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School Lands (Usable Area) <br />1. Bel Air Elementary 6 ac. <br />• 2. <br />3 Highview Middle School <br />Sr <br />nd <br />le S <br />i <br />Hi <br />h 12 ac. <br />. o <br />a <br />en <br />or <br />g 30 ac. <br />4. Community Resource Center 4 ac. <br />5. Pike Lake Elementary 5 ac. <br />6. 5t. John's Parochial 2 ac. <br />7. Sunnyside Elementary 4 ac. <br /> 63 ac. <br />Other Recreation Lands; <br />Acquired: <br />Rush Lake (Ramsey County <br />Rush Lake/Rice Creek) <br />180 ac. <br />180 ac. <br />Total all recreational lands 531.5 ac. <br />The northwest corner of the City bounded by Stinson Boulevard, <br />County Road H, Silver Lake and Rice Creek Road, and divided by <br />Rice Creek and railroad tracks, is the only remaining neighborhood <br />not ,served by a park. <br />However, there are two parks, Sunny Square and Creekview that <br />are separated from the neighborhood by Silver Lake Road. There is <br />• no available park land in the neighborhood. The most obvious. remedy <br />is to provide either a cross walk at Gregory and Silver Lake Road <br />or a signalized crossing at Co. Rd. H and Silver Lake Road. <br />As the north Innsbruck area west of Silver Lake Road and Palmer <br />Drive continues to develop, the City should investigate the possibility <br />of converting its "gravel pit" into a minimally developed neighborhood <br />parka <br />Facilities,in certain existing park areas, are only partially de- <br />veloped and thus, serve only a particular age or recreational interest <br />group within the total population. Most development during the last <br />four years has emphasized facilities for school-age boys engaged in <br />active, organized sports; as a result, these needs are provided for <br />whereas the remaining population groups are not totally served. <br />Many of our sites originally became available far park use because <br />they were unsuitable for development; today they are to fulfill a <br />dual purpose of providing recreation open space while preserving or <br />managing the use of certain natural resources. These resources, such <br />as lakes, ponds, streams and drainageways, wetlands, floodplains, <br />erodible slopes, forests and soils which have severe limitation for <br />development, need protection and wise management to allow the natural <br />ecological systems (especially the hydrological cycle) to function <br />normally. The lakes, streams, ditches, floodplains and wetlands <br />are integral parts; the others are related in that they are affected <br />by or affect the hydrological cycle . This natural function must be <br />considered as a basis on which development, landscaping and mainten- <br />ance plans are made. <br />E <br />a-/d (o <br />