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Three Rivers Park District and other Met Council partner park agencies

Postby Anondson » September 7th, 2018, 8:12 pm

I came across a page for the Three Rivers Park District 2040 System Plan.

https://www.letstalkthreerivers.org/system-plan

It has a survey about how you use it and a bit about your hopes for the parks and trails.

But I love maps and there were some in the “Benchmark Inventories” off to the lower right on the page. Here are some I screenshotted.

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I love this one because it shows the expected development with the Three Rivers system of trails and parks. The 2030+ map fascinated me with the trail expansion!

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Re: Three Rivers Park District and other Met Council partner park agencies

Postby Anondson » September 7th, 2018, 8:14 pm

Here we three maps of underserved demographics overlaid with the Three Rivers system.

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Re: Three Rivers Park District and other Met Council partner park agencies

Postby Anondson » September 7th, 2018, 8:20 pm

Here is a useful way of dividing the Three Rivers system by community. This map measures the amount of programming at the parks compared to where the people live.
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If you don’t lump western Bloomington (with the Highland park and reserve) with the Tier 1 I bet the amount underserved plummets even further.

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Re: Three Rivers Park District and other Met Council partner park agencies

Postby Multimodal » September 7th, 2018, 11:30 pm

Is that a trail along the Dan Patch Line? That would be welcome.

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Re: Three Rivers Park District and other Met Council partner park agencies

Postby Anondson » September 8th, 2018, 7:39 am

Those dotted lines represent “search trails” which I believe means they are still hoping to acquire as parcels are sold or redeveloped. But it does follow the CP Rail/Dan Patch route. It shows up in Hennepin County future trail maps too.

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Re: Three Rivers Park District and other Met Council partner park agencies

Postby Anondson » September 8th, 2018, 7:47 am

My fantasy of switching Meadowbrook Golf Course into a larger regional park for the inner ring suburbs (and merging it with the Minnehaha Greenway) ...

https://www.tcdailyplanet.net/envisioni ... ional-park

... would seem to make it a Three Rivers regional park that would increase regional park access for low incomes and racial minority demographics. As well as be very near by two SWLRT stations for high frequency transit access.

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Re: Three Rivers Park District and other Met Council partner park agencies

Postby Multimodal » September 8th, 2018, 8:21 am

That would be fantastic.

A few additional things:

1. The strip of land (just one block deep) in the park along Excelsior Blvd. could be zoned mixed use, to allow multifamily housing on top of retail/eating/services businesses, to make the area dynamic and slow traffic on Excelsior. By limiting development to this strip, it leaves open space and might minimize any concern by both Hopkins (Interlachen Park neighborhood) and Edina (Rolling Green neighborhood) about development encroaching on their neighborhoods.

2. After expanding the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District greenway trail through the new park, it could continue on-street (or adjacent to a narrowed street) on 44th St. east to Browndale Ave. then south towards Arden Park, Pamela Park, and then on to Rosland Park (over or under Hwy 62 Crosstown), Cornelia Park, and ultimately to the new Fred Richards Park.


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