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Park S -t 4AV/c AWNIN6 <br />Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission <br />Minutes of April 23, 1990 <br />o By the year 2000, regional parks will suffer reduced or no state funds to work with. <br />o Infrastructure will be past useful service, needing replacement or, rehabilitation. <br />o Will current plans meet the needs of special populations? <br />o Segregation could continue to be a problem, not only in parks but throughout the fabric of <br />this region. <br />o There is an increasing interest in making public facilities and services fee-for-service entities. <br />There is a concurrent trend to a divergently stratified society, on an economic have and have- <br />not criterion. How can this be rectified without excluding the have-nots from use of public <br />features such as recreation lands? <br />o Education, both K-12 and post -secondary, will move even further outside the classroom. <br />o Environment is a major concern; <br />- public concern is even wider than recognized. <br />- problems of environmental degradation are large, probably more severe than now <br />known. <br />- global warming, is real, not mythical. <br />- parks may assume greater importance as islands of preservation than they do now. <br />- noise and visual pollution will attract more attention than they do now. <br />o Other regional problems will overshadow parks. <br />o The current trend to active recreation lifestyles is leading to conflict with active users and <br />those who continue to seek low -impact natural area recreation open space preservation. Not <br />only in recreation, there is growing competition for the use of dwindling resources. <br />o Providers of regional services/facilities must market them to the extent that the public <br />continues to be aware of them, continues to use them, and continues to support them to <br />fiscal policy makers. <br />o Though park -user demand increases, and every population change that's been observed <br />since the inception of the system seems to be another factor which increases park demands, <br />the commission believes that it can state, with confidence, that one hundred years from now, <br />the only parts of the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area that are likely to look as they do today are <br />the parks. <br />ANNOUNCEMENTS/OTHER BUSINESS <br />Mauritz said the next commission meeting would be May 14. <br />Meeting adjourned at 6:44 p.m. <br />Respectfully submitted, <br />Jane E. Larson, Secretary <br />Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission <br />7 <br />