04-11-1988 - Agenda Packet City Council - regular meeting

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agencies to provide water access sites in regional parks. The Council _ s acquisition and development grants to implementing agencies for lake ac .s projects. The source of the grants is state bonds approved by the legislature on a biennial basis. In 1987, the following tasks were accomplished: ANOKA COUNTY The Anoka County Park Department paved the existing parking lot at the Lake George Regional Park access as part of the first phase in rer..eveloping the park. HENNEPIN COUNTY - The Minneapolis Park and Recreation Board completed development of a boat launch, small harbor with day -use slips. and parking for 30 car -trailers on Boom Island. just south of Plymouth Av. on the east bank of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. This project is part of a $2.6 million dev- opment grant of state bonds awarded by the Metropolitan Council for Central Mississippi Riverfront Regional Park in 1985. - The Suburban Hennepin Regional Park District (SHRPD) prepared a concept plan for a regional park on Lake Minnetonka in response to recommendationf of the Metropolitan Council's Report on Lake Minnetonka. The plan proposed acquisition of 292 acres in the city of Minnetrista with parcels on Halsted and Smithtown Bays. The Metropolitan Council approved the plan in March and the legislature authorized $6 million of state bonds to acquire/develop the park in May. The concept plan. approved by the Metropolitan Council in March, proposed boat launching facilities with 100 car -trailer spaces. The Minnetrista City Council initially opposed a park larger than 125 acres and preferred only land on Smithtown Bay be acquired. The SHRPD set up a citizen advisory committee to develop a more detailed master plan and attempt to resolve the issue of park size and location. The SHRPD Board of Commissioners will consider the advisory committee recommendations in 1988. 1