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1.24.08 PUBLIC MEETING ADDENDUM: <br /> <br />Public Meeting to discuss the long term plan for the parkland area and existing <br />trailway located north of Oakwood Park and east/northeast of Greenfield Park. <br /> <br />Resident #1: Discussed Duluth disc golf course newspaper article dated Oct. 23, <br />2007. Concerned with using public monies to put in a disc golf course. If we choose <br />to do this we should following the Duluth ideas and raise the money from private <br />donations rather than public monies. We already have a disc golf course. Don’t <br />need another. <br /> <br />Resident #2: Keep, improve, and maintain current walking path including sturdy <br />bridges over existing areas. Perhaps paved and unpaved. <br />Parking could be at Greenfield Park. Enlist scouts and other groups to help with <br />maintenance. Encourage schools to use the trail. Refrain from further development <br />or intrusion. See attached letter. <br /> <br />Resident #3: Maintain what is existing. No need to pave as concerned with cars <br />driving back there. Encourage it to be a place for people of all ages for biking, <br />walking, and enjoy nature. <br /> <br />Resident #4: No to disc golf. Clean up the park, leave it natural without paving. <br />Maintain trail and fix bridges. <br /> <br />Resident #5: Keep it as is, but may need to make it handicap accessible. <br /> <br />Resident #6: Concerned with police patrolling the area for vandals, etc. <br /> <br />Resident #7: If we restored the trail to what it was, we could get a more positive use. <br /> <br />Roxanne Cunningham, science teacher at Pinewood Elementary, spoke about ideas <br />to get community involvement and investment. She shared a powerpoint <br />presentation: Consider the following: <br /> 1) what is the trail to be? <br /> 2) who will use the trail? age-range, level of use? <br /> 3) connecting to other trails? <br /> 4) hiring a professional trail builder <br /> 5) Put the trial in first, mark it with nature facts, advertise it, provide <br /> benches <br /> 6) trail grading, meandering, water run-off <br /> 7) back yard privacy <br /> <br />Rick Wriskey, City Forester spoke about trees along the trailway. Cotton woods, <br />willows, cherry, box elder, elms, pin cherry. It provides a screen for residents for <br />US Highway 10, etc. Discussed opportunity of working with Pinewood school again <br />to do plantings as they have done in the past. Encouraged getting the schools <br />involved by getting younger children invested in the park to decrease vandalism. <br /> <br />What are the next steps: <br /> 1) define what we want to do with the parkland <br /> 2) develop a plan to get there <br />