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Parks and Recreation Commission Minutes September 10, 2025 --------- Page 3 of 14 Commissioner Fermoyle asked if there was a driveway on the map up by holes six and seven. Mr. Schreder said he believes it was connected to the house up there. Chair Anderson said it is a field road that they had walked on when they were out there. Mr. Schreder said he used an app on his phone that shows properties, but he isn’t sure if holes seven and eight are considered on the property or not. Commissioner Niziolek told him if he went to Sherburne County Beacon, he could get his answer really quick. Chair Anderson said if you google Sherburne County and then type in beacon it will give you a map of the county, but Mr. Shelby could get you one too. Chair Anderson asked Mr. Shelby and Mr. Stremcha if they were going to get some additional property up by hole seven. If the parking lot ended up on the top, would he just renumber the holes. Mr. Schreder said essentially what he did was create an 18-hole course that flowed well. He said you could have parking down by the entrance to the park as well. Mr. Schreder said he could also do a different layout. Chair Anderson said he has another question for staff. What is the current status of the development? Mr. Shelby said, according to Community Development, he thinks that they are looking at final approval this coming summer 2026. That is also the time that possession and ownership of the access road comes to the City of Elk River. He shared that it is a condition of the final plat approval, and he believes that is what is targeted right now. Chair Anderson asked where people should be parking in the interim. Mr. Shelby said that is a good question and that his understanding is that there was a little friction last weekend with the hunting taking place at the park, so to be on the safe side of things, probably County Rd. 33. Mr. Shelby said that way there is no conflict in terms of in the past. There was some sort of understanding that it was okay to access the road as long as no cars were not blocking or impeding the road, and he knows they had that conversation at the beginning of the summer, and it seems like that has changed for whatever reason so for the time being he doesn’t know if they want to be using that road, but he doesn’t have all the details of whatever conversations happened last weekend. Chair Anderson said he thinks Bill is moving, the current owner. He said he isn’t the owner; he is renting from the folks that bought it. He asked Mr. Shelby if it would make any sense to have a dialog with the property owner. Mr. Shelby said potentially, but he thinks there was dialog previously though, too. Mr. Shelby said dialog is always good to try and figure out that understanding, and he thinks potentially when they talked to Josh Baas, the Parks Maintenance Foremen this morning, thinking about what access would look like if they were to get in there this fall and start moving anything, what would the access look like. He said there was some thought to maybe it’s going in off of Cty. Rd 33 behind the property that is right where our actual parcel starts, so as to not create any conflict of interest using that access road. He shared he doesn’t know. Chair Anderson said it seems to make sense to ask the question. Mr. Shelby said that Mr. Baas was going to speak with the Community Development Department this morning, and he doesn’t know the outcome of that conversation. Commissioner Niziolek said he would discourage the parking along Cty Rd. 33 because it is such a busy road. If they could get something such as a safer parking opportunity it would be great. Chair Anderson said the whole point of this morphing conversation is that they should determine parking and access before they do much of anything and that is what Mr. Baas is doing. Mr. Shelby agreed, and said Mr. Baas’ intent is to connect with Mr. Schreder in the next week or so, so they can actually meet out at the park to kind of walk through some different things and talk about things like that as well, so that would be kind of the next step in this process.