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.---.... ... ...."1"., ....UUUIUdll l .e~~ Volume 19, Number 40: Phone: 633-2777 Editorial. 83300753 Want Aclft;'. 6 FAX . 7"-8800 Clreu/e:11on Wed., Augull 3, 1994 Perry Park may undergo major renovation by Lttutel Rudel H a grant proposal Is suca:ssCuI, AnIon Hills' Charles Peny Park will undergo a nuyor renoVllllon in Ihe fall of 1995. The Arden Hills City Council approved !he Outdoor Recreation Grant prognun application. administered by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resoun:es, at ils July 25 meeting. The city has requested $200.000, and that amount conld be matched by lbe c1ly park fund, which is the money coUected from all developers via park dedication fees. According 10 Park and Recreation Director Olldy Sevensoo. there Is enoogh money In that fund III cove, half of Ihe redevelqmlCllt COSlS, but the city will COIIIinue 10 sean:b fer other financial assislllllce so that funds will . . remain for other projects. The redevelopment proJec~ the most exlenslve ever proposed in Anlen HIlls. will change the overall layoul of the park to improve safety. efficia1cy and accessibility. "It's bow things should have been done to begin with," Sevenson said of the proposed improvemenls 10 Ihe pad<, which was originally developed In 1971, ''\\Io're 001 talking about any1blng grlIIIdiose.... PERRY PARK, WCATED on New Brighlnn Road Just south of County Road ire most heavily-scbeduled park in Hills. Its programs range fium IiUle e baseball In adult soCtballleagues, , C ddren's summer programs to skating dnk/warming house activities, and ",,"pony and resident picnic~ Problems with the current design Include 8 driveway running down the middle of the pari<. There are two soCtbaII f..1ds on either side of Ihe driveway. and Ihe two soulh r..1ds are 4 fed higher than the nOrth fJelds, wilb tbe 'DdlfJeld area., '1Mfr1lipjl~pIlll'gTouad k~'" back of the upper fields. hidden behind a bunker, and cannot be seen from the driveway. The redeveloproent plan inc1txies: . Removal of the exIsting driveway and (lBridJ.Jg Iol. A newparldng .... WlllIId be consll1lCled by the wanning house, near tbe entrance to tbe park. This would' increase the number of parking spots as well as eliminate the safety bazard associated witb the prescot parking sibWion. . . Regrading the enlire site 10 make it level. Clmendy, the upper hall fields do 001 meet aocessIbility standards because of Ihe 4-fOOlIncIlne from the parIdng lot. . ReconJ1guring Ihe four soflball f..1ds so Ihe outfields don't overlap, This would end Ihe problem of DlIl1le1ders running into eacb other. . Increasing the use of the park by i the two south fields, allowing fo, r game each nlgbt. The growing Photographs documenting their Bummer fun 8re framed with pop.lckle sticks .. part of an Arden Hill. Perk and of school,age children In Arden Recrea1ion playground acltfvlty at Charles Perry Park last week. Anne Magnuson, 5, looks for 8 fresh marker .s has Inaeased demand for basehall and friend Jus'lne.Hedlund, ege 6, pulls one from a coHee tin. (Bulletin photo by Brad Stauffer) . softball facilities, and thIs project will .te the pressure fer addilional f..lds. to an area near lhe entrance wbere it . Inslalling catch basins and stonn each year as soil gets washed over a the Arsenal property is declared would be visible from tbe warming sewers to better channel and drain the drop-off. This creates another safely surplus by the Army, there is DO land shelter. parking lot. driveway and all water, and repairing erosion areas. hazard as there Is less space on Ihe third available in the city on which to build soCthaIl fields. The out-of-date equipment Cwrently, drainage is a problem with the base line for players 10 ""ch foul halls. another pari<. would also he replaced with new, ADA- lower f..1ds, and the east ead of the pari< The state will announce the grant . Relocatin. the playground structure accessible equipmenL Is eroding. The pari< loses 1,2 f""tofland awards In Decanher.