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R-82-11 <br />RESOLUTION <br />CITY OF LAKE ELMO <br />WAS'HINGTON COUNTY, MINNESOTA <br />A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE METROPOLITAN <br />COUNCIL TO FIND THE LAKE ELMO REGIONAL <br />PARK RESERVE AN INCONSISTENT SITE FOR A <br />SOLID WASTE LANDFILL. <br />WHEREAS, Washington County has submitted part of <br />the Lake Elmo Regional Park Reserve to the Metropolitan <br />Council as a candidate site for a solid waste landfill; <br />and, <br />WHEREAS, a solid waste landfill is not a park and <br />open space use and is therefore inconsistent with Metro- <br />politan Council policy; and, <br />WIiEREAS, placing a solid waste landfill in the <br />Regional Park Reserve would violate the restrictive cov- <br />enants on the use of the property; and, <br />WHEREAS, there are other potentially suitable sites <br />in Washington County; <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL <br />0'F THE CITY OF LAKE ELMO: <br />The City of Lake Elmo requests: <br />1. That the Metropolitan Council determine that <br />the candidate solid waste landfill site in the <br />Lake Elmo Regional Park Reserve is inconsistent <br />with Council policies that protect park and <br />recreational open space areas. <br />2. That the Metropolitan Council determine that said <br />site is inconsistent because of a restrictive <br />covenant in the land acquisition contract between <br />the Council and Washington County. <br />ADOPED, this the 2nd. day of March, 1982, by the City Council, <br />City of Lake Elmo. <br />Signed: <br />Mayna� L. E er, Mayor ^� <br />EST: ! <br />Laurence E. Whittaker <br />City Administrator <br />