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Marina License Memo May 18, 1993 Pace 4 E. Lakeside Marina The Council needs to take a definite position regarding on-Iand storage ot boats for lake use. This type of activity may include: • drystack in racks, marina launches on demand • customer’s boat stored on trailer, customer launches • customer’s boat stored on trailer, marina launches on demand • "boat club" use, (boat owned by marina or others, launched/stored on land as demand requires) Resolution No. 938 adopted by the City Council in 1978 refuses to grant increased density to any commercial marina. It defines a number of reasons why an increase in boat density is detrimental to the lake environment, and to the health, safety and welfare of lake users as well as adjacent property owners. The licensing code after its revision in January still contains two business use standards, reading as follows: "Business Use Standards. All business use applications shall provide information showing compliance with the following standards: A. The proposed number of boat slips on the land and on the water and boat buoys shall not adversely affect the public safety, health and welfare or infringe on the public right to use the water, or unreasonably restrict the rights of other property owners to store boats on or adjacent to the same area." Staff would interpret that applying the findings of Resolution No. 93>* to this business use standard would result in a City finding that die application is not in compliance, and staff would conclude that this is a code basis for denial of on- land slips absent an equivalent reduction in the number of water slips. The LMCD approaches the density issue in a somewhat more objective manner by defining that a facility can have 1 "boat storage unit" per 50 ’ of shoreline, or I bKiat per 10* undei a Special Density License. Because Lakeside has historically had 77 slips yielding a density of 1 slip per 4’. they qualify for no further density increases, and LMCD is denying them the ability to store boats on land for lake use. Notwithstanding Council’s possible reluctance to take a position for or against LMCD’s action, staff must conclude that it is in the best interest of the City and consistent with Resolution No. 938 and our current licensing code, that any on- land storage for lake use for lakeside Marina should be neither sanctioned nor