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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Memo to Park and Recre. I CommissionIP 99.9 <br />. August 11,1999 <br />Page 2 <br /> <br />. Incorporate the Meadowvale Heights Park Concept Plan into the plat. <br />. Tree preservation <br />. Grading and filling <br />· Sidewalks on main road <br />. Clustered mailboxes <br />. ~ Looped water mains <br />. Buffering along County Road No. 1 <br /> <br />Last February, the Park and Recreation Commission reviewed the concept <br />plans and gave the developer the following preliminary comments: <br /> <br />. That a trail be installed as part of the development. <br />. That the park land dedication be dry land with the trail on dry land. <br />. That there be a 20 foot minimum distance maintained between the trail <br />and back yard property lines. <br /> <br />Pro Dosed Park <br /> <br />At present the park consists of 12.30 acres with 3.79 acres of high ground and <br />8.51 acres of wetland. In addition to the wetlands, the developer has located a <br />NURP pond (pond to collect pollutants and runoff) and a wetland mitigation <br />area behind lots 7,8 and 9, Block 3 (see attached annotated preliminary plat <br />B). No sidewalks have been shown along streets and no trail has been ~hown <br />in the park. Adjacent to Lots 10 and 11, Block 3, the park is too narrow to <br />accommodate the Commission's request for a 12 foot bituminous trail <br />between the wetland and rear property lines. The park has 360 feet of street <br />frontage, but the area has a 1:5 (20%) slope towards the wetland and is <br />relatively unusable for parking or structures. <br /> <br />Analvsis <br /> <br />Overall, the proposed park conforms to the Park Concept Plan prepared by <br />staff by creating an opportunity to have a trail loop around the wetland with <br />two boardwalk wetland crossings. <br /> <br />Consistent with recent plats and current park dedication policy, credit for <br />park dedication would be given for the 3.79 acres of dry park land. The 3.79 <br />acres represents only 5.4% of the plat area, therefore, the Commission has an <br />opportunity to ask for an additional 3 acres of park land to be consistent with <br />Section 1008.18, of the Subdivision Ordinance. Staff recommends that Lots <br />10 and 11, Block 3 (.57 acres), be added to the park to increase the frontage <br />on the public street, to provide some useable high ground for park purposes, <br />and to better accommodate the 12' bituminous trail (See Attached Annotated <br />Preliminary Plat A). If the Commission feels the size and configuration of the <br /> <br />\ \elkriver\sys\shrdoc\pl anning\stevewen\parkmmo \p99-9 .doc <br />