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10/2/84 Page - 2 - 3ENTATION - LAKE PARK Councilmembers had a copy of a memo from ROVEMENTS Director of Community Services Hioco. Mr. Hioco stated that two meetings were held with staff and the public and the results of those meetings will be given in the presentation. The request was for Council's authorization to proceed with a master plan. Also Dave White, an employee of Landplan Design Group had sub- mitted a report on the lake and provided copies for Council. Mr. Hioco requested that they review this and get their comments back to him by Friday of next week so that they can be in- corporated into the master plan before the first of the year. Dennis Strah, Landplan Mr. Strah gave a slide presentation of the Design Group, Denver preliminary proposals and results of the workshops held. He also stated as a point of clarification - Dave White is a Consultant to the Landplan Design Group as an aquatic biologist. Mr. Strah stated that they were at a juncture on their design work and need to have Council review this material and the action requested would be Council's approval to proceed with the actual master plan for Lake Park. Laurie Emery was present and she was the project manager who spearheaded much of the project. Lake Park consists of .approximate .8 of an acre and historically has been used as a flood control system and it is slowly filling up. A site analysis was done documenting the area as to the size of the lake, bikeways and trails. One of Landplan's endeavors will be to revitalize the lake - to redevelop it and make it more of an aesethetic and recreational amenity. It was determined also that the lake is 3' deep in some areas, over 70% of it is less thatn 12' deep. Yearly more and more .ground is being last and consequently any kind of habitat that is involved is slowly dying off. Positive aspects are that there is marsh and some of the drainages that are coming into the lake do help to create a situation where it is not a stagnant body of water. One of the major concerns of the residents near the green- belt area was the type and quality of grasses that are currently being used. Landplan Design Group looked at the develop- ment of 3 different concepts on how to handle the lake. They propose in the initial concept that the lake ought to be deepened to a mini- mum of from 6' to 7' in order to maintain a fish habitat that might be desired.