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-�- <br />Commissioner fedor then recomnended the following motion: <br />MSP (fedor/Scott) to direct the City park maintenance staff <br />to create a naturat barrier with ptantings along the drainage <br />ditch along the northwest corner generally following the tot <br />iot of Woodcrest Park and not to exceed $200 from the City <br />Contingency Fund. The motion passed. 0 Nays <br />8 qyes <br />Staff further expanded on the need for the establishment of <br />a general fencing policy and discussed a number of general <br />policies that coutd be adopted. <br />Followin9 staff's presentation, a motion was made by Chairman <br />Burmeister as follows: <br />MSP (Burmeister/Linke) that the Mounds View Park and Recreation <br />Commission hereby adopts the foltowing general policy statements <br />to serve as guidelines for the establishment of future fencing <br />in City parks: <br />(1) Parks and pubtic property are designed and established for <br />the general use of alt City residents and should be as <br />barrier and handicapped free as possible to promote the <br />maximum use of the facilities. <br />(2) Wherever a barrier is required because of the health, <br />safety and wetfare of the Mounds View residents, the <br />following guidelines should be adhered to: <br />A. Staff would recortmend that shrubbery, trees or other <br />like fotiage be used in place of man-made materials. <br />8. Fencing in general detracts from the visual aesthetics <br />of park property. <br />C. Water area, when properly contro7led and designed, is a <br />welcome and integral aspect of the City's park system <br />and should be encouraged and created whenever possibl2. <br />It is not financially feasible nor plausible ta fence <br />each of the City's water areas because of potential <br />safe�ty hazard,. <br />D. Wherever a potential water hazard should exist, the <br />City sha11 place a warning sign near the area to <br />enharce the citizen's level of safety consciousness. <br />E. Whenever man-made fences are to be insta7led, it <br />should be of a wooden and/or earth-tane to blend <br />into the environment as much as possible. <br />F. Whenever fences are insta7led, proper access through <br />the use of gates, fences overlapping and/or openings, <br />shall be considered in the design process. <br />Tne motion passed. 0 Nays <br />8 qyes <br />