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Mounds View City Council July 27, 1987 Regular Meeting Ak an Lindberg, 5236 Red Oak Drive, stated she is a Girl Gout leader for two different troops, and she would like to see the building placed at Random Park. She presented the Council with a petition of signatures from the parents of her Girl Scouts, stating they would like the building placed there. She also pointed out it is a nice building for people in the neighborhood to use, for such things as block parties, card parties and so forth. She added she does not feel Woodcrest would be a good option at this time for placement of the building. She also stated that Random Park would be a good location as students could walk there from chool, and not require their parents to leave work to pick them up from school to drive them to their activities, and parking would not be a problem for the two groups she is involved with. Mary Ann Wey, 5220 Skiba, stated the park is nice for tiny tots and she does not want any added traffic there. Dan Boxrud, of Short Elliott- Hendrickson, reviewed the general drainage issues for the area, stating that the intersection of Long Lake Road and Ridge Lane does flood at times, and there is an emergency overflow to the southeast. He added that if any changes are made to Random Park, it would be extremely difficult o calculate the effect it would have. He pointed ut that one yard should have the landscape berm cut back approximately 6" on both ends, to better facility drainage from the back yards. He also recommended the sliding hill be modified slightly to continue drainage along the north side of the building to the Long Lake Road ditch. Mr. Boxrud reviewed his recommendation on construction of the parking lot, stating that only the amount of fill necessary to reach the grade of the building, convey storm water along the north side of the lot and accomcdate a driveway culvert should be placed, with the parking lot tilted to the southwest to avoid filling as much as possible. He also recommended an 18" corrugated metal pipe be laid under the driveway. Councilmember Quick stated they plan to have four courses of block under the building, and questioned if it could flood. Mr. Boxrud replied that it should not, as the water would run off to the southeast, and he presented an overhead of the topography of the area. Tom Foster, 2516 Ridge Lane, questioned the capacity of the storm sewer system, and Mr. Crook stated the area as flooded 5 times in the past 3 years. Page Three