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The addition of electricity has also allowed the addition of a high intensity anti-crime light that bums all night This light disturbs the peace and quiet of tiie neighborhood and also because there is bright light, it facilitates and encourages late night boating. When there was no electricity and lights, non-resident dock owners generally brought their boats in at the end of the day when there was still daylight to unload their boat. With the light in place they now frequenUy bring their boats in at midnight and later. The engine noise from the large boats and the talking and music is disturbing to the neighborhood given the very narrow channel the boats must go through to get to their docks. As detailed in 1984, abuse of parking privileges has been a serious and perpetual problem. The agreements and the conditional use permits call for each dock owner to have the right to park one car per slip in front of their dock on theii property. Since Cook (one of the non resident dock owners) has essentially no lake shore, his conditional use permit does not grant him the right to park a car and states that he must arrange for parking in some other location. In return for agreeing to give Dick Ogle the right to purchase his dock lot when he is done using it, Dick Ogle agreed to let Cook park on his property. Non-resident owners consistently and routinely have \iolated their parking agreements, frequently parking two or more cars per boat slip. Overflow parking has wound up on County Road 19. This created serious safety' problems both for bicyclists and walkers that use County Road 19 as a designated county bike path and for residents that need to use the areas that were designed to provide safe deceleration lanes to exit County Road 19. There were a number of near miss accidents with bicyclists and residents turning off County Road 19 using the deceleration lane that were due to non-resident dock o\vners parking cars along County Road 19. As a result of this dangerous situation, neighborhood residents, in 1999, petitioned the city to place no parking signs on County Road 19. The city and county agreed with the safety risks and put up the no parking signs. Because the non-resident dock owners could no longer park the multiple cars per dock in violation of their parking restrictions, they petitioned the city, in late 1999, to park along County Road 19. The City Council addressed the issue for a second time and once again concluded there w’as a serious safety' issue that necessitated the no parking restrictions. Once again, in March 2000, the non-resident dock owners have petitioned the city to grant e.xcess parking along County Road 19 and for the third time in less than a year the City Council will address the parking issue at the May 2000 City Council meeting. As neighbors we are very frustrated that the non-resident dock owners will not live up to the one car restriction they agreed to and that the city seems unwilling to tell the non-resident dock owners that they must comply \ ith the one car per dock agreement they made. Rental of Boat Slips It’s clear from the 1984 Orono City' memo that dock rental by non-resident owners has been a problem for many years. The memo states neighbors referred to the non-resident dock area as a marina because of the dock rentals. For the last few years there has always been at least one dock and frequently two of the non resident docks that have been rented to non-residents of the area. We have made the city aware of the rental situation. Renters create substantial problems since the neighbors have no idea who should be in the area. Renters also don’t know the rules, regulations and restrictions that affect the non- conforming dock area and therefore frequently violate the rules and restrictions creating noise, parWng and other problems.