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021998pkVisioningSessionVisioning Session City of Shorewood February 19, 1998 Parks and Trails AGENDA 7:00 p.m. Registration 7:10 p.m. Welcome/Introduction Dan Puzak Park Commission Chair 7:15 p.m. Process/Purpose/Background Mark Koegler Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. • 7:25 p.m. 1. Map Exercise - "Favorite Place" Large Group 7:35 p.m. 2. Definition Exercise - "What is this place ?" Large Group 7:55 p.m. 3. Visioning Exercise - "What does this place want to be ?" Small Groups 8:35 p.m. 4. Characteristics Exercise - "The importance of..." Small Groups 9:15 p.m. Questions, Comments and Summary 9:30 p.m. Adjourn Hoisington Koegler Group Inc. • SHOREWOOD "What Do We Want Our Community to Be and What is the Role of Parks and Trails ?" SUMMARY VISIONING SESSION February 19, IM INTRODUCTION The Shorewood Parks and Trails Visioning Session was held at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. February 19, 1998 at the Southshore Senior Center. Approximately 40 residents, landowners and interested people participated in the Visioning Session. Participants arranged themselves into 6 small groups. The process involved both individual participation as well as small and large group participation. OPENING EXERCISE -- "Favorite Place" The initial exercise asked participants to identify their favorite place in Shorewood. As individuals, they noted their response on separate cards then placed a colored dot on a map of Shorewood. The following is a tabulation of their responses. Gathering Places • • Christmas Lake (2) • Silverwood Park (4) • Crescent Beach (1) American Legion (2) LRT Trails (12) Freeman Park (8) Catacart Park (1) DEFE EXERCISE- "What is this place ?" The following questions were asked of the participants: What is this place? What characteristics define Shorewood? What makes Shorewood , Shorewood "? The following verbatim =Pon= were recorded on a flip chart from any and all that offered them: • Natural features and environment (trees, stores, protected wetlands) • Safe community • Residential character • Neighborhoods are small — good feel • Mix of country and city • Historical roots to lake • Geographic boundary meanders • No central gathering place • Large lot size (open space) • Insulated from Metro Area + Limited developable land • + Reliance on neighboring communities Lack of business community Shorewood Vision Session Summary Page 1 I a • Proximity and access to regional recreation resources • Slow pace to community • Growing pains with recent development • Growth is occurring around all sides of city • Lack of identity — leftovers from lake communities • No sidewalks VISIONING EXERCISE — What does this place want to be? I;n the Visioning Exercise the small groups were asked to identify, both individually and as a group, what characteristics comprise a vision :for the future community of Shorewood? Each small group discussed their visions, arrived at five conclusions and presented their characteristics at the `Vision Wall" on half sheets of paper. Once on the wall, the characteristics were placed into groups of common characteristics. These groupings are listed below with a bulleted list of characteristics taken verbatim from the "Vision Wall." PARKS AND TRA,IJS Natural Resources • Buried utilities • Trees • Underground utilities Park bnprovements • Expand Reeman to Hwy 7 and east • Pocket parks (more in the neighborhoods) Trails and Accessibili • Co- existence of traffic and people • "Welcome" to bikes and walking • Street trails for access to LRT • Get in front of planning around LRT • More and safer trails Diverse Activities • Recreationally diverse opportunities • Recreation center with pools • More ice (indoors and outdoors) • Keep open space, wetlands, woods, etc. • Dark skies - clear • Progress without compromising country • Improve the major thorough -fare (i.e. Smithtown, Eureka) • Pedestrian accessibility to community resources (school, park, lake) (sidewalks and trails) • More activities for youth (13 -18) • Community youthirecreational center Golf Course • Subway under LRT — to keep trail on top • To municipal golf course • Shorewood Vision Session Summary Page 2 U Public Art and Gardens • Gardens in parks (flowers, veggies intergenerational project) • Public DLTlgardens OTHERS • Fire -pit in backyard (still legal) • Mixed housing (affordable and senior) • Life cycle housing • Tax stability • Merge with Excelsior (Tonka Bay ?) • Look at Shorewood as part of Metro area CHARACTERISTICS EXERCISE — What characterirscs wilt be the most important in realizing our collective vision for Shorewood? The objective of the characteristics exercise was to determine the importance of the characteristics that were identified. The characteristics identified at the visioning exercise were added to a list of characteristics assembled from previous discussions. Each of the small groups was asked to agree upon a ranking for each characteristic on the chart. Once a group had agreed on the ranking, one member from the group placed a dot on each characteristic in the box that correlates with the groups ranking. The chart summarizes the rankings of each group. Notes: Because several groups identified similar characteristics that were previously identified, there may be some redundancy in the chart. Some groups did not vote on all characteristics and some groups may have voted twice on some characteristics; therefore, not every characteristic will have an equal amount of votes. The shaded characteristics are those that appear to be the most important characteristics as determined by the group. 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