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r <br /> NEIGHBORHOODS <br /> WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1989 <br /> NoRTH . <br /> • <br /> . • .. . .. . <br /> . • <br /> . . <br /> , 4, <br /> • • . . <br /> , . <br /> . , <br /> ... <br /> i _ <br /> • : .... <br /> ST.PAUL PIONEER PRESS DISPATCH <br /> t <br /> U <br /> Fut �tr)[e nature park' • : � � <br /> • _ <br /> ti son Lake i• <br /> . <br /> e <br /> `t-. <br /> '8aIdf:agle Lake <br /> • <br /> North Oaks <br /> �y j <br /> J <br /> ,F <br /> n A <br /> • <br /> White Bear gainsJ. .... <br /> .• While Bear Lake <br /> t�roposed o <br /> . + . park site :..::: 9th St: .... J.. <br /> nature trails park . > Y�. ....:„:„„,:„.. <br /> B Ann Baker Birch Lake Blvd BIR <br /> Y <br /> Staff Writer <br /> • <br /> White Bear Lake will gain a 29-acre park on.the north shore of 96 <br /> Birch Lake next year by a unanimous action of the city council last , Whale 4.41A. it'i <br /> week. J. <br /> ea <br /> Planned as the city's first nature area with trails, boardwalks m White BearTownshtp <br /> and picnic areas, it will be the third-largest 1" m �-< .A <br /> P g park in the city and I s GaoseLake <br /> someday may be tied by a trail to Tamarack Nature Center a short t. <br /> distance north in White Bear Township. ( I <br /> p.City Manager Mark Sather said the park will help protect wild- Staff Graphic <br /> life.Only Podvin and Lakewood Hills parks are larger,and both are ;i <br /> primarily athletic complexes. 1 ark . . . _._. <br /> ----- <br /> ____ . <br /> ___.. <br /> "This is a prime piece of property that will provide several hun- <br /> dred feet of frontage on the lake,"Sather said."It helps balance the <br /> need to develop that area for business against the needs of the 1. <br /> present residents. It will be a beautiful park and a strategic buff- 1 Continued from Page 1 McCormack, who 'said the 'city <br /> should not be in the business of <br /> The city will buy the park for $500,000 out of tax increment city's northwest corner,west of In- helping a developer raise his <br />¶financing bonds issued to CSM Corp. of Minneapolis for a $10.5 terstate 35E. The city council project's value. <br /> million town house project on the east edge of the park agreed to buy the park when 85 of Earlier, the council approves <br /> CSM also built the 300-unit White Bear Woods apartments in the . the 114 town house units are fin- $10.5 million in tax-exempt multi- <br /> Please see Park/2 ;shed sometime next year. family bonds for the town houses, <br /> The Birch Lake Townhomes also on condition that 20 percent of the <br /> ' -received$130,000 in tax increment units will be available to people <br /> bonds for utilities and brick facing, with modest incomes. Rene <br /> over the objections of council expected to be $600 to $ a <br /> . members Ernie McCarty and Don month. <br /> • <br /> • <br />