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Introduction • The Elk River Landfill, Inc. (ERL) intends to continue development of their facility to the south, into an area commonly referred to as the South Development Area (SDA). This End Use Plan has been developed to present a series of conceptual end use possibilities to the Elk River City Council. The end use ideas presented in this document are for the property that includes the existing facility, as well as the SDA, and are based on a series of end use related meetings held in 2002 and 2008 with members of the Elk River community as further described herein. The end use information included in this plan was developed following a series of meetings to determine the needs and desires of the surrounding community, first in 2002 and then again in 2008. End use discussions with the City of Elk River for the existing facility and continued development into the SDA initially started back in 2001 with discussions with the City of Elk River staff. These discussions then evolved into a series of meetings in early 2002 with members of surrounding community, including Livonia Township. Following the completion of the process in 2002, an End Use Master Plan was developed that reflected the end use vision chosen by the stakeholders group. The concepts developed during the 2002 end use planning process, as well as the final plan recommendations from the 2002 process are included as part of this document. Then in early 2008, as the ERL began preparing to formally submit an application to the City of Elk River for the continued development onto the SDA, the 2002 end use planning materials were reviewed. However, based on discussions ERL had with City of Elk River staff and City • Council members, the ERL determined that the end use documents prepared in 2002 may need to be updated to better reflect the desires of the City and the vision the City has for the Highway 169 corridor. Thus, end use discussions were reinitiated in early 2008 with a meeting between the ERL and City staff. Following this meeting with City staff, the ERL worked with URS to take the information gained in their discussions with City Council Members and City staff and developed three sets of conceptual layouts to reflect these discussions. These conceptual plans were then presented to City staff, and after a few additional modifications, the three conceptual plans were presented the City's Parks and Recreation Commission. Over several months in the summer of 2008, the ERL modified these conceptual drawings based on comments and questions from members of the Parks and Recreation Commission. During discussions with the Parks and Recreation Commission an additional concept was added to the three originally developed, which included the ERL developing a park at an off-site location. The four end use concepts developed during the 2008 end use planning process are included as part of this document. At the Parks and Recreation Commission meeting on November 12, 2008, the Parks and Recreation Commission reaffirmed the vision the stakeholders had in 2002 by again recommending the end use plan selected in 2002; thus their recommendation is that the future end use for the facility be a combination of passive recreational use with some commercial opportunity at the intersection of Highway 169 and 221St Avenue. •