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AGENDA ITEM 4 C h December 14, 1992 Mr. Tom Hovey Area Hydrologist Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Metro Waters, 1200 Warner Road St. Paul, Minnesota 55106 RE: PERMIT APPLICATION 93-6042, BRANDYWOOD ESTATES PARK, TRAIL CROSSING OF PROTECTED WETLAND 2-555W, CITY OF LINO LAKES, ANOKA COUNTY Dear Mr. Hovey: This letter is in response to your November 25, 1992, letter which indicated concerns for the above referenced permit application. Specifically, your letter requests additional information concerning h alternatives or rationale for why our proposed design is the only feasible alternative. The Brandywood Estates development initially was proposed to the City of Lino Lakes as a concept plan on March 28, 1990. As part of the planning process for the park area, we have in our file a letter from STS Consultants, Ltd. describing the absence of wetland conditions at the park site. Thus it appeared to us that we had a positive situation for park and trail entry points. Please see the enclosure (STS Project 94951-A). The preliminary plat approval for this plat occurred on June 8, 1990. Your letter of October 24, 1990 (enclosed) is consistent with the STS letter. By Spring of 1991, grading operations had begun on the first phase of the development. Basically, the City and the developer were locked into this approved residential housing plan at this time. Substantial dollars had been spent. The park in the southeast side of the development was set. During the same timeframe in August of 1990, parks and recreation staff realized the need to comprehensively look at the parks and trail requirements for the City. Accelerating city growth and the very expensive prospect of providing parks and recreational opportunity for future residents prompted us to hire Brauer and Associates to do this for us. The plan has been completed and adopted by our City Council. The park and trail plan lays out a system of parks and trails that will service area residents. The trail plan depicts the corridors for the various modes of travel between parks as well as between parks and developed areas. Please see the enclosed trail system legend. With respect to this plan, the specific trails within each park area are designed at the time that each development is proposed. Generally, within the context of our comprehensive plan, a primary goal is to provide a way for people to get through each development and in and out of each park.