Agenda - Parks and Recreation Commission - 04/13/2017

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While there is a well for water on the site, there is not drinking water available at the park. Future plans include hooking into the city water and sewer services during the restroom and shelter phase of development. A sanitary sewer hook-up location is currently located along the existing Riverdale Drive. Water service locations will be completed as part of the frontage road extension project. The cost to hook into these services is estimated to be about $350,000. CONFLICTS Conflicts related to park development will be kept to a minimum through the proper planning and community engagement. See additional information regarding engagement in the Public Engagement and Participation section of this document. The park is adjacent to Highway 10 to the north and the Mississippi River to the south. The highway and proposed frontage road will create experiential conflicts for users. Therefore, additional vegetated screening and buffering will be used to enhance the safety, aesthetics and quality of the park experience. It is anticipated that the proposed City of Ramsey Riverdale Drive Extension project will impact about 5 acres of the park along the northern boundary. This impact is anticipated to be mitigated through an equally valuable facility exchange as illustrated in Figure 8. It is anticipated that development will impact some of the native prairie and grassland restorations established within the park. The County anticipates temporary impacts to those areas will be restored. In areas where impacts are unavoidable, the County will mitigate those impacts by restoring other non-native areas within the park. Conflicts between pedestrians and vehicular traffic will be kept to a minimum by reducing the number of trail and road crossings within the park and by working with the City of Ramsey to ensure safe crossings at city road intersections. Treatments for these areas may include signing, striping and signalized pedestrian crossings. In addition, signs within the parks will alert users of potential conflict areas, i.e. street crossings, driveway crossings, pedestrian cross -traffic, etc., and will provide way - finding and interpretive information. PUBLIC SERVICES Since this park is mostly undeveloped, currently there are no public services available within the park. As discussed in the development concept, future development will include hooking into city services for water and sanitary. Current city sanitary service is located near the northeast of the park and proposed city water service will be made available as part of the city's Riverdale Drive extension project. When restroom and pavilion development occurs, these services will be included as part of those development plans. 3/6/2017 Mississippi West Regional Park Master Plan Amendment 10