Item 5C. Medicine Lake Regional Trail Cooperative Agreement with the City of Plymouth
Superintendent's Recommendation:
MOTION TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF PLYMOUTH ESTABLISHING THE PROPERTY RIGHTS, OWNERSHIP, DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION, OPERATIONS, AND MAINTENANCE RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE MEDICINE LAKE REGIONAL TRAIL, CONVEYING ABOUT 5.75 ACRES TO THE CITY, AND ESTABLISHING A SHARED TRAILHEAD ALONG CHESHIRE PARKWAY.
Prepared By: Kelly Grissman, Director of Planning
Background:
Over the last five years, Three Rivers and the City of Plymouth have been working in partnership to establish or update regional trail agreements for trail segments within the City and to convey property rights between the two parties to best support each agencies' parks and trails goals. Luce Line Regional Trail and Bassett Creek Regional Trail Cooperative Agreements were recently completed, and Eagle Lake Regional Trail Cooperative Agreement is anticipated to occur later this year.
At this time, staff have collaborated on a draft Medicine Lake Regional Trail Cooperative Agreement (See Attached: Medicine Lake Regional Trail Cooperative Agreement) which would accomplish the following items if approved:
- Establishes typical regional trail property rights, ownership, design, construction, ownership, and maintenance responsibilities which are generally consistent with regional trail agreements with the City and other municipalities.
- Conveys missing easements and limited use permits from the City to the Park District for purposes of forming a continuous and contiguous trail corridor.
- Cancels previous agreements or portions of previous agreements spanning several decades which are no longer applicable or are now covered by the new cooperative agreement.
- Conveys trail responsibilities from the City to Three Rivers for the locally owned/operated trail segment along Northwest Boulevard/CSAH 61 following planned reconstruction in 2027 and establishes cost participation for associated design and construction from the City of up to $300,000 in lieu of providing land which Three Rivers no longer needs from a previous land exchange agreement.
- Conveys about 5.75 acres of regional trail land no longer needed to complete the Medicine Lake Regional Trail corridor (PID 04118221140003, appraised at $85,000 - see exhibit F of the Medicine Lake Regional Trail Cooperative Agreement) and $50,000 from Three Rivers to the City in exchange for use of the City's existing Cheshire Parkway trailhead to support the Medicine Lake Regional Trail, a city commitment to construct a bathroom facility with potable water at the trailhead by 2030, and to convey an easement for regional trail signage to Three Rivers.
If approved by the Board, the agreement will be considered by the Plymouth City Council on July 22.
Relationship to the System Plan:
The Request for Action supports the following goal(s) of the System Plan:
Goal 1: You Belong Here
Goal 2: Parks Matter
Goal 3: Lead by Example
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