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■ Students can investigate what the city can do to design these parcels to be <br />visually -unobtrusive recreation areas <br />• Students should read and interoperate the work of the fall semester students as they work on <br />these projects <br />Project 8 — Greenway Plan <br />• Ramsey has several regional parks for its residents to use, but some residents have limited <br />access to these resources. The City of Ramsey has proposed that a greenway be built that circles <br />to the community to connect residents to the parks across the city <br />• There are currently gaps within the greenway that need to filled, such the section of trail that <br />will connect the COR, Ramsey's downtown district, to Lake Itasca <br />o A tentative plan for this connection was recently dismissed because it lacked specificity <br />• The students could design this trail paying particular focus to the following aspects: <br />o The specific route the trail will follow <br />o The design landscape design surrounding the trail <br />o Storm water retention systems for the greenway <br />o Where infrastructure such as benches or signs will be placed <br />o How the trail will connect with the COR <br />■ The city currently has several concept designs for this connection that the <br />students can use as a foundation <br />• This clearly defined concept design will be used to create a city -approved greenway plan that <br />ensures its development <br />• This project will allow for the collaboration of all three professors and an interdisciplinary team <br />of students <br />General Meeting Discussion <br />• The three proposed projects are listed below: <br />1. Building concept for a centralized community center in the COR with a particular focus on <br />sustainable and green architecture <br />2. Identify underutilized parcels in rural Ramsey and create concept designs for decentralized <br />recreation areas/facilities that will not detract from the area's rural character <br />3. Create a detailed concept design for a greenway that connects Lake Itasca and the COR that <br />incorporates storm water management and trail space <br />• James will discuss these projects with his co -instructors on Monday <br />• Students in the class will be working on the projects that are proposed. That is to say, there is no <br />chance of a project being proposed and not being selected by the students <br />• The instructors will write project proposals for each of these projects and share them with Mark <br />and RCP before presenting them to the students <br />• Mark and RCP are invited to come to class to speak on and field questions about the projects <br />