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To: Mayor Jabbour& City Councilmembers <br /> Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br /> From: Mike Gaffron, Senior Planning Coordinator <br /> Date: September 2, 1997 <br /> Subject: Orono Ice Arena Landscape Plan-Revisions Approved by Staff <br /> Gary Schroeder, Operations Manager for the Ice Arena, submitted a revised tree planting plan that <br /> substitutes coniferous trees for most of the hardwoods originally planned for those areas generally <br /> within 50'of the building. They are getting these mature pine and spruce trees from the school annex <br /> east of Old Crystal Bay Road,where the existing rows of trees need thinning. This will save the Ice <br /> Arena approximately$19,000. <br /> The coniferous trees will provide some immediate screening adjacent to the building which would <br /> likely have taken 5-10 years to develop with the smaller deciduous stock initially proposed. <br /> The original plan proposes approximately 12 future additional trees(honeylocust,red maple,red oak) <br /> within and around the parking lot area,which will help to soften the view of the parking lot,and will <br /> be in keeping with the existing school property trees along the west side of Old Crystal Bay Road. <br /> Jack Nuveau of the Ice Arena agreed they would plant these additional trees within the next year. <br /> Staff approved this minor change to the landscape/planting plan subject to the additional trees being <br /> planted next year and subject to City retaining the right to review the coniferous plantings when <br /> completed and require any additional plantings needed. <br />