Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 06/08/1995

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PARK IMPROVEMENTS The City of Ramsey has been divided into 17 districts which constitute neighborhoods. Each neighborhood district is intended to receive the full realm of park services within, or readily accessible to, the district. It is intended that this can be achieved by either development of one fully comprehensive park within each district or development of various types of park and recreation amenities in various district locations with development of trail systems leading to and between each of these park facilities. Within the 1995 - 2000 time frame, the proposed Capital Improvements Program includes development within most of the 17 park districts. P-I - Itasca/Ermine Park and Tr.ql Corridor Included herein, is the developmen! of a trail system originating at the Whispering Pines and Northfork subdivisions at Whispering Pines park. This is at approximately 154th Avenue N.W. and Puma Street N.W., running north to the Hunters Ridge and Autumn Heights subdivisions, at t67th Avenue N.W. and County Road #83, The cost estimate is $160,000. The first $120,000 is dedicated from the Landfill Trust Fund with the balance paid out of current and future park dedication receipts into the Park Trust Fund. In 1995, $57,000 is projected from the Landfill Trust Fund to develop the Whisper/ng Pines park hub to this trail systen-t. During 1995/1996, during construction of the 153rd extension, an off-road trail between Armstrong Boulevard N.W. and Puma Street N.W. on 153rd Avenue N.W. is projected out of MSA funds connecting m the Greenland Hills park district [see S-2]. Project - Itasc,'l_/Ermine Northfork Trail Whispering Pines Park ",'ear Funding 1993- $120,000 - LFT 1996 $ 40.,000.- Park Trtlst Fund 1995 $ 57,000 - LFT $ 217,000 P-2 - Greenland Hills The Greenland Hills district currently has two wetland parks which are undeveloped. North of these parks, adjacent to the surrounding wetland, is projected the final extension of the .153rd Avenue N.W. crosstown. It is proposed that the Landfill Trust Fund provide funding for acquisition of the 153rd extension south of the road fight-of-way in order to provide for a future nature preserve. As parr th'e the roadway construction project, a trail will be developed utilizing MSA funds along this extension connecting to the trail system in the ltasca/Ermine districts. This will allow for the residents in the Greenland Hills and neai"by districts and neighborhoods to access the Whispering Pines Park, and the Itasca/Ermine trail system and it completes two-thirds of a trail loop that when completed will connect to Traprock Park, Central Park and Autumn Heights Park. Project - Greenlan.d... Hills Year Funding Nature preserve acquisition* 1994 $ 80,000 - LFT *Also noted in S-2 $ 80,0O0