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AGENDA
JOINT CITY,, COUNCIL/PARK AND RECREATION ADVISORY COMMISSION MEETING
APRIL 2, 198:6
6:OO P.M.
1. Recreation programming - use of park facilities and selection of programs:
2. Discussion of clients served, by recreational. programming.
3. Review o6 Field usage policy.
4... Discussion of level of expenditures and maintenance levels.
5. Timing of park construction and trail construction as related to the
budget,
6 Development of future neighborhood parks,
7. Community Center -- activities for 3986.
ToLal of tallies received. by March 19, 1986. 440 sent, 52 returned
IMPERIAL HILLS
NEIGHBORHOOD PARI: QLESTIONNAIRE
I,. Number of people living in.house
2.. Ages: (indicate. how many from each age category'
Pre-school 20 Sr. High 16
Elementary 26_ Adults Q';
Jr. High 13 Seniors 10
3. Please check items your family would use - read. the list to children, and
get their input also.
a. 22 volleyball
RANKING
b.3_ benches 1. Trash barrels
2:. Benches
c,. 23 swings 3. Picnic tables
4; Bike racks
d. 23 tine swings 5. Creative wood climbers
6. Swings and tire swings tied
e, 20 tunnel slide 7. Volleyball and exercise equip. tied
8. Tunnel slide
f. 16 cargo nets 9. Cargo nets
10. Spring animals
g. 13 spring animals
h. 22 exercise equipment
i., 31 -picnic, tables
j_. 27 bike racks
1 obstacle course
k. 24 creative wood climbers 1 grills
1. 35 trash barrels I horseshoe pits
1 fountain
m, 5 other iaggin-Cails
1 skateboard ramp
n. 4 other ba tiprhall hao, I sledding, hill
o. 4 other so b Tt field 2 spiral slide
3 swimming pool 2 lights
3 soccer nets 2 bathrooms
3 tennis courts 2 monkey bars
2 ice rink 2 sand diggers
4. Please consider the. following when planning for our neighborhood park:
IMpCRIAL HILLS PARK COtDIENTS:
1. How do you propose to handle security in this isolated area? This has
drawn groups at times making use and safety of this park questionable.
2.. More clean sand, or upgraded periodically,
3. The trees and woods along the telephone lines running north and south in
the park should be trimmed and cleaned up - some cut down.
4; Safety cut weeds back, allow for safety. The park is very isolated -
It's unsafe to let children go there alone.: Strangers could easily
prey on our children unseen. Frankly, the place is pretty, but very
frightening for a parent: j
5. Vandalism.. The isolated, setting. People can do destructive things
without being seen. Mosquito control.. Include items usable by
toddlers and by older kids. Consider drainage to, minimize mud after a
rain.
5. Do things which would have low vandalism: Don't create a place for drugs
to be sold.
7. I have seen an exercise course laid out at a park in Golden Valley. I would
like to see some exercise equipment located away from the playground equipment
so adults could use it.
8.. The only thing that I would prefer to see improved at Imperial Hills is the stlow
removal from the park access walks, especially the walk that exits from Urban-
dale. Snow has not been removedtrom this walk during the entire winter, and,
entrance to the park from this source has been quite difficult at times. This
has been especially true for children who use this entrance to get to the
gskatn rink.: It is miraculous that some child has not been seriotisl y inured
while climbing over the pile of ice and snow built up at the curb, by the snowT
removal equipment. An inspection of the pa k entrance at this point will illustrate
the danger referred to. Snout removal equipment is brought in regularly from
the Shadyvi,ew entrance and uses the blacktop walk to the skating rink to clean
it. This walk is. kept in excellent condition. Incidentally, part of the snow
removed from the skating rink is piled directly on the: walk leading out to
Urbandale. Could not this snow removal equipment make an occasional trip
out on the walk leading, to Urbandale?
9. We rarely use the park or allow our children to use it - because its sheltered.
location makes it a gathering place for people and activities less than
desirable.
10., Time park will open and: close park 'attendant - water fountains maintenance.
