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use. There was no Metro staff report prepared for this meeting. It was tabled to their January 22nd meeting at which time a Metro staff representative will be present. Staff will monitor the progress and expects to attend that meeting. LEGISLATIVE - Present at the January 8th "cities meeting" meeting were Senator Gen Olson and Representative Steve Smith. Senator Olson indicated she was generally opposed to supporting an independent taxing authority for a non-elected body. Both Legislators requested that they be kept apprised of developments. While LMCD had previously indicated not going forward with statutory proposals for 2-3 years» there was some indication that there may be some interest in 1991. Changes in the Governor and DNR Commissioner may present some new opportunities. Issue 12 - As noted in Attachment A the City has been working to determine its appropriate direction once the matter as to what LMCD would do has been settled. It appears appropriate to continue separately and as such Attachment 3 represents a possible work plan for developing this. In the shoreland regulations the City can take one of two tacts. These are as follows: A. Amending the Zoning Districts - This tact would have the City specifically changing its zoning districts as to boundaries around Lake f!innetonka and Long Lake if not all of those go back 1,000 feet from the lake and additionally establishing such lake use districts around each of the other lakes, where they currently did not exist. In addition each of the districts would have regulations pertinent to it. Because of the substantial nature of these district realignments and individual notice together with the boundary changes this approach may prove very burdensome and raise substantial opposition based on if nothing else the fear of the unknown than if an alternat'. route were chosen. B. Lake Use Overlay District - This would be se^, up as either an overlay district similar to the City ’s wetland flood plain ordinance and would apply to all zoning districts 1,000 feet back and would take from each of the zoning districts the features appropriate for the overlay district with differences being by the classification of the lake and/or other water bodies, such as Lovg Lake Creek. (An alternative to this approach thut would accomplish a similar result would be as a part of all applicable zoning districts that fall within 1000 feet.) These zoning changes would only necessitate general consideration and would not be property specific as option #A. For the most part it is anticipated that around Minnetorka and Long Lake there would not be substantial change but the impact