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2.4 Until August of2003, the parcel was designated as Light Industrial, when the City Park and Recreation Commission and the Planning Commission recOllli11ended to the City Council that a new land use zoning district be created - a Park and Open Space District. This district was intended to place a land use designation on each public "park" and each "open space" owned by the city and county. City parks are identified in the system plan of the Park and Recreation section of the Comprehensive Plan, last updated in 2003. 2.5 While designated in 2003 for Park and/or Open Space Use, the 2 acre Hagen parcel is I!5't included in either the Park SYE1~lJl12laJ1 or inthe Langton Lake Master Plan. There is no record of official City Council action to;;:lOv~the ownership or management of this stonn pond area into the Langton Lake Park nor does the DSU Langton Lake Park Master Plan of 1988 illustrate this parcel as pari of the Parle A Langton Park pathway and boardwalk skirts the west side of the storm pond parcel. It is, however, shown on the Twin Lakes 2001 Proposed Storn1 Sewer Map as a "Stonn Pond" and as a "Storm Pond LL-P3" on the City of Roseville Natural Resource Inventory of February, 2002. The pond has 42 inch and 24 inch pipe inlets into the site from surrounding drainage areas and catch basins. The outlet from the pond to Langton Lake is a 12 inch pipe and weir at the north end of the pond, and an overflow riprap spillway. 2.6 Since no indication of "Park" designation for this stonn pond parcel is shown in the Langton Lake Park Master Plan of 1988, today it remains a city owned "stonn pond" and "open space", much as others in the community have done for years (such as some of the Ramsey County Open spaces, the City's Mildred at C-2 pond, the City's Walsh Lake, the City's Skillman and Alameda Ponds, and the pond at Victoria and B.) 2.7 In April of 2005, the City staff prepared the boundary for proposed TIF District 17. It included the same stOlID pond parcel as in TIP District 11. In both cases, it has been important to illustrate the location of Twin Lakes Parkway through the storm pond parcel, because the cost of constructing this public infrastructure (the Parkway) will be suppOlied by the use of the District 11 and/or District 17 TIP funding. The pond shape and size may change because of the construction of the road itself, but it will be regraded to function as the sub-watershed storm pond. There is no proposed development by the Master Developer (Rottlund) planned for the storn1 pond parcel. 3.0 STAFF CONCLUSION: 3.1 The parcel was bought by the City in 1994 for the specific purpose of holding storm water and slowing the flow of sedimentation into the Lake. It is a necessary pari of the storm water management system and must remain as such. The parcel is not part of the 1988 Langton Lake Park Master Plan. It is open space. In 2003 the zoning on the parcel was changed from Industrial (I-I) to Park and Opens Space (POS). 3.2 In summary, the parcel was bought to function as pari of the public infrastructure pond and road right-of-way necessary to serve Twin Lakes Redevelopment. Funds from TIP District 17 may be used to help construct these improvements, therefore the parcel is within the City's Development District. No private development is intended for this site. \\metro-inet.us\Roseville\CommDev\Department\City COllncil-Manager\Twinlakes Storm Pond MClllO(051 005).doc 2