11. Skating rink and warming house.
12. We live on Troy Lane and are concerned about the possibility of an accicent.
as kids, bicycles and dogs shoot onto the road from the path through the
woods. This is,, 1 believe, private property and the owners have tried
unsuccessfully to block the path. What is legitimate access to the park from
Troy Lane? Please advise our association.
13, Do the minimum.
14. More shade trees,
15. Keep the ice rink appropriate lighting.
16. Please consider activities and safety of pre-school and elementary age
children.. They seem to be the. gvOup who uses the park the mostand,
get the most enjoyment out Of it'
17. 1lpgrade basketball court - baseball diamond in southwest corner (has
axl.,,s
natural seating) Signs at all entrances "This: is a pooper-scooper p
Signs to be installed where people come in from Troy Trane. I'No snowmobile
signs as on Luce Line trail. Replace all damaged and/or 4e,stroyed trees,
etc., immediately. Install park signs. at 17th Avenue, and"center entrance.
Why don't we produce a, universal sign to be used in all parks, etc.7
18. We've really enjoyed the skating rink for winter activities. please
continue. to maintain and keep it it until 9:40-10,00 p•m. Also,
developing, a sledding _area would enhance year-round use of the purk.
19. Evening lighting. Visibility to see who is in the park area - no hiding
places for drinking, etc..
20 Walking/bike paths cleared of snow all winter.
21.. Tennis courts would be nice!
22. Do something to prevent vandalism.
23. Lots of lights and more open to surrounding area to help prevent vandalism.
We don't need any :more baseball diamonds, try to divide the park into smaller
areas each devoted to one activity, i.e., children's play area, soccer
goals, volleyball, horseshoes. Put up signs for "absolutely no golfing"
it is simply too dangerous with children playing.
24. Could consideration be given for a neighborhood standard Olympic size
pool?
25. Running track around perimeter of park built in such a wav that, joggingparentcanseetheirpre-school and young elementary children playing on
playground equipment
26. Routine patrol of the park. Safe, walking paths. Clean-up laws for
people walking dogs and horses!'
27. Proper lighting.
28. It would be very nice to have better equipment, at the park..
29. Benches for parents near play equipment so they can sit and watch children
as they swing, slide,, etc.
Total of tallies rc o:eived by March 19, 1956, (260 mailed, 40, returned)
QUEEN SLAND
E1GHBORIjOQD PAhK QUES ION ATRS
1 Number of people: living in house
2, Ages: (indicate how many from each age c0tegotV
Pre-school 17 Sr., High ___L
Elementary 20Adults 73
Jr. High 12 Seniors C
3. Please check items your family would use read the list to'children and
get their input also
a, 20 volleyball RANKING
b. 2 benches I Trash barrels
2. Benches and picnic tables tied
C, 25 sans 3. Swings
4. Paved trails.
d. 1S t tre stip: 5. Creative wood climbers
6.. Volleyball, tunnel, sl3 e and bike racks tiod
ei .2 tunnel. slide 7. Exercise equipment and pleasure rank
lihting tied
f. 14 cams nets 8. Tire Wings
9 Cargo nets
g. 12 spring animals 10 Spring animals and picnic shelter tied
h.; 16 exercise equipment
i.. 26 picnic tables
J. 20 bike racks
k. 23 creative wood clambers
1. 29 trash, barrels
rn. 5 othertuzis coLus 1 swimming pool
3 soccer nets
n• 4_othe 1 slid
2 sandbox
o.._other skateboarsi' ren-- 1 restrooms
2 hockey rink
P. 1___2 picnic shelter 2 baseball diamond
1 sand diggers
q. 16jleasure rink lighting 1 monkey bars
1 see -saw
r• 24 paved trails 1 adult exercise course
4. Please consider the following when planning for our neighborhood park:
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QUEENSLAND PARK CONNEN.TS
1. it's fine as is. Spend as little as possible.
2. Car parking.
3 Litter has made it undesirable to walk from 6th Avenue to the park.
Also may consider a paved path around the border of the park instead of
trail which would encourage motorized vehicles
4.. More frequent visits by our police to. secure park and improve police/
children relations.
