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AGENDA City of Orono Project Advisory Committee Meeting Set for Thursday, March 22, 2018 7:00 pm Orono Council Chambers, 2780 Kelley Parkway, Orono, MN 55356 952-249-4600 / www.ci.orono.mn.us AGENDA 1. Discuss Park, Open Space, and Trail chapters 2. Navarre Area Plan ADJOURN (8:30 pm) Next Meeting: Tuesday, April 24th, 2018. Open House, Thursday, May 10th PAC meeting #11 March 22, 2018 1. This month, we review the Parks, Trails, and Open space chapter of the Comprehensive Plan. This chapter has been developed through the Parks Commission over the past several months and was reviewed by the Park Commission earlier this month. They support its’ submittal. The staff report to the Park Commission, the draft of the text, and the 4 appendices are provided for your review. This chapter identifies Park, regional and school recreational facilities, and includes general goals and policies. There are statements specific to Big Island, the Golf Course, and the trails. 2. Navarre Area Plan. Also included is the Navarre Area Plan. This plan will be presented to the public at a joint Planning Commission/ City Council workshop on April 9th, at 5 pm. The findings of the area plan, and any changes suggested after the open house will be incorporated into the comprehensive plan. You will see these changes either in April at our last meeting, or for the open house in May. Schedule. We have one regular meeting left, April 24th. Following that, the public open house is scheduled for May 10th, 2018 at City Hall from 5:30 to 7:30. The plan must be submitted to the Met Council for approval by December 31, 2018. The schedule moving forward: March 22 Parks, Trails, and Open Spaces April 24 Full review, Revisit Land Use Map May 10 Public Comment period starts, Open House June 18 Planning Commission July 9 City Council August-Oct November Planning Commission, City Council December 10 City Council, submit CMP Part 4E. Parks, Trails, and Open Spaces Parks, Open Space and Trail Plan 1. Introduction 2 2. Park Classification and Definitions. 2 Table 4E-1 Parks Classifications and Definitions 2 3. Existing Park, Open Space and Trail System Inventory 3 Table 4E-2 Parks Facilities 4 Table 4E-3 Regional Facilities 5 Table 4E-4 School Facilities 5 Table 4E-5 Lakes 6 4. Park System Needs Identification. 6 Table 4E-6 Parks, Open Space and Trail Acreage by Classification 6 5. Park, Open Space and Trail Goals and Policies 7 A. Goals B. Policies 6. Park, Open Space and Trail Action Plan. 9 Table 4E-7 Big Island Implementation 10 Table 4E-8 Golf Course Implementation 11 Table 4E-9 Trail Implementation 11 Appendix. A. Parks and Trails Map B. Lake Access map C. Park Details D. Lake Access Point Listing City of Orono Community Management Plan 2020-2040 Page 4E-1 CMP Part 4E. Parks, Trails, and Open Spaces 1. Introduction. The provision of parks, open space areas and trails in Orono is an essential quality of life element for the residents of the City. It is important for Orono to develop and implement a thoughtful strategy for meeting these needs in an efficient, economical manner. This Park, Open Space and Trail Plan is a refinement and restatement of the ongoing planning practice of the City of Orono. It respects and maintains the historic development patterns of the City. It continues many of the basic open space concepts established by the first organized comprehensive planning attempts in the mid 1960's, the 1974 Orono Village Comprehensive Guide Plan, and the 1980 Community Management Plan, the 2000-2020 CMP, and the 2010-2030 CMP. This Plan is prepared and presented for the following purposes: A. To identify the recreation and open space needs of the City and its citizens. B. To be a management tool for City officials, appointed commissions, City staff, and other parties involved in developing, maintaining, and managing recreational programs and city owned facilities in Orono. C. Serve as the recreation open space element of our community management plan, designed to address and conform to all the applicable provisions of the Metropolitan Council's 2040 Regional Parks Policy Plan 2. Park Classification and Definitions. Orono residents are serviced by a variety of park, recreation, open space, and trail facilities provided by the City, regional and state government, the Orono School District, and private enterprise. In addition, the community benefits from facilities in nearby communities which are accessible to and used by Orono residents. Table 4E-1 Park Classification and Definitions1 Component Use Service Size Site Attributes & Location Area Local Facilities Mini-park Specialized facilities that serve a Less than 1/4 < 1 acre May be publicly or privately owned and/or concentrated or limited mile radius incorporated into a development site, such as population or specific group apartment, such as tots or senior citizens. Neighborhood park/ Area for intense recreational ¼ to ½ mile < 25 acres Physical geography suited for intense playground activities such as field games, radius to serve development. Proximity to elementary schools