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City of Mounds View Comprehensive Plan Trails In 1992,the City adopted a resolution establishing a comprehensive trailways system policy to help promote safe bicycling in the city and to provide a trailway system that connects recreational opportunities within the community and provides a link between Ramsey and Anoka counties and to neighboring cities' trail systems. An important regional trailway system that Mounds View has an opportunity to link to is the Rice Creek Chain of Lakes Regional Park Corridor.This corridor includes trailways through Centerville, Circle Pines,Shoreview,Arden Hills,Mounds View,New Brighton,Fridley,and finally connects to the Mississippi River Trail. The Rice Creek Trail is a joint effort between Anoka and Ramsey Counties. Mounds View lies in the middle of this corridor.Upon completion Mounds View would have access to the Centerville chain of lakes in one direction and the Mississippi River Trail in the other direction. The portion that is in Mounds View lies along Rice Creek and provides a link from the TCAAP (arsenal)property in Arden Hills to the Long Lake Regional Park in New Brighton. Ramsey County trailway connections include a route to downtown St. Paul through the City of Shoreview. The link to this trailway is on County Road I.Mounds View also has the opportunity to connect with trailways leading to downtown Minneapolis via Silver Lake Road. Mounds View connections to this trailway would include Long lake Road/County Road H or a Groveland/Knollwood/Pleasant View Dr. route. Existing or proposed connections to adjacent communities include County Road I and County Road J connections to Shoreview,Long Lake Road, Silver Lake Road,and Old Highway 8 connections to New Brighton, and County Road H, County Road H2 and County Road I connections to Fridley. Figure 17 on page 87 shows the existing and proposed trails in Mounds View. The proposed Mounds View trailway system consists of a combination of on-street or off-street arteries and connectors. County Roads H, H2, I, and J, Silver Lake Road, Long Lake Road, and Groveland Road(continuing with Knollwood Rd. south of County Highway 10)serve as arteries for connecting streets and links to other trailway systems.Connectors include Ardan Avenue,Hillview Road, Bronson Drive, Edgewood Drive,Woodale Drive, Quincy Street, Mounds View Drive, and Pleasant View Drive.Trailways are not provided on every street.The trailways system is intended to provide accessibility to all areas of the City,making special provisions to provide access to schools, parks, business areas and the City Hall/Community Center area. Trailway priorities established in 1992 include: 1. Stripe and mark one or both sides of City roads with sufficient width to provide on- street trails consistent with the trailways plan. 2. Pursue all applicable grants and funding sources for the development of trailways in the City of Mounds View. 3. Advocate for the development of trailways during all street reconstruction and improvements. 83