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--., Harper Lake and went across McCaslin, I suppose that would be the best way. Franklin: This has been a subject of considerable discussion here at the staff level. My perspective, which is a historic perspective, is that during the course of the review of the subdivision, the staff for whatever reason did not bring up the issue of access through the subdivision to the Mesa. It is pure conjecture as to why, but we know for a fact that there is other access outside the subdivision. As to the question of need, we have discussed this quite a bit. If the easement has not been proved out or never been open to the public as an access way, the people who wanted to access the Mesa have gone north or somehow south to get across the ditch into the Mesa. As it stands, other means are used to access the Mesa. Sackett: If they go north they park in Ohmeda's parking lot? Franklin: There are some casual, unmarked, unpaved and undeveloped parking at the end of old 80th which I have used to park a car. South might raise a question of trespassing because it is possible to access through Ohmeda's parking lot. Carnival: Surely, the Parks Master Plan Task Force looked at the overall parks and trail master plan. How does this play into it? Baysinger: The overall priority is to connect existing trails and paths that are within the City and then go into soft surface and open space trails. This will probably be a secondary consideration in the trails. Getting all the hard surface ones connected would come well before that. As you have seen in the budget, what we are looking at for the allocation in 1992 is just partially completing hard surface. Carnival: Does it not make some sense to do exactly what Mr. Sackett is suggesting? The trails seem to end at Harper Lake and that would be a natural transition from Harper Lake across into the open space on the Mesa rather than trying to track down through the Enclave 15 --