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School Lands (Useable Area). <br />;..~~ <br />1. Bel-Air Elementary 6 ac. <br />~. Highview Middle School 12 ac. <br />`3. Irondale Senior High 3Q ac. <br />~• Community Resource Center 4 ac. <br />5. Pike Lake Elementary 5 ac. <br />~. St. John's Parochial ~ ac. <br />7. Sunnyside Elementary 4 ac. <br />63 ac. <br />Qther Recreation Lands: <br />Acquired: <br />Rush Lake (Ramsey County- 180 ac. <br />Rush LakejRiCe Creek <br />180 ac. <br />Total all recreational lands 525.$2 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 neighborhood park. <br />Facilities in certain of the existing park areas are only <br />partially developed and thus, serve only a particular age or <br />.recreational interest group within the total population. Most <br />development during the last four years has emphasized facilities <br />€or school-age boys engaged in active, organized sports, as a result, <br />these needs are provided for whereas the remaining population groups <br />are not totally served, <br />Ramsey County and New Brighton are jointly developing and opera,tin <br />a regional park in the Rush Lake/Long Lake/Rice Creek area. In <br />addition to its regional function, this park will also play an im- <br />portant role in the .City's park system by providing various special <br />use facilities such as a swimming beach, group camping area, and <br />nature study center, in addition to the large, pleasant open space <br />area. <br />Many of our sites originally became available for park use because <br />they were unsuitable for development;-today they are to fulfill a dual <br />purpose of providing recreation open space while preserving or managin <br />the use of certain natural-resources. These resources, such as lakes, <br />ponds, streams and drainageways, wetlands, floodplains, erodible <br />slopes, forests and soils which have severe limitation far develop- <br />ment, 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 pax'ts; 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 main- <br />tenance plans are made, <br />