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4"' South Everett Forest Preserve Trail, Final Master Plan PARKS AND September, 2015 RECREATION Park Features • Create an urban natural open space with passive trail network " and provide large areas of unstructured open space for passive enjoyment. • Provide benches and a picnic Q, , area. • Minimize disturbances to vegetation and topography and 1 utilize alignments of existing informal trails. • Locate trails an appropriate distance away from existing residential properties. Example of a neighborhood kiosk proposed for the trailhead. • The combined trail length shall be 1,600 linear feet to meet recreational mitigation requirements. • Provide a trailhead feature with a neighborhood kiosk for an improved pedestrian connection and orientation to the surrounding neighborhood. • Provide an ADA accessible trail loop with crushed rock surfacing on a flatter area of trail to provide a similar trail experience for the physically challenged. • Provide benches at visually interesting locations along the trail. • Retain existing trees along the trail alignments. • Remove invasive Himalayan blackberries at the trailhead to improve visual access from 109th Street SE. • Provide a boardwalk at the existing wetland crossing to eliminate any new wetland disturbance for a trail crossing. • Provide signs to regulate pedestrian use on trails only and to indicate daylight park hours. • Discourage access to the Interurban Trail from the South Everett Forest Preserve site with thicket forming vegetation and woody debris as naturalistic obstructions. 14:0,, Structures t H { `'#. • Kiosk , � �� • Benches • Wetland boardwalk • Trash Receptacle - .✓ Phasing 410 The plan would be implemented in one phase with the opportunity for future phases to address vegetation restoration through other grant and stewardship programs. Example of a similar wetland boardwalk in the Everett Parks system. Page 16