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Mr. Boos: If there's some weekend use - maybe - but there have been no adult tournaments in <br />Ramsey in four years. Alpine Park is near the largest population center in the City and can be <br />accessed more easily. Plus, the land is owned by the City. We would like it to become developed <br />in some fashion this year so we can have more ball fields. <br /> <br />Resident: What about rezoning some other land? <br /> <br />Mr. Schroeder: We would have to find inexpensive land for park land. <br /> <br />Mr. Boos: Titterud Park has one ball field, tennis courts and a picnic area. <br /> <br />Mr. Struwve: How do we down-size this development? <br /> <br />Mr. Schroeder: The concepts are 38 lots or 43 lots. City Council could approve some lower <br />density. Your recommendation is to down-size it further - to develop it with five-acre lots is not <br />reasonable. <br /> <br />Mr. Struwve: Our kids are already in jeopardy living on that road. It's a race track. The Police <br />Department does not have manpower to keep someone there all the time. The City Engineer has <br />said he cannot lower the speed limit. <br /> <br />Mr. Schroeder: If it's urban - then we can lower the speed limit to 30 or 35 miles per hour. <br /> <br />Mr. Struwve: The speed limit does not matter. <br /> <br />Resident: Ball parks - who do you expect to be using these athletic fields? <br /> <br />Mr. Schroeder: The Ramsey Youth Athletic Association, as well as the neighborhoods. <br /> <br />Mr. Boos: We are talking about developing this in phases. <br /> <br />Comments were made about parks not being maintained properly or well and that there were sand <br />burr problems in Central Park. <br /> <br />Mr. Schroeder: A few years ago, we had a lower maintenance budget. <br /> <br />Mr. Droegemueller: I have lived here since 1986, and Central Park has never had a sand burr <br />problem. The sand burr problems have been at the school ball fields and the City has no control <br />over that. One of the problems we have had with Central Park has not been the grass. <br /> <br />Resident: Is the main push to provide ball fields? <br /> <br />Mr. Droegemueller: No, two-thirds of the land we are looking at for passive use. We are looking <br />at it to give as much open space and quiet and open area as possible. <br /> <br />Resident: What kind of lighting will there be? <br /> <br />Mr. Droegemueller: Initially there will be no lighting. That is not planned yet and it is so <br />expensive. <br /> <br />Park and Recreation Commissioner Johns: In phase II, there is lighting shown for safety. <br /> <br />Mr. Struwve: I would like to see less fields. <br /> <br />Alpine Neighborhood Meeting/January 2, 1997 <br /> Page 4 of 7 <br /> <br /> <br />