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-3- <br />Commissioner Fedor then recommended the following motion: <br />MSP (Fedor/Scott) to direct the City park maintenance staff <br />to create a natural barrier with plantings along the drainage <br />ditch along the northwest corner generally following the tot <br />lot of Woodcrest Park and not to exceed $200 from the City <br />Contingency Fund. The motion passed. 0 Nays <br />8 Ijyes <br />Staff further expanded on the need for the establishment of <br />a generat fencing policy and discussed a number of general <br />policies that could be adopted. <br />Following 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 following general policy statements <br />to serve as guidelines for the establishment of future fencing <br />in City parks: <br />(1) Parks and public property are designed and established for <br />the general use of all City residents and should 6e 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 welfare of the Mounds View residents> the <br />following guidelines should be adhered to: <br />A. Staff would recommend that shrubbery, trees or other <br />like foliage be used in place of man-made materials. <br />B. Fencing in general detracts fram the visuai aesthetics <br />of park property. <br />C. Water area, when properly controlled and designed, is a <br />welceme and integral aspect of the City's park system <br />and should be encouraged and created whenever possible. <br />It is not financially feasible nor plausible to fence <br />each of the City's water areas because of potential <br />safety hazards. <br />D. Wherever a potentiat water hazard should exist, the <br />City sha11 place a warning sign near the area to <br />enhance the citizen's level of safety consciousness. <br />E. Whenever man-made fences are to be installed, it �' <br />should be of a wooden and/or earth-tone to blend ' <br />into the environment as much as possible. ��+,� <br />F. Whenever fences are installed, proper access through :,.;�,'�..� <br />the use of gates, fences overlappin9 and/or openings, <br />shall be considered in the design process. ;� <br />The motion passed. 8 �S '.�..� <br />i� <br />si <br />`;i <br />?S� <br />z <br />