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City of Lino Lakes Park Board Meeting Monday, December 4, 1995 Since it will be some time before this site is built on by the school (at least 10 years), we have been given the go-ahead to use it. This is good news in that his is a strategically important area for a neighborhood park for Pheasant Hills Preserve and would have had to purchase land here if any more land was sold off. Recall that some time ago a portion of this school site was traded off for construction of houses. Marty did an overhead slide show and explained to the members that he had included a map of the site in the packets. He continued by saying at this time he has discussed this with Jeff Schoenbauer to present us with a simple sketch plan to begin discussions with the school district, and the neighborhood. He thought he would have a quote for this project at the meeting. Referring to our comprehensive plan, this site has been open land for agriculture, has a drainage way and wetlands, particularly on the west side of the site, and has very little elevation change. Upland soils are predominantly sand. Pedestrian access from the east has been developed. Vehicle access is not developed except for the dead end off of Pheasant Hills Drive that dead ends into the site. Possibilities also exist off of Birch Street. He continued by saying this park, according to our comprehensive plan, is classified as a neighborhood type of park based on development population densities and geographic location. Since the two smaller types of park in this area are intended to be more passive in nature, the use of this area for such park elements such as informal ball field/play fields, hard surface areas such as basketball, volleyball, tennis, and a small parking lot becomes more important. This park is also an important link in our linear trail corridor concept. George asked if there was enough ridged high land to put trails in. Marty said yes, he was sure there are ways to get through there. Amy said she had done some horseback riding in there last weekend and this was a very beautiful area. Marty said he included a copy of a recent agreement that was written between the City of Apple Valley and School District 196, for an example of agreement language. He also included a copy of the previous agreement that was written for this site on Birch Street as well as the agreement that was written for the Rice Lake Elementary site. George asked Marty if the agreement could 10