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PARK Bfl~IRD MEETING JUNE 6, 1973 NIeeting was called to order at 8:05 p.m. Board members present° Cook, Dahl, Gunderman, Hagemeyer, Sherlock, Smith, ~rdeissman and Council Representative Eagon. Board members absents None. Others present° Les Foretell, Gene Partyka, Planning Commission; Mrs. Richard Neuman and Robert M. T>>Iicklund, Director of Parks and Recreation. Agenda additions° Change of Meeting Date, Community Facilities and Ice arenas. The minutes of the regular meeting of April ~, -!973 were approved as submitted. Community Facilities Les Foretell and Gene Partyka, representing the New Brighton Planning Commission, appeared to discuss the community facility component of the Comprehensive Plan. As Parks and Recreation is a subcommittee of this component, they were soliciting input from the Park Board. Foretell stated that the Park and Recreation section vJOUld include three areas general goal; an inventory of existing facilities and plans for the next 0-5, 5-10 and 10 + years. They also indicated that the Planning Commission rotas interested in the Park Board's recommendations on Rush Lake. The Park Board indicated that it Uras in favor of the acquisition rf Rush Lake by Ramsey County for open space with certain reservations. The disposition of the Mississippi extension is one reservation and the nature of a cooperative agreement in terms of developing and operating the Rush Lake - Long Lake - Rice Creek area. is another. Sherlock noted that Rush Lake became an open space consideration only after Ramsey County began its overtures to the Village. He further noted that financing it would be difficult for the Village to attempt to acquire Rush Lake.. In terms of long range acquisition, it is the intention of the Park Board to provide 1z acres of recreation open space per J00 population. The present Comprehensive Park Plan will provide this sufficient open space for a ?population of 50,000. The Board also had adopted as a goal that a recreation area be accessible (inside physical barriers such as freeways, county roads, etc.) to every resident. Therefore, the Board has as its goal to acquire sufficient park land to meet these criteria. If future life styles create a population density unforeseen at this time, the pattern should be flexible enough to respond to such an occurrence.