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CITY OF LINO LAKES PARK BOARD MEETING MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1994 developers to completely finish all dedicated trails including the asphalt surfaces. He explained that he is looking at the City of Lakeville' s trail dedication plan as a model. George stated we have to substantiate a change in the ordinance. Marty said it must be fair and equitable and how do you, as a Park Board, justify what is being done and the need. We have to come up with a figure and reflect that back on the total trail needs through the year 2010. Brian said the methodology of taking the overall cost of the whole system and dividing it equally between all users is being used all over with capitol improvements for sewer, for water, etc. George said the developer is still responsible for providing the land as indicated by the Comprehensive Park Plan, but we as a City would pay for the development and finishing of these trails from the determined dedication fee. Marty said what we need to tie together is the cost of the trails and the relationship to projected housing density so a dollar figure can be reached. There was also discussion on boardwalk cost per foot and trail cost per foot. This will also have to be factored into the new dedicated trail fee. RECOMMENDATION: George recommended that we pursue a new trail dedication ordinance and be willing to spend money on engineering fees to evaluate cost of trail systems and project an average cost per foot and average cost per building lot. Brian said that most of the necessary work has been completed. We already have the lengths of all the trails setup and Michael Krech, City of Lino Lakes Engineering Tech, is working on developing the projections for the number of lots. It should not take much more time to complete this. Before adjourning Marty said that Amy Donlin had called him with a couple of issues. One was a trail issue off Woodridge Lane which enters onto the MaryAnn McDugal property. MaryAnn is concerned about cars going onto her property. Marty explained that the trail is posted but barricades are going to be placed at the end to help prevent this from happening. The other issue was expansion of parks on private property. He mentioned that when he and George met with the people in the Brandywood area future park expansion was discussed. He said that wrong information had gotten to property owners in the southern part of the city and the people were upset with what they had heard. Amy feels property owners should be notified and informed as to what is anticipated to happen in their area. Brian asked if the property owners had been given the opportunity 7