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1204.01 <br />CHAPTER 1204 <br />PUBLIC PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS <br />SECTION: <br />1204.01: Land Acquisitions <br />1204.02: Dedication of Lands <br />1204.02 <br />1204.01: LAND ACQUISITIONS: Where a proposed park, playground, school site or other <br />public site, as shown on the Comprehensive Plan or Open Space Master Plan, is embraced in part <br />or in whole by the boundary of a proposed subdivision and such public sites are not dedicated <br />to the Municipality or Board of Education, such public ground shall be reserved and no action <br />taken toward approval of a subdivision for a period not to exceed ninety (90) days to allow the <br />Council or Board of Education the opportunity to consider and take action toward acquisition of <br />such public ground or park by purchase or other means. (1988 Code §42.12) <br />1204.02: DEDICATION OF LANDS: <br />Subd. 1. Dedication Required: <br />a. Pursuant to Minnesota Statutes 462.358, in all subdivisions to be developed for <br />residential, commercial, industrial or other uses or as a planned development which <br />includes residential, commercial and industrial uses or any combination thereof, a <br />reasonable portion of each proposed subdivision shall be dedicated to the public for public <br />use as parks, playgrounds, public open space, wetlands or storm water holding areas or <br />ponds or, at the option of the Municipality and at its sole discretion, that the subdivider <br />contribute an equivalent amount in cash based on the fair market value of the undeveloped <br />land. (Ord. 474, 9-25-89) <br />b. -Cash payments so received shall be placed in a special fund` and used only for the <br />acquisition of land for parks, playgrounds, public open space and storm water holding <br />areas or ponds, development of existing park and playground sites, public open space and <br />storm water holding areas or ponds and debt retirement in connection with land previously <br />acquired For such public purposes. Expenses incurred by the City in acquiring said cash <br />dedication, may be deducted from said dedication before it is deposited in the Park and <br />Playground Fund. <br />See Section 203.06 of this Code. <br />City of Mounds View <br />