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THIS FACILITY WILL BE LT41QUE NOT ONLY TO THE !METROPOLITAN AREA BUT ALSO TO THE STATE OF MINNESOTA. THE NEAREST SIMILAR FACILITY 15 THE DISPLAY GARDEN WITHIN THE BOERNER BOTANICAL GARDEN IN MILWUAKEE, WISCONSIN WHICH IS LOCATED APPROXIMATELY 12 MILES SOUTK%EST OF DOWNTOWN MILWAUKEE Al -JD DRAWS OVER 1,000,000 VISITORS PER YEAR. THE METROPOLITAN AREA LACKS A PUBLIC DISPLAY GARDEN AND THE DEMAND APPEARS TO BE SUFFICIENT TO WARRANT HAVING ONE. THE QUESTION IS THEN RAISED WHETHER THE NOERENBERG SITE IS CONDUCIVE TO SATISFYING THE DISPLAY GARDEN NEED. SEVERAL FACTORS INDICATE THAT IT IS. 1. ACQUISITION OF LAND THE 73.31 ACRES WITH 1.61 MILES OF SHORELINE ON LAKE MINNETONKA WERE GIVEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF ESTABLISHING A DISPLAY GARDEN AND SANCTUARY. IN ADDITION TO THE LAND, STOCK CERTIFICATES WERE GIVEN WHICH PROVIDE INTEREST INCOMEE THAT WILL BE USED TO HELP DEFRAY OPERATING EXPENSES. 2. HERITAGE OF THE SITE THE SITE WAS A PRIVATE ESTATE WITH A SIGNIFICANT PRIVATE GARDEN. IT IS APPROPRIATE TO DEVELOP A GARDEN AT LEAST AS ATTRACTIVE AS THAT WHICH ONCE EXISTED THERE. THIS SITE IS ALSO LOCATED WITHIN THE ESTATE AREA OF THE LAKE MINNETONKA REGION WHICH MAKES THE DEVELCPt�'ENT AS A GARDEN A VERY COMPATIBLE LAND USE. A NUMBER OF GARDE14S OF THIS TYPE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY ARE LUCATED ON FORMER ESTATES WHICH WERE BEQUEATHED TO THE PUBLIC. PHYSICAL SETTING THE SITE IS LOCATED ON LAKE MINNETONKA, THE LARGEST LAKE IN THE METRO- POLITAN AREA AND IS CURRENTLY THE LARGEST SINGLE PUBLIC LAKESHORE OWNERSHIP ON THE LAKE. THE COMBINATION OF LAKE ORIENTATION AND SITE CHARACTER MAKES THIS AN EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE SETTING FOR A DISPLAY GARDEI J . P,ELATIOtISHIP OF SITE TO LOCAL COtAtlUNITY APJD METROPOLITAN AREA THE SITE IS LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY OF ORONO WHICH IS WITHIN THE DEVELOPING RIW QF SUBURBS IN THE40UTHWEST MINNEAPOLIS PLANNING SECTOM !i * *E METRO- - POLITAN COU14CIL. THE URBA14 SERVICE AREA AS SHOWN ON THE DEVELbPMENT FRAMEWORK PLA14 OF THE t-ETROPOLITAN COLflCIL INCLUDES MOST OF THE CITY OF ORONO. THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE CITY AROUIJD LAKE MINNETONKA IS INCLUDED IN THF URBAN SERVICE AREA. THE NOERENBERG SITE IS WITHIN THIS CATEGORY. THE CITY'S COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE PLA!4 (AUGUST 1974) IDENTIFIES AND RECOGNIZES THE IOERENBERG MEMORIAL COUNTY PARE: AS EXISTING WITHIN THE COV"ITY'S DEVELOPMENT. TRAVEL TO THE SITE FROM OTHER PARTS OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA IS BY PRIVATE AUTO AND PUBLIC BUS TRANSPORTATION.