smaller ones in March.

A final workshop in April focused on different aspects of the development of the property, said Cynthia Haas, manager of economic and real estate development for the city of Carlsbad.

Haas said the groups discussed passive, active, cultural and civic uses for each of the three properties in question.

City officials have said the goal of development of the property is to create a “sustainable area that balances social, economic and environmental values important to the community.”

City officials said they cannot tell property owners what to build, but will have the voted-on allowable uses for them to choose from if and when the time comes.