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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, November 14, 2011 Page 7 would remain parks unless the City could replace them in-kind. Mr. Malinen ad- vised that this letter of request for a right-of-way states that the City intends to re- place those areas with parkland somewhere else in order to allow the City to move forward under federal guidelines. Mr. Malinen advised that the City had looked at acquisition candidates in the Twin Lakes area, one near the ball fields that had been forfeited, and another off County Road C-2. As a volunteer having done water testing on Langton Lake over a number of years, Councilmember McGehee noted the importance of these storm water ponds in the filtering process for the south basin of Langton Lake, with water quality continuing to improve as a result, and noted the topography of that area that rapid- ly slopes down to the lake. Councilmember McGehee questioned if it was possi- ble to move Twin Lakes Parkway slightly around the filtration ponds so it wouldn't jeopardize the water quality improvement achieved to-date. As far as additional parkland, Councilmember McGehee stated that she was not opposed to the parcel down below, but the water quality in the south and middle needed to be preserve, since the north basin had already been declared dead as there was insuf- ficient oxygen to support aquatic life. Mayor Roe indicated that he didn't think it was staff's intention to change the ponds. City Engineer Debra Bloom advised that the basin in question, known as the Ar- thur Street Pond, was a two (2) cell pond with a narrow channel; and that the channel had originally been designed to have a road on it: Twin Lakes Parkway. Ms. Bloom advised that one aspect of the road design was to turn the area into another storm pond; and assured Councilmembers and the public that when road projects were designed and subsequently installed they had to meet all water qual- ity regulations, whether through private or public development. Ms. Bloom ad- vised that it was not staffs intent to fill it in, but to just have the road go where it was originally designed as Arthur Road. At the request of Councilmember Pust, Ms. Bloom confirmed that there would be a culvert underneath the road to drain the pond. At the request of Councilmember Pust, Public Works Director Dwayne Schwartz advised that it was yet to be determined where money would come from for pur- chase of other land to make up for these two (2) parcels; however, he noted that there were some opportunities identified in the Parks and Recreation Master Plan, including the current tax-forfeited parcel that had previously been identified for acquisition for parkland. Mr. Schwartz noted that a medium Oak Forest had also been identified to preserve land in that area; with some potential opportunities for acquisition through redevelopment contracts with developers in that area; and a potential for remnant parcels that could be designed as parkland in the future. Mr. Schwartz noted that there were also potential grant funds available for parkland