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Parks, Trails & Recreation Committee Meeting Minutes April 19, 2011 Page 2 Valentine Park from Glenview to the park and then to E2. She indicated the committee should indicate whether or not to include connecting trails. Ms. Olson suggested the committee could add this to the preliminary plans and then see where the budget comes in. Discussion ensued on the traffic on Old Snelling and possibly adding a stop sign or speed monitor. The committee members felt a drinking fountain should be added and that a high priority would be to have a trail connection to E2. Ms. Olson asked the committee what they felt about Item #6, the tree house concept and consensus was to keep this as a low priority. She stated at this point Council is looking for recommendations from the committee and the residents on what amenities and activities should be in the park and she would like to bring these recommendations to a May Council meeting. MOTION: Committee Member Peck moved seconded by Committee Member Petersen that the committee recommend to Council inclusion of all the elements on the draft concept plan and to include a drinking fountain and perimeter trails connecting north/south to County Road E2 and east /west to Glenview. The motion carried unanimously (8 -0). Al. Pulte Homes Development Park Dedication Requirement Discussion — Meagan Beekman, City Planner Ms. Beekman provided background regarding the Pulte Development and included a site plat (north and south half) in the packet. She informed the Pulte Group does have a purchase agreement contingent on City approval for a subdivision of the property located at 4500 Snelling Avenue North. Planner Beekman stated that the subdivision ordinance addresses a park dedication requirement which is triggered whenever there is a subdivision of land in the City. She indicated it is typical to bring park dedication options to a PTRC meeting to get recommendations to bring to Council on how best to utilize the requirement. She stated for the park dedication requirement the City can require up to 6 percent of the total land area for parks and trails, or 6 percent of the assessed value in cash which comes to approximately $133,000 or some combination of the two. If the City decided to take the cash dedication that money would need to be used for building new parks and recreation facilities and could not be used for maintaining existing facilities and the facilities would need to benefit the new property owners. Planner Beekman indicated she believes that because Arden Hills is fully developed and there is a park very nearby there would be some flexibility within state statute that would allow the City to use park dedication on building other amenities throughout the City provided that a comp plan and /or a priorities list had been formalized. Therefore, that money could be used to implement areas the City has already identified as priorities or facilities that they would like to build. Planner Beekman informed she has laid out a couple of options within the discussion section of the memo that talks about what some possibilities are. She pointed out the sketch done by the traffic engineer with suggestions on where some facilities might be useful for these residents. Suggestions were either for a north/south connection from Hwy 96 or an east /west connection for the trail that runs behind the townhomes. Planner Beekman indicated the developer did identify a location which is shown on page 8 which essentially would be like a boardwalk connection where the concept would be to connect Keithson Drive with the east /west trail. The other potential trail would be along Snelling