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� T0: Parks e i Comnission FROM: Staff RE: Silver View Park Acquisition Status On Wednesday, June 20, a meeting was held with two representatives from Kraus-Anderson, Mr. Dale Cremers and Mr. Dan Engelsma, along with Park Commissioners Haake, Silvis and Scott, and Council members Rowley and Ziebarth. The meeting lasted approximately 1; hours with Kraus-Anderson presenting their general proposal for the development of Oak Lake Park. Staff will be reviewing the Kraus-Anderson proposal in detail with the Co�nission on Thursday, specifical7y as it relates to the acquisition of additional acreage and impact of their proposed development on the park. Staff would recomnend that the Parks & Recreation Comnition recommend to the City Planning Commission the following: 1. Silver View Park should be located at the corner of Silver Lake Road and County Road I with the main park entrance coming off of County Road I. 2. To direct City Attorney Meyers to negotiate with Kraus-Anderson a minimum of 30-35 acres of park land through outright purchase, tand "swap" of the City's existing 16.9 acres and future park dedication. 3. That the park land would have access and frontage to the proposed Oak Lake Park with trail corridors provided by the developer which would provide access from County Road H-2, Long Lake Road, County Road I and Silver Lake Road. 4. that Kraus-Anderson provide an easement around the entire proposed Oak Lake wide enaugh for an 8-foot bituminous hiking and biking traii to be installed. 5. That the Park Commission supports the concept of the development of Oak Lake totalling 12.6 acres in size. 6. That the Parks & Recreation Commission also supports the Kraus-Anderson proposal for low to medium density housing. The second option the Park Commission has is as follows: 1. To retain the existing 16.9 park site at the intersection of Silver Lake Road and County Road H-2. 2. To authorize Attorney Meyers to acquire a minimal additional acreage of 14 acres directly adjecent to and south of the existing park s1te. 3. To develop the park site as originally proposed and submitted by Staff in June. 1978. We received the final contract for acquisit7on in the mail on Tuesday. June 26, 1979, whlch allavs us to begin negot9attons as soon as posstble. As can be noted in the attached letter to Mr. Dale Cremers, our time line for negotiations is as follows: Thursday, June 28, 1979 - Park and Recreatton Commisston