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m t r r.. r r' Lake Minnetonka Conservation District LAKE ACCESS TASK FORCE REPORT OF DATA GATHERING SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING OF AUGUST 12, 1992 PRESENT:Chair Jim Grathwol, Excelsior (LMCD); Scott Carlson, Minnetrista (LMCO): JoEllen Hurr, Orono (LMCD); Gordon Kimball, Mike Markell, and Martha Reger, DNR; Gabriel Jabbour, Orono; Bev Blomberg, Maxwell Bay; Dave Dotzenroth, Orono citizen; Gary Larson, F.A.I.R.; and Gene Strommen, LMCD. On April 15, 1992 Gene Strommen, LMCD, and Martha Reger, MN DNR, Inventoried car/trailer (C/T) parking available or potentially available by interviewing each of the lA cities on Lake Minnetonka. Excelsior, Greenwood, Minnetonka Beach, Shorewood, Tonka Bay, Victoria and Woodland have no public boat launch access. Other forms of access are not included in this report. On July 15, 1992 Gene Strommen, LMCD, and John Llnne, LMCD intern, reported on a survey of street parking available or potentially available for C/T parking within 2000' of public boat launch sites. The 1983 Lake Minnetonka Task Force identified a maximum of 1172 C/T parking spaces available at Lake Minnetonka. Preliminary staff reports to the committee identified 845 C/T parking spaces available within 2000' of existing public launch ramps. The committee and staff edited the reports submitted, reducing the total to 755 consistently available C/T parking spaces in lots and on streets. Car parking available today In parking lots meeting all proposed standards totals 148. Currently available parking, in addition, is 300 C/T parking spaces, but these do not all meet all criteria. Completion of development of additions now planned will add 88 C/T parking places. Information collected suggests an additional 219 C/T parking spaces can be made available provided agreements can be arrived at, to make the parking both open and long term. To Improve the quality of C/T parking, support is required by the Task Force, Interested government agencies, and by the participating public. The committee did not include acquisition of new boat launch sites in this report. No effort was made at this point to determine whether or not the parking spaces meet standards of acceptability. The Intent was to recommend further review to assure acceptability by encouraging governing authorities to provide needed ownership or formal agreements. Some sites Included are not presently built but are to be developed, some sites counted may be closed before or at the time others are developed. Quality of available C/T parking varies greatly. No effort is made to describe the quality of the parking at this time. The next meeting was set for Wednesday, September 9, 1992, 7:30 p.m., at Room 135 in the Norwest Bank Building, Wayzata. 8-26-92