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i <br />MFM(1R AN fll IM <br />To: <br />From:.. <br />Date: <br />Subject: <br />Bernard L. Edmonds., Director of Parks and Open Space <br />Ken Simons, Landscape Architect <br />July 26, 1979 <br /> <br />Long Lake-Rush Lake Regional Park - Background Information <br />I have prepared the following "background" statement at the request of the <br />Executive Director's Office. This information .should provide the Board <br />of Commissioners and Executive Director's Office with pertinent documenta- <br />tion that will be helpful in understanding the course of events and actions <br />that have led up to the-staff preparation of a Development Concept, <br />Maintenance and Operation Cost Schedule and related Joint Powers Agreement <br />for the Long Lake-Rush Lake Regional Park Site. <br />The 208 Long Lake-Rush Lake Regional Park Site consolidates the,l00 acre <br />-Rush Lake Open Space-Site owned by Ramsey County and the 108 acre Long Lake <br />.Park Site owned by New Brighton. The adjacent sites have been designated <br />~tiy the Metropol i tan Council 's Development Guide Chapter on -0p'en Space as <br />a Regional Park Site. (Definition - an area of diverse natural resources <br />offering a range of outdoor recreation opportunities for the residents of <br />the Metropolitan Area,). Both sites presently are undeveloped. <br />On July 14, 1975 the Board of Ramsey County Commissioners approved the Master <br />Plan for implementation of the Ramsey County Regional Recreation Open Space <br />System conditioned on Metropolitan Council funding. (Resolution No. 75-554).' <br />The tong Lake-Rush Lake Open Space site was one of eight such sites included <br />in the County's-Master R1 an. <br />The Master Plan was prepared in compliance with the Metropolitan Parks Act <br />(Chapter 563, 1974 Laws of Minnesota) which requires Bounties and special <br />park districts in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area to prepare and submit <br />:proposed plans and budgets for the acquis.itian and development of resprective <br />regional recreation open space sites designated as such in the Metropolitan <br />Council's Policy Plan. <br />On August 5, 1974, a year prior to the preparation of the Master Plan,: the <br />Ramsey County _Park _Commi ss ion ( i . e. ~o~nty Board )_ approved the pr-e1 imi nary <br />development :plan for the Long Lake.-Rush Lake site and authorized submission <br />- of a joint application (Ramsey County/New Brighton) to the Metropolitan <br />