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Page 1 of 2 Jim March To: Wayne LeBlanc; Theresa Brenner; Tom Peterson; Tim Rehbine; Ray Devine; Michelle Moser; Lori Dom; John McLean; Jim Hoeft; Hanna Tilsen; Brian Hanson; Patricia Scott; Elizabeth Scheller, Doug Porter; Dave Kilian; Mary Capra; Aimee Fairbrother; City Council Subject: Week in Review Week in Review September 29, 2000 Building Permits this Period = 3 Building Permits YTD = 139 New Homes Year to Date = 38 * Eagle Trucking has vacated the office area of the new public works building. The public works department will start moving into the offices on Monday. We are continuing to clean up the junk around the old public works site. Plans are being made to ask City permission to relocate the Lion's storage shed to the new public works site to try to further the downtown clean up efforts. * I spoke to the attorney representing Cy Sheehy this morning. Mr. Sheehy is willing to donate 15 acres in the industrial park to the City. I indicated to Mr. Sheehy's attorney that the City Council has indicated a willingness to accept the donation. I also mentioned that the City would be interested in looking at obtaining a trail easement across the remaining five acres that Mr. Sheehy would like to keep around his existing building. This twenty acre parcel is located just south of the developed industrial area (Goetz, Northern Forest Products etc.) between 20th and 21st Avenue. If we obtained this fifteen acres of land, we would have the future trail linkage area secured to traverse the land between 20th and 21st Avenue. This would be consistent with our long term trail plan to connect to the City of Hugo. This property is mostly wetland with upland around the perimeter. The property has much potential for recreational uses. This could also be a site for a future watertower. There has been an interest expressed by a local business owner to purchase a portion of this property from the City, if we accept the proposed donation. There also exists the possibility of banking wetland credits on this site as a potential revenue stream. This exciting development will be discussed at the next Council and October committee meetings. • There was a great visioning meeting held on Monday of this week at City Hall. The entire park and recreation committee was in attendance along with representatives from Anoka County, Washington County, Lino Lakes, Hugo, St. Paul Water Utility and the Rice Creek Snowmobile Association. Wayne LeBlanc has drafted a summary of the meeting and is working to revise the comprehensive trail vision. The proposed Sheehy property donation 9/29/00