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m <br />t. <br />L...S. <br />TO: <br />FROM: <br />DATE: <br />Mayor and City Council <br />Ron Moorse, City Administrator <br />March 18, 1993 <br />SUBJECT: Concerns From Neighbors Regarding Lasher Landing Public <br />Access on North Shore Drive <br />The attached memo from John Gerhardson outlines the concerns of the <br />neighbors adjacent to the Lasher Landing access located between <br />2605 and 2655 North Shore Drive, and outlines options for <br />add'-essing those concerns ranging from restricting the use of the <br />access, to vacating the access. <br />The following is a discussion of several of the options. <br />1. <br />2. <br />3 . <br />Restrict the use of the access through installation of a gate. <br />The City restricts access at a number of similar sites through <br />the use of a gate. At some accesses the gate is closed in the <br />winter and open in the summer. At others it is open in the <br />winter and closed in the summer. Currently the Lasher Landing <br />access is not used in the summer. It is overgrown with <br />vegetation and is not recognized as an access. The access is <br />used in the winter by people putting their ice houses on the <br />lake. The installation of a gate that would be open in he <br />winter and closed in the summer would give the message of a <br />restricted access but would allow open access in the winter. <br />This option may not fully- address the concerns of the <br />neighbors regarding disruptive persons who make use of the <br />access. <br />Develop a method of further restricting access. The group who <br />currently most use the access are those with ice houses on the <br />lake. It may be possible to develop a system that includes a <br />locked gate year-around that would restrict vehicular access <br />yet allow pedestrian access. Those with ice houses could be <br />accommodated by a permit system that provides them with a key <br />to the gate during the winter season. This alternative would <br />preser'/e the public access use for pedestrians and would <br />provide public access for those with ice houses through the <br />permit system. Access would be restricted for all other <br />vehicular uses. Although this option is more restrictive it <br />does more fully address the concerns of the neighbors while <br />preserving the landing as a public access. <br />Vacate the public access. Although the option of vacating the <br />access would fully address the concerns of the neighbors it <br />would be contrary to the City's policy of preserving existing <br />public accesses*. The City generally addresses concerns <br />regarding these types of accesses by placing restrictions on <br />the use of the access rather than vacating the access. <br />I <br />.1.