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r Daniel and Sharon Regan 3410 Northshore Drive Orono, MN 55391 Edvard Callahan Mayor of Orono. PO Box 66 Crystal Bay, MN 55323 August 1, 1994 Can we do anything about the people trespassing on our property and using our docks as public landings !!!i The honeoimers along Northshore drive continue to have problems with the overflow parking from the North Arm launch ramp. That stretch of highway 51 has been designated as "suitable trailer parking" in order to satisfy the DNR's demand for 700 parking places. According to the DNR's o%m definition, suitable parking must be within 1500 feet of the ramp. Beyond that distance it is not convenient for boater's to park their trailers and return to the ramp. It is easier to park the trailer and have the boat pick them up from our docks. When they leave the lake they drop them off on our docks. In most cases this is not a problem. Most of the time the boaters are very careful and do not do any damage. But sometimes they are not careful, they damage our docks or boats, they steal things or throw things into the lake. Our docks are not designed for this additional traffic and even the careful boaters will shorten the useful lives of the docks. They ignore our NO TRESPASSING signs. If wo stop them they act stupid and remark that they didn't see the sign or didn't know the dock was private. In some cases they more or less dare us to do something. If they get angry they can always come back to damage our property. We are in a NO WIN situation. All we can do is sit back, ignore the problem and hope the trespassers don't damage our property. That doesn't seem like an equitable solution, we pay the high property taxes to be on THE LAKE are we also required to provide a public dock m • I just think that if people are encouraged by the DNR to use the lake and are also encouraged to park along Northshore drive that someone should be responsible for protecting our rights to private property.