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Shoreview and Arden Hills. When he was asked if there were another place in New Brighton that would be able to have a lacrosse field, he answered that Driftwood would probably be the only viable spot. Hidden Oaks would be too small. To have a full size lacrosse field, it needs to be 120 yards in length by 60 yards in width, add sidelines and that is another 5 yards. Vermont would not have enough space and because of the traffic, you would have to increase the size of the fences. Most of the parks just don't have the open space you need to have a full size field. At Driftwood you could have soccer and lacrosse, but it would tax the field and there may be more maintenance issues. It is the biggest open space we have now, so that would probably be easiest. Tom Trevorrow, 1694 23rd Ave NW The area east of Old Hwy 8 along the road is a grassy area that looks pretty decent there. Could that area be used as a temporary soccer field for practice? Would like to make the park very welcoming. Benches help to make it welcoming. Keith J. Flakne, 3040 13th Terr. NW. He is part of the Irondale Baseball league. New Brighton needs baseball diamonds badly. They have 180 kids 3-8th grade. New Brighton has zero fields that they can play on. They play games in Mounds View, and sometimes use the school district fields for practice which are terrible. A field in the new park or anywhere in New Brighton is needed. We are scrambling for fields this spring. If we could get a field for kids, it would be used a lot. The Groveland fields in Mounds View are the size we need. The baseline starts at 60 feet and then in the U15 they start using 75 foot baselines. The pitchers rubber is set at 60 feet. Judi Mikolai (representing Rice Creek Boat Club), 2080 Long Lake Road. She was not requesting any land use in North Park, but had a request for use of some land close to the railroad tracks near the lake. Rice Creek Boat Club is a canoe and kayak racing club. Home base is Long Lake. They are on Long Lake quite regularly during the summer. The kids are learning to do marathons or sprints in canoes and kayaks. Tandem kayaks and canoes and solo kayaks and canoes are used. The goal is to introduce kids to canoe paddling, promote physical fitness and offer an alternative teen sport to sports like baseball and lacrosse. The club is in its 7th year. The club is growing steadily. The club primarily runs from May to August. A fair amount of equipment (the boats) is needed. We are asking to place a 40 foot storage container on the South Park space to store the boats. We are limiting the number of kids that can participate because we have to trailer our boats to the lake each time we want to use them. We normally work with 13-18 year olds. We've expanded and run classes through New Brighton Parks and Recreation and offer classes to kids in the 10-13 year old age group. Separate camps are held for each canoeing and kayaking. Two different kinds of boats are used so they have to be trailered back and forth to accommodate the two different camps. The 40 foot container is very safe. They cannot be tipped over or damaged too much. She stated that another option would be to put the container down by the boat launch area. The Club made a request for that last summer with Ramsey County but the request was denied. Liability issues were considered. The Rice Creek Boat Club does have insurance. The Club had talked about chaining the boats to trees but felt they were susceptible to possible 2