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Memo to Park and Recreation Commission/P 99-9 July 14, 1999 Page 2 • • Incorporate the Meadowvale Heights Park Concept Plan into the plat. • Tree preservation • Grading and filling • Sidewalks on main road • Clustered mailboxes • Looped water mains • Buffering along County Road No. 1 Last February, the Park and Recreation Commission reviewed the concept plans and gave the developer the following preliminary comments: • That a trail be installed as part of the development. • That the park land dedication be dry land with the trail on dry land. • That there be a 20 foot minimum distance maintained between the trail and back yard property lines. Proposed Park At present the park consists of 12.30 acres with 3.79 acres of high ground and 8.51 acres of wetland. In addition to the wetlands, the developer has located a NURP pond (pond to collect pollutants and runoff) and a wetland mitigation area behind lots 7,8 and 9, Block 3 (see attached annotated preliminary plat • B). No sidewalks have been shown along streets and no trail has been shown in the park. Adjacent to Lots 10 and 11, Block 3, the park is too narrow to accommodate the Commission's request for a 12 foot bituminous trail between the wetland and rear property lines. The park has 360 feet of street frontage, but the area has a 1:5 (20%) slope towards the wetland and is relatively unusable for parking or structures. Analysis Overall, the proposed park conforms to the Park Concept Plan prepared by staff by creating an opportunity to have a trail loop around the wetland with two boardwalk wetland crossings. Consistent with recent plats and current park dedication policy, credit for park dedication would be given for the 3.79 acres of dry park land. The 3.79 acres represents only 5.4% of the plat area, therefore, the Commission has an opportunity to ask for an additional 3 acres of park land to be consistent with Section 1008.18, of the Subdivision Ordinance. Staff recommends that Lots 10 and 11, Block 3 (.57 acres), be added to the park to increase the frontage on the public street, to provide some useable high ground for park purposes, and to better accommodate the 12' bituminous trail (See Attached Annotated Preliminary Plat A). If the Commission feels the size and configuration of the f:\shrdoc\planning\stevewen\parkmmo\p99-9.doc