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M PHONE NO. STATE OF Nl M d S © ^DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES •waters, 1200 WARNER ROAD, ST. PAUL, MN 55106 (612) 772-7916 FILE NO October 30, 1992 The Honorable Barbara Peterson Mayor, City of Orono P.O. Box 164 Crystal Bay, MN 55323 Dear Mayor Peterson: REVIEW AND COMMENT ON CITY OF GREENWOOD'S REQUEST FOR FLEXIBILITY FROM STATE OF MINNESOTA'S SHORELAND MANAGEMENT STANDARDS required by the statewide shoreland nanaqenent standards, the Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the City of Greenwood are hereby notifying your city of Greenwood's request for flexibility from the statewide standards as outlined below, and in the enclosure prepared by the city's consultant. In accordance with the rules, the Commissioner and the city must solicit the input and approval of other goveriunertal bodies that could be affected or impacted by the alternate controls. The city and the DNR are asking that your city provide its review and comments, if any, to either DNR or the city within 45 days of the date of this letter. If no response is received prior to then, we will assxime that your city has no concerns with the neighboring city's proposal. The City of Greenwood is requesting flexibility from the following statewide standards: 1. Building height, and 2. Impervious surface coverage. A discussion of this request has been prepared by the city attorney and is attached for you and/or your staff to review. The above requests have been presented by the city attwa.ney for review and discussion by representatives of 11 Lake Minnetonka cities who are working together as a Technical Review Committee for the purpose of reviewing and discussing individual city's flexibility requests affecting Lake Minnetonka. No problems with the city's request have been noted at any of those meetings. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY 6V=LOt't.R i d