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Agenda Item: <br /> <br />CITY OF HUGO <br /> <br />Memorandum <br /> <br /> <br />TO: Bryan Bear, City Administrator <br /> <br />FROM: Shayla Denaway, Parks Planner <br /> <br />SUBJECT: Goodview Avenue Trail Feasibility Study <br /> <br />DATE: December 3, 2020 for the City Council Meeting of December 7, 2020 <br /> <br /> <br />1. INTRODUCTION: <br /> <br />The Parks, Recreation and Open Space Commission recommends approval of the Goodview <br />Avenue Trail Feasibility Study, but is not recommending construction at this time. <br /> <br />2. BACKGROUND: <br /> <br />The City of Hugo applied for funding through Living Healthy Washington County’s Active <br />Living Partnership Program in November 2019. The funding is made available through the <br />Statewide Health Improvement Program. The Parks Commission included studying the <br />feasibility of a trail on Goodview Avenue in their 2020 goals. A contract with Washington <br />County was executed in February 2020, awarding the City of Hugo $10,000 for the project. A <br />the Parks Commission meeting of April 15, 2020 and May 5, 2020 a proposal from WSB to <br />conduct the study was approved. <br /> <br />3. TRAIL FEASIBILITY STUDY: <br /> <br />The scope of the Trail Study is along Goodview Avenue between 145h Street and Egg Lake <br />Road, a trail corridor that is included in the City’s trail plan. This corridor is frequently <br />discussed by Parks Commission and the importance was identified during the 2040 <br />Comprehensive Plan updates. <br /> <br />Through this corridor, Goodview Avenue has wetlands along both sides which were delineated. <br />That informed the drafting of conceptual trail layouts. <br /> <br />At their meeting of August 19, 2020, the Parks Commission reviewed concepts for the trail <br />corridor. Construction of a trail between 145th Street and Geneva Avenue were explored but not <br />carried forward due to the wetland impacts and high construction costs. Instead, an on-street