Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 02/10/2000

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Required Connection This park could be considered already accessible because Dysprosium Street is currently signed for no parking. An off-roadway sidewalk, however, would be preferred. This could be achieved by narrowing the paved surface on one side. Emerald Pond Park Full-service neighborhood park. Required Connection A trail along County Road #116 will provide a more direct route to the park. This will likely occur with the reconstruction of the road between Sunfish Lake Blvd. and Trunk Highway #47. Currently, 142"d Avenue to the north provides a residential street connection. Rivers Bend Park Full-service community park. As indicated above, a trail along County Road #116 will likely occur with the reconstruction of the roadway - perhaps within the next few years. However, this is proposed to be on the south side. Required Connection It is strongly recommended that the developer and the City work together to construct a trail on the north side of County Road #116 from Dysprosium Street to Trunk Highway #47. This would allow townhome residents to access the controlled intersection whereby they may travel north by sidewalk to the park at 142"d Avenue. This will also provide a link to the south half of Rivers Bend, Anoka High School, and the library, tf the City is successful in identifying a funding source for paving a route from Trunk Highway #47 to the bridge on the south side of County Road #116. Either or both of these segments would be eligible for CDBG funding. Enlowe Park (City of Anoka) Full-service neighborhood park with sliding hill. Required Connection A sidewalk/trail to the intersection of County Road #116 and Ramsey's Dysprosium Street would allow pedestrians to travel south on Anoka's Thurston Street sidewalk and the east on a commercial/industrial street to the park. (This does necessitate crossing the road mid-block, however.) The above connection to the intersection would allow pedestrians to use residential streets to access Enlowe Park when the aforementioned trail is constructed along County Road #116 with the road's reconstruction. Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends that: 1) No parkland be dedicated as part of the 57-unit townhome development. 2) Private open space should be identified as part of the apartment complex site plan. 3) The developer be required to construct an eight-foot wide concrete or bituminous sidewalk on the south and east side of the city street to be constructed including the west side of Barium Street to the existing segments and that this sidewalk be extended south to the intersection of Dysprosium Street and County Road #116. This would be a Stage I improvement and not park or trail dedication eligible.