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LAKE MINNETONKA 1993 <br />ACCESS SITE EVALUATION CRITERIA <br />The Task Force has developed evaluation criteria which <br />should be used in selecting potential new access sites for <br />fishing craft and small recreation boats. While it may be <br />impossible to meet the highest grading of each standard, the <br />following should be seriously considered and graded. Other <br />evaluation items may be considered on a site-specific basis. <br />1. <br />2. <br />3. <br />4. <br />6. <br />8 . <br />9 . <br />Relationship to residential areas — Positive and <br />negative impacts of the site on adjacent residential <br />areas, such as distaiice between a site and nearby homes, <br />screening the site from homes, noise, traffic, etc., etc. <br />Accessibility to primary highways — Potential sites near <br />major highways (State Higliways 7 and 101, County Roads 19 <br />and 15 are examples) to reduce traffic impact on <br />residential streets. Safety — on site, on water and <br />egress to both shall be graded. <br />Public use precedent — Sites which are already in public <br />ov/nership or in commercial or industrial use, or isolated <br />from other residential areas, have the least neighborhood <br />impact, and where public facilities or services have been <br />provided and accepted. ' ' ' <br />Intensity of boating use near a potential access site — <br />Sections of the lake where there is intense boating, or <br />crowding i.i channels, should be downgraded. <br />5. Cost — Property acquisition, development and maintenance <br />costs must be considered. <br />Physical development constraints — Consider positive and <br />negative impacts needed on land and in the water to make <br />the potential site usable. <br />7. Visual impacts — Positive and negative visual impacts as <br />seen from land and water. <br />Multiple use opportunities for the site — Sites that <br />could provide facilities such as shore fishing, pier <br />fishing, picnic areas, and toilets, etc., along with boat <br />access are preferred. <br />Site size -- Larger sites with off-street parking are <br />preferred. <br />10. Envirorimcntal considerations related to dredging, fill, <br />run-off control, wetlands, preservation, etc. <br />• i