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On September 25,2000, people representing the City of Centerville, the City of Hugo, the City ofLino Lakes, Anoka County, Anoka County Parks, the St. Paul Water Utility, and Washington County met to discuss a trail plan to connect the Chain of Lakes Park and it's trails with Centerville trails and with Hugo trails. Agreement was reached on a target location for a pedestrian bridge to connect everything. See attachment E (Letters of Support). 12 Impact on Adjoinine Landowners in the Vicinity of the Project · Demonstrate the compatibility of the proposed project with existing adjoining land uses. · Identify adverse impacts that might be realized as a result of completing the project. · How does the project design attempt to mitigate adverse impacts? · How might the project improve conditions for adjacent landowners? · Identify mitigation steps that will be taken to successfully overcome possible/probable objections to this project. About half of the proposed trail will be on an easement. This easement is on property that is essentially undeveloped. Putting the trail on this easement reduces the impact to existing homes and minimizes impact to developers. In addition, the easement has a side effect of producing an informal trail already (See Fig 4). The other half of the trail is on undeveloped land and negotiation for this land should be straightforward. When this land is developed, the developers would be expected to provide a trail in accordance with the overall plan. One person has a dog kennel on the easement. There may be some people just north of the easement who might not prefer a trail there. Experience with the Chain of Lakes trail and residents near it showed that, at first, many were opposed to the trail. However, with the trail in, most have come to embrace the trail and, in fact, become some of the primary users. Some mitigation measures would be to plant screens to block views and reduce sound. 24