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frontage, water quality effects, aesthetic intrusions <br />and minimizes effects on local and neighborhood <br />traffic flow. <br />C.DNR introduces an Offer of Option to Purchase Land on <br />Maxwell Bay for a Public Access, November, 1991. <br />1 Orono City Council learns November 9, 1991 of DNR <br />access option on Maxwell Bay, raises many questions. <br />2.LMCD Water Structures Committee learns from LMCD <br />staff November 14, 1991 of DNR access option. <br />Committee gives support to the possible acquisition, <br />recommends a subcommittee of residents and city <br />officials to work with DNR. <br />3.LMCD Board reviews Water Structures Committee <br />recommendation December 4, 1991. Board hears <br />testimony from Orono official and lakeshore residents <br />contesting the committee support of an access <br />acquisition without first receiving response of Orono <br />city/residents. LMCD Board agrees, appointing a <br />study committee to include affected parties and <br />public agencies. <br />4.The MN DNR, in response to communications from Orono <br />and LMCD officials and interested persons, offers <br />proposals January 9 and 16, 1992, outlining how DNR <br />would handle its option to purchase an access site on <br />Maxwell Bay, City of Orono. DNP supports the LMCD <br />being the lead agency, providing the framework for <br />completing the proposal. DNR finds this <br />consistent with LMCD’s role as coordinator of public <br />access issues as described in the LMCD Management <br />Plan. This proposal is to begin the process or <br />cooperative efforts to reach goals for providing <br />reliable public access to Lake Minnetonka while <br />meeting the needs and concerns of the communities and <br />citizens of the Lake Minnetonka area. <br />5. <br />a. <br />b. <br />LMCD Board approves the DNR January 16 proposal #2 at <br />its January 22 board meeting. Proposal actions <br />inc1udei ^DNR to exercise its option to purchase property <br />on Maxwell Bay as identified November, 1992. <br />A cooperative effort will be undertaken <br />between the City of Orono and the LMCD with the <br />DNR to study the purchase and development <br />feasibility of sites from Gayle s Marina to the <br />DNR’s Maxwell Bay site. <br />* Examine a combination of uses ® ^ <br />site to include shore fishing, fishing pier, <br />open space and other appropriate uses.