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Considerations for The Centerville City Council and The Parks and Recreation Committee Regarding Parks, Trails, and Lakes To: Centerville City Council Parks and Recreation From: Parks, Trails, and Lakes group, Design Team Volunteers Date: February 3, 1999 Design Team Volunteers interested in Parks, Trails, and Lakes have met several times. In the most recent meeting, the group met with the Parks and Recreation committee and city administrator, Jim March, to learn of their plans and to ask questions related to parks, trails, and lakes. The group wants to thank Parks and Recreation and Jim March for their time and outpouring of information. The Parks, Trails, and Lakes group has formulated some recommendations for your consideration. The group sees many opportunities and they want to be sure these opportunities do not get away. The group has done its best to think of the community as a whole, and put forward suggestions that are both desirable and doable. These items were developed just after the joint meeting with the Parks and Recreation committee, and they should fit well with the current plans of Parks and Recreation. Before getting into the more extensive lists, here are the time critical recommendations most applicable to the City Council and Parks and Recreation. SUMMARY OF OPPORTUNITIES THAT NEED IMMEDIATE ATTENTION (marked ** below): A.Application for Cooperative Trail grant for Anoka Park connection to Lamotte Park. Due in February (see below, #1 under Trails). B.Acquisition of Water Utility property near Lamotte Park to enhance the Park with lakshore and a possible fishing pier (see below, #1 under Lakes) C.Acquisition of downtown lake property to provide a "town square" along the lines of the Design Team drawing (see below, #5 under Trails, and #2 under Lakes). D.Park equipment grants (see below, #1 under Parks) E.Park grants. (see below, #2 under Parks) F.MnDOT help and/or funding with landscaping - this may not need immediate attention, but early application can't hurt (see below, #4 under Parks). C.Again, the Parks, Trails, and Lakes group offers the city their assistance in any way possible to help bring about the goals mentioned below. We may have people who might help draft applications, volunteer to help with planting, etc. Below are roughly prioritized separate lists for Trails, Lakes, and Parks. Those items marked with a ** are the items above that are described in more detail below, and these items are deemed most important to discuss with the City Council and Parks and Recreation now. Trails I.**Connect the Anoka Park trail to Lamotte Park. The current drawing of Lamotte Park does not show a trail connection, but in the meeting with Parks and Recreation, the obvious first priority is to connect the Anoka Park trail with the Lamotte Park parking lot. This would be a trail on the western side of Lamotte Park from the south end to the parking lot at the north end. From there, the trail might go east, in an eventual connection to the Centerville Interceptor easement and/or north possibly through or on the edge of the church property to the heart