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City of Arden Hills - Comprehensive Plan - DRAFT <br />Formatted: Bullets and Numbering <br />• _ Sampson Park — Add landscaping within the park to provide interest and - <br />Formatted: Bullets and Numbering <br />improve aesthetics. Replace the parking lot surface of the basketball court <br />Deleted <g>Arden Manor Park <br />Provide a new entrance drive, parking <br />with a bituminous Colored surface_ <br />lot and Will connection when Highway <br />96 is reconstructed. Add a looped trail <br />Valentine Park— Complete drainage study and drainage improvements for <br />amund the reed and to the future <br />TCAAP trails. Define edges of the <br />park with new trees and landscaping. <br />Add new shaded benches near park <br />features. Add a sign and map at the <br />park entrances to provide parks and <br />trail identiecation.p <br />I <br />the future of the park. Future Improvements are contingent upon the results <br />of the study: Consider reconfigure parking lot to detach park features from <br />the parking lot pavement. Replace the play structure. Add a new warming <br />house/picnic shelter. Move or improve the surface of the half basketball court. <br />APAraen Oaks Park -Aad a paved <br />9.4.2 Recreation <br />trail from north to south across the <br />park to connect the park features and <br />to meetADA accessibility <br />The City currently has an extensiveoy uth recreation program. While the <br />requirements. Add benches and trash <br />containers near the park features. <br />programs have been primarily focused on youth and adolescent activities, anI <br />Add trees and landscaping to provide <br />increased need for teen, adult, and senior activities was identified in the 2002 <br />I shade, spatial definition, and to <br />improve aestheti s. ¶ <br />PTOS Plan as well as the community meetings held for the 2008 Comprehensive <br />Plan update,To help inform the recreation program development process, the <br />#r Chades Perry Park - Move <br />entrance drive to line up with Thom <br />City may consider creating advisorggroups for seniors, teens, children, and other <br />Drive. Add new warming house in <br />interested groups., <br />close proximity to the skating rink <br />(this will eliminate the conflict with <br />skaters having to crass the entrance <br />9.4.3 Pathway Expansion and Upgrades <br />drive). Add a drinking fountain with <br />tug filler. Pave the existing skating <br />rink for inline skating and half court <br />A number of neighborhoods in Arden Hills have pathways; however, in order to <br />basketball). Add a new open ice <br />provide a connected and complete pathway system in Arden Hills, additional <br />skating area. Tum existing warming <br />house into a storage shed. Add a <br />arterial and neighborhood paths are needed. While paths are very popular for <br />paved trail connecting the parking lot <br />recreational purposes, there is also a growing demand for utilitarian pathways <br />he the play structure and a trail from <br />the future picnic shelter to the <br />that connect residential areas to destinations such as commercial areas, offices, <br />unpaved malls below hilt Add a kiosk <br />parks, and other popular places. Providing multiple destinations on a pathway <br />map and identification sign. Complete <br />tail from pavilion to Tony Schd_.. rv_i_ <br />system can increase use, promote physical activity, and reduce motorized travel. <br />Deleted: has <br />Deleted: A study should be <br />This Plan includes the folio wi recommendations for pathway expansions and <br />undertaken to determine the demand <br />for such program, the types of <br />program that are needed, potential <br />Upgrade$; <br />I funding sources, and the possil' .,. 67 <br />Deleted: advisory <br />Deleted; should be formed or <br />consulted. <br />Deleted: a 2002 PTOS Plan and the <br />i community have called for paths to be <br />constructed or for unofficial paths to <br />Lbe upgraded at the following locations <br />!Formatted: Font:(Default) Anal, 10 <br />pt <br />Formatted: Font: (Default) Arial, 10 <br />DRAFT 54 <br />5/1/2008 <br />