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Memorandum:
To: Mayor, Scandia City Council
From: Adam Hawkinson, Director of Public Works
Date: August 15th 2017
SUBJECT: Revised Landscape Plan for Veterans Memorial
Dave Wilson and Tom Triplett, on behalf of the Veterans Memorial Committee, submitted a revised
landscape plan for the area between the Veteran Memorial and the parking lot for review by the Parks
& Recreation Committee at the August 7, 2017 meeting. The plan was designed by Abrahamson Nursery
and incorporates prairie dropseed, interspersed with butterfly weed as the border plant material in
place of the earlier proposed turf grass area. This proposal was in keeping with the Lilleskogen Park
Restoration Plan for the entrance to the park with specifies low height plants in a roughly 10' border
along the parking lot. The two proposed species are identified in the park plan as low height plants for
this location.
The Parks and Recreation Committee recommended Council approval of the plan with the stipulation
that at least 10 common milkweed plants be incorporated into the planting so it could be deemed as a
Monarch way station.
Under the terms of the agreement between the City and the Committee for the Veterans Memorial, the
City is responsible maintaining the area outside of the perimeter of the Veterans Memorial. It is staff's
recommendation that common milkweed not be introduced near the Veteran's Memorial site. While
there are significant benefits from milkweed as a food source for monarch butterflies, it is not in the list
of plant materials in the Lilleskogen Park Restoration Plan for the areas adjoining the parking lots. The
plan calls for low height plants along the parking lot whereas common milkweed can grow to nearly 5' in
height. Common milkweed is also extremely invasive moving through rhizomes underground and is a
prolific seeder. Staff believes it is in the best interest of the City that we minimize the need for additional
maintenance of this area.
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From: Tom Triplett <tom@triplettconsulting.com>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 9:16 AM
To: j.negus@ci.scandia.mn.us
Cc: Dave Wilson
Subject: PRC
Hello Judi. Could you forward this to the committee members for tonite? And perhaps another copy of the
Abrahamsons drawing that was shared at the last meeting? Thx.
Per the note below, the Veterans Memorial Committee proposes that a low -height planting from the original plan for
Lilleskogen — prairie dropseed — replace the grass "lawn" contained in the June, 2017 drawing from Abrahamsons. We'd
like to give Abrahamsons the authority to add accent plantings from the list such as butterfly weed in that same area.
We also propose the elimination of the shade tree that is closest to the parking lot and possibly one other tree. We can
discuss this tonite. Thank you.
Tom Triplett
318 Stillwater Av W
Stillwater MN 55082
651-222-0239
www.triplettconsulting.com
From: Dave Wilson [mailto:dwilson651@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 1, 2017 12:56 PM
To: Terry Gorham
Cc: Neil Soltis; Adam Hawkinson; Tom Triplett; Dan Sandager
Subject: Re: Landscaping
Terry,
Thanks for your follow up on this. We are going with what Neil came up with. This is a good recommendation
that seems to meet all of the interests and complies with the park plant design. Prairie dropseed would cover the
area in front of and to the side of the memorial patio. Butterfly weed would also be used to accent the
area. The tree located in the front area will not be used.
I like this and hope that all other parties will agree so we can move on. This provides a good look for the
memorial and park entrance and complies with the park plan for plantings. These plants were taken right off of
the park drawing and fit the area that they were called for. These are also low maintenance so another plus.
Here is the picture again that Neil provided. It's a good representation of the finished look.
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