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Special Council Meeting 2-24-03 Page 15 ? Council President Buckholtz said volunteer Rec Board was talking about that as just being an optimum. If there was sledding back there, and be some kind of a"Squire's Castle" kind of thing.... Mr. Marrie said well I just threw that out before like was there a possibility to use it after Bill brought up the, you know, the point---- Mayor Rinker said well I think that we should be able to devise language that says we'll, you know, give it our best effort. Mrs. Mills said I think that's what we should---- Mr. Marrie said I think thaYs what we should go with then. Mrs. Cinco said sure. Mayor Rinker said the other thing that I want to point out again. Issue One is different from really any of the other; well it's like any other federal. or state-funded program, it has strings attached. The strings that we attach to it are much as what, we did for the wetlands, with Corridor-once you dedicate land, it's not just for public use, it's to a specific criteria of that public use. And in every one of these Issue one projects we are committing to leave this land as parkland or if it's stream enhancement to enhance the streambed. And that is the third. The other application we have was initially presented last Fall as an Issue Two application, which is all part of this rather complex series ? of improvements and enhancements to the Upper 40 stream largely. I mean the Metroparks is inordinately interested in this because there is a wetland area, an established wetland area, down in the Chagrin--right at grade with the Chagrin River. Just about any organization that is affiliated with that river is supremely interested in that. And that orie ---that is adjacent to a wooded area that is similarly state-sanctioned as something very special and there's a third nature preserve, part of the Metroparks that also is designated-so it's a highly sensitive ecology there and I can tell you, the Metroparks is very concerned about that. That's at the very bottom of the drainage. As you move upstream with the Metroparks is one that the Metroparks has used since the 70's, is clean up all the storm damage that's gone through there, you know, if you walked up on the old road that used to run off River Road, I mean off Wilson Mills just before River. If you walk back up in there, it is just really totally bored out, below the Upper 40 houses. They want to get in culverts back in there which we would agree to do, stormwater stuff, and then we want to rebuild the trails so that's the intermediate section. We leapfrog over Peirce and Merkel and anyone who wants to revisit that history, I'll sit down with you one time, but I won't worry about that tonight. Then as you head westerly, getting upstream, there are other sections; we are looking at another property that fronts on S.O.M. which was the old Myotte property, will wrap around, conceivably even the Nassieri property (and we talked about this before with Nassieri) there may be some potential that the back part of that property could also be used in some fashion with either detention or enhancement. Because we have been under the gun with Metroparks for years now to take charge and clean up the Upper 40 so that it doesn't continue to be a downwater-downstream hazard. So all of the application that we have, the third item is Upper 40, is covering virtually the length and breadth of it-and that's the most ambitious-that's viriually a million dollars in grant that we are looking for. But we suspect that it's positioned, and of all of them that's the one that's going to get the most ' attention, I think. I think Falkner would be the second one, Zako would be third in line. Zako, to say that he was involved in stream wouldn't be a total stretch, but as far as parkland area, and