DEPARTMENT: Parks
FILE TYPE: Consent Action
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Authorization To Accept Donation Of Regional Greenway Trail Easement From Xcel Energy And Execute Encroachment Agreement With Xcel Energy For Veterans Memorial Greenway Phase II, County Project P00147
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PURPOSE/ACTION REQUESTED
Authorize acceptance of a donated 239,990 square-foot regional trail easements (Easements) from Xcel Energy and authorize a construction encroachment agreement for the encroachment of private utilities easements for greenway trail construction for County Project (CP) P00147 in Inver Grove Heights.
SUMMARY
To enrich lives by providing high-quality recreation and education opportunities in harmony with natural resource preservation and stewardship, Dakota County Parks is proceeding with the Veterans Memorial Greenway.
The Veterans Memorial Greenway is a proposed regional trail and open-space corridor that will provide a link between Lebanon Hills Regional Park and the Mississippi River in central Dakota County. The five-mile corridor stretches east and west within Eagan and Inver Grove Heights, which follows the adopted Rich Valley Greenway master plan corridor. The Veterans Memorial Greenway will provide neighborhood access points connecting single-family residential neighborhoods, local park connections, and rural and undeveloped open space (Attachment: Project Location).
A portion of the Greenway will be constructed over a 150' Xcel Energy existing private utility easement within the City of Inver Grove Heights Southern Lakes Park and fee title property which requires a roughly 100' new regional trail easement. Due to federal funding requirements, a framework for the encroachment agreement and new Easements must be in place prior to construction activities in the spring of 2025.
The proposed Easement is legally described in Attachment: Legal Description of Regional Trail Easement and generally depicted in Attachment: General Depiction of Regional Trail Easement on the Nort...
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