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ARDAN PARK INTRODUCTION . Review of Mounds View Parks Mounds View Parks system consists of nine park s3tes of which five are established. The remaining four parks are as yet in the planning, acquisition and developing stages. The five established parks consist basically of tot lots, ball fields, skating and hockey rinks, and picnic areas. Pfost of the undeveloped parks will provide similar developments with the additions of tennis courts, sliding hills, path- ways, various ball fields, courts and play arcas, trails and nature areas. Mounds View parks range in size from 2.4 acres to 34.6. The city of Mounds�View 3s divided by Hwy. 10. Seven parks are located on the northern side of Hwy. 10 and [wo parks are located on the sou[hern side of Hwy. 10. Ardan Park Characteristics Ardan Park is one such undeveloped park. It is located near the northern b�undary of Mounds View and lies on the southern side of Trunk Hwy. 10. This park area is 8.8 acres and is a triangular site. Ardan Pazk boundaries include Trunk Hwy. 10, Long Lake Road, and proposed Ardan Avenue (as yet an undeveloped road). Ardan Park is unique to o[her Mounds View parks because i[ contains two holding ponds. In fac[, these holding ponds provide the only water resource of a1S the nine Mounds View parks. Land available in Ardan Park does nor provide adequa[e space for activity areas. The two holding ponds are centrally located in the park and take up a significant area. Ardan Park landscape is extremely level except for pond slopings. The only vegetation is a band of younR trees. Land in the south easLern corner is forest land which is zoned for single dwelling housing. Ardan Park soil.is sand with silt laminations. Permeability is moderate and the soil is susceptaoie to siope erosion. Suil four�daticn .a .`a.rly a�.oag aad compact. Ardan Park is near 3 other parks and one school playground located from 2- 5 blocks from Ardan Park respectively. History The Ardan Park site was originally planned as a holding pond area by the Mounds View city planning commission. Once the ponds had been developed, the land was pmposed for a park development site using the ponds as a resource. Two conditions preceded Mounds View Park Department handling. First, [he holding pond slopes were steep enough[ to endanger children with the possibility of falling into the ponds. Therefore, the alopes needed gtadual sloping. Pond aloping and land grading and filling was completed in 1975 for $5,000. Secondly, the State Hwy. Department easements of Trunk Hwy. 10 has placed a fence on park property along the N.E. boundary, [hus nullifying this section's use availabllity. 'The band of trees has been cleuned and thinned and grass has been seeded. This is the extent of Ardan Park development as of October 25, 1976.