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Sue Walseth 5 no trails, nor shoulders. And there is no trail along Birch Street from 12th Avenue to D.Erickson 2nd Addition — and Birch Street has heavy traffic. • I have been waiting since 1994, for this park access to become a reality. My kids were still in Centerville School. But so many years have gone by, my kids are now grown up and in college, without having this park access trail available to them. Fortunately we had 5 acres of land for them to romp on. Right now, there are many young children in the area, living on small residential lots.. Please don't procrastinate for years again, so that these Trappers' Crossing children all grow up, without having a park available — and then when it finally built, these children will be too old, and no longer interested in playing in parks. • The city is reluctant to spend $15,000 in a condemnation process so that Trappers' Crossing will have a simple park access to `Birch Park" — yet will spend $20,000 and $125,000 for other subdivisions. Our developments on Holly Drive contributed over $92,000 in park dedication, but we still have no park!!! • A new "skate board" park is being installed at "City Hall Park ", which was planned in 1998. The trail to `Birch Park" from the north cul -de -sac in Trappers' Crossing had been approved in May 1994 — 4 years earlier. The Fall 2001 Lino Lakes Quarterly Newsletter stated that the 'Park Board" committed to purchasing $20,000 in skate board equipment. So where does the "Park Board" get their money? From the pool of park dedication fees contributed by developers — of which our neighborhood donated $92,000 — and can't even get a trail access? • In the same Fall 2001 Lino Lakes Quarterly Newsletter, it stated that Clearwater Creek subdivision, which was approved about a year -plus AFTER Trappers' Crossing - -- was awarded a $125,000 DNR Outdoor Recreation Grant for the development of "Clearwater Creek Park." The article stated that the city must match $125,000 in order to receive this grant. It stated that this $125,000 will consist of funds from the "General Fund" and again the "Park Dedication Fund" and a possible future bond referendum.