5. Please redo the basketball, area - front of rim points up and it is the wrong
height - also edges are dangerous and surface rough -- improperly marked.
6_. ;Zany kids in the surrounding areas are now skateboarding.
74 Please consider dredging, of the marsh just off the trail connecting 6th
Avenue to the: park -- it would be a beautiful place for ducks, etc., if
not quite so overgrown. Also, please take steps to make sure that motor-
cycles, cars and snowmobiles cannot use this trail..
opening the rarshes into,ponds capable of supporting ducks and other wildlife.
Maintain as inuch natural habitat for nature as possible within the park. Also,
clean up previous deposits of concrete and blacktop. obviously, the ,grading
has included the use of fill and a dump site.
9. Put down, a base of sand rather than stones; wood chips mai* also be preferable..
10.. Trail to Hawthorne. Ponds should be paved and one from 8th. Avenue north to
Hadley Hills should be paved. Fence west side of park so that balls don't
roll into swamp
11. Paved trails most important improvement for the Hawthorne Ponds area.
Cleaning the trail in the winter would make it possible for us to use the ice.
12. We appreciate having the path to Hawthorne Ponds cleared. Sometimes it gets
pretty ° muddy and grown over and full of mosquitoes.
13. Make it a safe, fun place for all.
14. Please consider a '"family oriented" park, which is the reason I have checked
such things as picnic tables; and volleyball,, which are activities families
can do together. of course, with younger children, things such_as swings
and tunnel, slide would be better. There are never enough tennis courts!
15. our neighborhood has grown up together. Most of us on the two Queensland
cul-de-sacs have kids in junior and senior high school.
16. Continue the Playground in the Streets programs - they're superb! More
supervision and limited:d beer drinking in the, park so families can enjoy
the park in the evenings, too.
17. The park is close to our house, but we still need to drive because the
kids are small. Therefore, 1 think you should make a few parking spaces.
1 We have mired emotions about an increase of equipment at Queensland Park.
More will possibly brim people from other areas. 'that's more cars on
the dead-end street who will use our Wards, to park in front of (& on someti es)
and driveways to turn around in. We don't mind that as much as the possi-
bility of teenagers>mis-using the park if there are more things to vandalize.
After chainin; the picnic tables to the shelter this winter, the tables are
still there - Hurrah! We lore the park and the natural Look that it has.
The marsh newt to it has been home for nesting geese for years. We would
hate to see it disturbed. If the people using the park could have a
satellite toilet, I'm sure it would. be a big help, especially for little
ores. How about chaining it to a tree on the pike path? beep the marsh
and natural feeling of park:
19. Paved trail would be nine, especially from 6th Avenue. A tennis bang board._
20. it would be nice if the brush would be, cut down in swamp area: (just four feet
wide) for a circular cross-country ski, trail. This trail would connect to
existing paved trail.
21. Access to park from lower Queensland Lane - a bike trail of some sort would
be sufficient - leading off from the cul-de-sac at 540 Queensland Lane.
March 10 1986 n
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Representative Doug Carlson L.1 1 ' ODJR
Chairman, Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources
Room:65, State Office Building
St. Paul, MN 5515
Dear Representative Carlson
In response to your letter. dated January 16, 1986,, the Plymouth Park and:
Recreation Advisory Commission met on Thursday, February 13, todiscuss.
those natural resource opportunities that they feel should be considered
for funding in 1987.
Please consider the following issues
1. Cleaning up our lakes, rid=ers and streams.
2. Continuedacquisition of high-quality park and recreation
lands.
3. The possible introduction of white amur fish into our lakes
and 'ponds to help eliminate weeds, etc.
4. The: development o riverandlake oriented recreation
opportunities.
On behalf of the Park and Recreation Advisory Commission and myself, I would
like to thank you for the opportunity to share these very important issues:
with the Legislative Commission on Minnesota Resources.
If you have any questions, please feel free: to contact me.
Sincerely,.
Eric J. Blank, Director
Park and Recreation Dept.
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