court games, crafts, apparatus a population of or residential neighborhoods. area, skating, and neighborhood 4,000 – 5,000 centers. (one neighborhood) Community Area for intense recreational 3 - 5 25 - 50 Physical geography suited for intense playfield facilities such as athletic fields neighborhoods acres development. Proximity to secondary schools and swimming pools; could or one and other public facilities. include a neighborhood use. community Community park Area of natural or ornamental 3 - 5 25 - 100 Proximity to community facilities and quality for outdoor recreation neighborhoods acres resources. such as walking, viewing, or one sitting, picnicking; could have community some field and court games. Conservancy lands Area of natural quality such as Municipality, Variable, Natural resources that merit preservation and watercourses and wetlands that township, based on that would be negatively affected by are preserved for environmental county or state extent of development. or aesthetic benefits to the resources. community and/or because of the negative environmental or economic effects of development in them. City of Orono Community Management Plan 2020-2040 Page 4E-2 CMP Part 4E. Parks, Trails, and Open Spaces Local linear parks, Area developed for one or more A Contained On- or off-road trails that may or may not trail, corridors and varying modes of recreational neighborhood within one traverse scenic areas while assuring the trail parkways travel such as hiking, biking, or several city or treadway has no adverse effect on the natural snowmobiling, horseback riding, neighborhoods township. resource base. cross-country skiing, canoeing in a city or Width and and driving. township length minimums vary by locality. Lake access2 These areas provide access to 3 - 5 <1 Acre Developed or undeveloped public right of way. lakes for activities such as neighborhoods swimming, boating, fishing, or one snowmobiling, walking skiing, community snowshoeing and winter vehicular lake access. County linear parks, Area developed for one or more Several cities Traverses On- or off-road trails that may or may not trail, corridors and varying modes of recreational and/or one or more traverse scenic areas while assuring the trail parkways travel such as hiking, biking, townships in a municipaliti treadway has no adverse effect on the natural snowmobiling, horseback riding, county es. Width resource base. cross-country skiing, canoeing and length and driving. minimums vary by county. Special recreation Area that preserves, Community Specific Appropriate to particular special recreation feature maintains, and provides standard feature. Sited where most advantageous for the specialized or single purpose applicable special recreation feature and the overall park activities to desired system. feature. Regional Facilities County park Area of natural or ornamental County 25 - 100 Affords natural features with varied physical quality for outdoor recreation acres geographic interest. Proximity to community such as walking, viewing, facilities and resources and/or where resource sitting, picnicking; could have occurs. some field and court games. Regional park Area of natural or ornamental 3 - 5 200 - 500 Complete natural setting contiguous to water quality for nature-oriented communities acres bodies or watercourses where possible. Where outdoor recreation such as natural resource occurs-particularly water. picnicking, boating, fishing, swimming, camping and trail uses. Regional park Area of natural quality for County, multi- 1000+ Diversity of unique resources, such as reserve nature-oriented outdoor county area acres topography, lakes, streams, marshes, flora, recreation such as viewing and fauna. Where natural resource occurs. studying nature, wildlife habitat, conservation, swimming, picnicking, hiking, boating, camping and trail uses. Regional Area developed for one or more The entire Sufficient When feasible, off-road trails that utilize human destination & varying modes of non-motorized metropolitan corridor made and/or natural linear resources such as linking trails recreational travel such as hiking, region width and utility corridors, railroad and highway rights of biking, horseback riding, cross- length to way, stream / river valleys, or at the edges of country skiing, and canoeing. accommoda forest or prairie. On-road trails are acceptable te trail. when off-road trails are not feasible. Preferably adjacent to high-quality natural areas. The trail treadway should be placed where it has no adverse impact on the natural resource base. When feasible, linking trails should attempt to connect to population, economic and social centers along its route. 1from Met council Parks Definitions 2City of Orono Definition 3. Existing Park, Open Space and Trail System Inventory. A. City of Orono Facilities. The City of Orono maintains over 260 acres of parks, trails and open space. The table below summarizes the types of parks and facilities available City of Orono Community Management Plan 2020-2040 Page 4E-3 CMP Part 4E.
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