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w t PARK BOARD MINUTES December 5, 197-3 The meeting was called to order at 8:00 p.m. Board members present: Cook, Dahl, Gunderman, Smith, Weissman and Council Representative Eagon. Board members absent: Hagemeyer and Sherleok. Others present: Charles H. Corlett, Department Intern and Robert Wieklund, Director of Parks and Recreation. The minutes of the regular meeting of November 7, 1973 were approved as submitted. Dahl. requested that the proposal from the Minnesota Environmental Sciences Foundation, Incorporated be added to the agenda. Park Proposal - Farr Property The development on some 67 acres of property located on I-694 and Silver Lake Road was explained to the Park Board. The development by Darrel A.. Farr Company is to include a mix of apartment buildings and cluster homes, totaling some 500 units. The Village owns 32 acres of property adjacent to the development and the Farr Corporation has offered to trade a more suitable site for the Village1s property in order to provide park facilitie s. Gunderman :.and Smith both commented that-they were concerned about the drainage pond located on the property which Farr was going to trade to the Village. They commented that it would create a maintenance and esthetic problem resulting from siltation. Gunderman noted that this kind of development would create an increase of approximately 1,.500 in population and that 32 acres was insufficient for a park for this many people. He further stated that the development was really not giving us anything. Weissman indicated that he was opposed to trading the Village-owned parcel, as he felt it would be extremely valuable as commerical property at some future date. He further stated that the property which Farr was intending to trade to the Village was too low and swampy to be of any value whatever. Smith suggested that the pond might be moved further south to create a larger area available for park use. This would also create more buildable property.