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METROPOLITAN COUNCIL Suite 300 Metro Square Building, Saint Paul, Minnesota 551.01 ~.. MEMORANDUM T0: FROM: ~:. ,. Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission Parks and Open Space Staff, Jack Mauritz SUBJECT: Long-Rush Lake Regional Park Master Plan and Acquisition and Development Grant Referral #9207-1; Council Dist. 4 INTRODUCTION June 1, 1982 Ramsey County has requested that the Metropolitan Council approve an amended Regional Park development master plan entitled "Long Lake Regional Park Master Plan". The amended elan has been approved by the City of New Brighton and by Ramsey County in April and May of 1982. A related request from New Brighton via Ramsey County calls for the buy-out of the City's interest in the Long Lake segment of the regional park. The City's detailed costs are for $1,237,622. The Recreation Open Space Capital Improvement Program for the 1981-82 biennium shows $750,000 for acquisition and $660,000 for the development of the. regional park. A sequence of actions is summarized from Sec. II, pp. ?_-3, of the master plan. In 1967, New Brighton approved a park referendum. Using funds from those bonds, and funds from another 1.969 bond issue, the City purchased park land on the east shore of Long Lake. In 1973, Ramsey County began acquisition of property east of the Long Lake site, across the Minnepolis transfer railroad right of wa.y. The Rush Lake land was included in the Council's action list in 1974 and, at that time, incorporated part of the Rice Creek trail in Ramsey County. Beginning in 1974, the County proposed a joint regional park concept. By 1977, a joint planning agreement between New Brighton and Ramsey County was approved and the County wrote a development concept which received approval in the same year. In 1981, New Brighton requested that the Metropolitan Council consider the city as an implementing agency in the recreation open space system so the planned development could proceed. In its presentation, the City stressed its readiness to develop and operate the Regional Park and it perception that the County was not ready to proceed. Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission and Metropolitan Council recommended that the City and the County develop a joint agreement for the Qark's operation which identified each agency's contribution but which left the County as the responsible implementing agency, avoiding the proliferation of implementing agencies. The agencies agreed. This master plan is a revised and expanded version of the 1.977 concept plan and has been approved by both parties, as was a joint powers agreement for the regional park operation. AUTHORITY TO REVIEW Minnesota Statute Section 473.313, Subdivision 2, authorizes the Metropolitan -~~ Council to review, with the advice of the Metropolitan Parks and Open Space Commission, master plans for regional recreation open space. Plans are to be reviewed for their consistency with the Development Guide-Policy Plan for Recreation Ooen Space.