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� t MINUTES OF REGULAR PARKS AND RECREATION COMMITTEE MEETING Village of Arden Hills • April 22, 1986 Village Hall Call to Order The meeting was called to order at 7:33 p.m. by Chairman Sand. Roll Call Present David Sand, Adele Anderson, Gerald Dreyling, Keith Enrooth, Mary Gillies, Don Messerly, Alan Montgomery, Tom Mulcahy, Jim Otto, Mark Peterson Absent: Jim Mishek, Kathleen Rauenhorst Also Present: Councilman Tom Sather, Mayor Robert Woodburn Planner Orlyn Miller Parks Director J. T. Buckley Craig Gallop. Musco lighting; Inc. Don Grant, Arden Hills Sportmens' Club Approval of Minutes The minutes of March 25 were approved as submitted. Mounds View Basketball Association - Winter Program The representative who was to discuss the winter program with the committee was not present; report delayed until May meeting. --_ Plans for Proposed $orth Snelling Area Park II • In late 1985, a park dedication agreement -iWss reached with North Heights Lutheran Church calling for dedication( 4.57 res of land, at the southern tip of their land, for development of a neig boyhood park in that area. While the final delineation of the land to be dedicated has not been worked out, the area proposed to be dedicated includes a ponding area, with sloping sides, resulting in approximately 2-1/2 acres of land suitable for park development. Miller said he has not been able to determine exactly how much water the pond is intended to hold. . .he's planning to discuss this with the Church's engineer and with the Rice Creek Watershed District. He discussed three options, (1) if it will normally be comparatively dry, some development could take place in this area; (2) it would be attractive as a "marshy" area; (3) if it will be holding water at all times, he feels it should be at a depth of at least 18" to 2' in order to be attractive in appearance. NHLC is presently doing grading on their site, and has been grading and filling in the area intended for the park also. Park committee members declared this extremely unfortunate; topography has been changed already so that original topography can't be determined. Miller explained that the grading and filling has been done partially to create the required slopes to the ponding area (required by RCWD); added that the quality of the fill dumped on the park was good and not detrimental to development; however, he agreed that it was unfortunate that the topography was disturbed before he had had a chance to prepare grading plans for the park. If, when grading plans are developed for the park, NHLC has done anything not called for in the plans, they can be required to change it. • Miller then presented three proposed plans for development, all of which