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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - JUNE 28, 1999 A .I' 1.1~". .0" '.: ,';"'t-."" also pointed out that the Regional Blueprint calls for containing growth and moving towards mass transit, not enlarging freeways, ;~' ,/i"'} ~"' ...c!':'- 'I ro "'~'I. UNFINISHED AND NEW BUSINESS B. Arden Manor Park Project .Mr. Fritsinger explained that the discussion to improve the Arden Manor Park has been ongoing for several months. The Parks and Recreation Committee has spent a good portion of the last six to eight months looking at the whole program for Arden Manor, including two items which were a part of this year's Capital Improvement Program, the playstructure and the basketball court. The Parks and Recreation Committee met with residents of Arden Manor Mobile Home Park on March 16, 1999, to discuss the potential redevelopment of the park. Prior to this meeting, staff had sent surveys to each resident of the Mobile Home Park, soliciting input into the possible features of the redeveloped park. .Mr. Fritsinger presented drawings depicting the current layout ofthe park. He indicated that the Parks and Recreation Committee Commission looked into the feasibility of an overall redevelopment. The Committee members discussed adding trails around the play area, moving the playstructure, and generally improving the overall site. This concept had a number of concerns, particularly with the trail area. There is an ongoing drainage problem within the park and constructing a trail around the perimeter of the park would present additional drainage e problems. For these reasons, the Committee moved away from this concept and focused on the items, which are components of the Capital Improvement Program for this year. As the Committee looked into the options for the younger children and spoke with the residents, the real need, which came up, was to provide an enhanced playstructure and a basketball court for the older children, A third item, which came up, was the picnic shelter. The picnic shelter is currently located to the far north, adjacent to the pond. With the redesign, it was felt that moving the picnic shelter in greater proximity to the other activities taking place would enhance its usability by the residents. The one constant related to this redevelopment which has been a subject of discussion over the last six years has been the issue of drainage, The storm water improvement being suggested is an enhanced drainage swale that would carry the water to the existing outlet pipe. Last year, the park owner had been granted City approval to construct a garage in the parking lot. One problem that did not come up when this approval had been granted was the fact that it limited the City's ability to enter the park with maintenance equipment, Additionally, the City could not maintain a skating rink in the park this past winter, for the first time, because it could not access the site to flood the rink, The redevelopment of the park would also include an improved access, not only to the general area of the improvements being proposed, but also allowing access to the rest of the park to perform general maintenance. .