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Parking Inventory <br />To determine the nijmber of existing and potential car/trailer <br />parking spaces capable of meeting the adopted standards, data was <br />gathered from a variety of sources and in a number of ways. Site <br />lists were provided by LMCD member cities. Site visits were made <br />and aerial photographs were used. <br />Spaces inventoried included: <br />- parking in on-site lots at existing lake access points <br />- available on-street parking <br />- off-site lots, public and nrivate <br />- future additional committed spaces <br />- potentially negotiable to 2000 feec <br />- the original inventory totaled 735 <br />The total potential car/trailer parking spaces certifiable to the <br />new standards to 2000 feet was 735. (The original inventory is in <br />the appendix.) Substantially higher numbers of car/trailers are <br />being parked in public or private areas at peak times in good <br />weather than the measured inventory has identified. <br />This report adopts a new and lower inventory in an effort to be <br />extremely conservative after consultation with Hennepin County and <br />the cities. (Inventory and Footnotes.) The revised total <br />inventory of 527 car trailer spaces represents parking that is <br />available now, or that can reasonably be made available on a stable <br />long-term basis. Approximately 440 car/trailer parking spaces are <br />currently available for free public access within 2,000 feet of <br />launch ramps. Of these, approximately 270 spaces are in public <br />access lots or are under current agreement. An additional 170 <br />spaces are in on-street parking sites dependent on agreement with <br />local authorities. Approximately 88 future spaces are either <br />committed or negotiable. This results in a total of 527 potential <br />car/trailer parking spaces that are now believed to be available or <br />planned and which meet the new parking standards. Some must still <br />be built. Agreements need to be reached. <br />The inventory also gives an indication of where the current spaces <br />are distributed and provides some direction on where to concentrate <br />on locating future spaces. <br />Public Access Agreements <br />One result of the 1986 task force was the improvement of tl^e <br />process that secures parking spaces at or near existing public <br />access sites. The Task Force continued this recommendation and <br />developed a current model agreement form. <br />The Lake Access Parking Agreement form and checklist for evaluating <br />public access parking agreements are provided in Appendix _ _.