HomeMy WebLinkAbout6.j. Metro Greenway for Planning GrantCITY OF ROSEMOUNT
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY FOR ACTION
CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: February 15, 2000
AGENDA ITEM: METRO GREENWAY PLANNING GRANT
AGENDA SECTION:
CONSENT
PREPARED BY: DAN SCHULTZ PARKS AND RECREATION
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ATTACHMENTS: RESOLUTION
APPROVED BY:
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The City of Rosemount has recently been approached by the Friends of the Mississippi, who are working with
the City of Hastings to secure a Metro Greenways Planning Grant. The Friends of the Mississippi Conservation
Director, Tom Lewanski, met with Mayor Busho and myself to discuss if the City of Rosemount would be
interested in being a partner in this grant.
The grant would be used to fund the Mississippi River Greenway Strategic Plan that is intended to build on three
recent efforts with similar focus: Hastings Green Way Plan (City of Hastings), Protecting Dakota County
Farmland and Natural Areas (Dakota County) and Dakota County Township Greenway Plan (Township Officers
Association). The process of creating a strategic plan is intended to: 1) build multi jurisdictional consensus
around a unified greenway effort; 2) illustrate how greenways can coexist with various land uses; and 3) strategize
site specific tools and implementation steps necessary for greenway protection. The plan will focus on a broad
(1 -3 miles wide) band of land along the Mississippi River including the communities of Hastings, Rosemount,
Marshan and Ravenna.
If the City of Rosemount would become a partner in the grant, we would be expected to provide a funding
match of $5,000.00, contribute $2,200.00 of in -kind services and host one or more of the
workshops /meetings that may be planned for the City of Rosemount as part of the workplan for this project.
RECOMMENDED ACTION: MOTION to adopt A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE METRO
GREENWAY PLANNING GRANT - MISSISIPPI RIVER GREENWAY STRATEGIC PLAN.
CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
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CITY OF ROSEMOUNT
DAKOTA COUNTY, MINNESOTA
RESOLUTION 2000 —
A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THE METRO GREENWAYS
PLANNING GRANT - MISSISSIPPI RIVER GREENWAY
STRATEGIC PLAN
WHEREAS, The City of Hastings has prepared a grant application to receive funding for a
strategic plan to create a multi jurisdictional implementation strategy proposed for greenways in
Hastings, Rosemount, Marshan and Ravenna.
WHEREAS, the plan would build multi jurisdictional, public consensus and support around a
unified greenway effort.
WHEREAS, the City of Rosemount will provide $5000.00 of the required match contingent upon
solicitations from local interested benefactors, $2,200.00 of in -kind services and host one or more of
the workshops /meetings that may be planned for the City of Rosemount as part of the workplan for
this project.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the City Council of the City of Rosemount
supports and encourages the Metro Greenways Planning Grant — Mississippi River Greenway
Strategic Plan.
ADOPTED this 15 of February, 2000.
Cathy Busho, Mayor
ATTEST:
Linda Jentink, City Clerk
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