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IFebruary 7, 1990 s. PUBLIC SAFETY The major Public Safety objective is to increase the level of the Water Patrol. Other Public Safety objectives seek to maintain the high quality of the Water Patrol, emphasize boating education and safety, improve noise enforcement, improve coordination and cooperation between the Water Patrol and other law enforcement agencies around t'^a lake, and obtaining an open radio frequency for all 1 ce-oriented law enforcement agencies. Without increase law enforcement presence, the recreation management objectives .argely will be unattainable. Public safety objectives are twofold: 1) continue to provide for a safe recreational experience on the lake, and 2) maintain the quality of the recreational experience. To accomplish this, emphasis is placed on boater education, providing law enforcement agencies better enforcement tools and increased patrols. Patrols are to be increased more for assuring a quality recreational experience than for improved public safety. Increased patrols are sought to provide more visibility, better compliance with rules and regulations, but particularly to enforce wake and noise regulations. The purpose is not to write more citations, but to improve observance of safe boating practices. SHORELAND PROTECTION The ultimate objective ^ i the Shoreland Management Plan and the On-Shore Facilities Plan is to improve use of the lakeshore, while protecting the lake from the adverse effects of development and re-development. Individual cities and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District are the primary source of enforcement for these regulations through a new Shoreland Management Ordinance and the Watershed District's 509 Plan. The role of the LMCD is limited to coordination, oversight, and review. The District's primary recourse will be through the DNR. The Shoreland Management Plan establishes minimum "Standards and Criteria" for a shoreland management ordinance to be adopted by the cities. The standards and criteria supplant the DNR's statewide standards and criteria. This will produce a consistent set of rules and regulations, to be implemented by the individuals cities, which protect the lake from the most adverse effects of development and re-development along the shoreline. Individual cities are encouraged to be even more restrictive than the minimum standards and criteria. Other management objectives include encouraging communities to restrict building heights throughout their entire jurisdiction. The LMCD also will seek agreements with individual cities to review building height variances and all variances for riparian parcels in the communities. The review and comment authority will be sought as the LMCD adds the appropriate staff with the capability to complete timely reviews. The On-Shore Facilities Plan emphasizes growth of shore-based recreation rather than increased boating use of the lake. Consistent with the LMCD recreation policy first adopted in 1072, the LMCD shall take an active role in the planning of any shoreline recreational facility of potential regional significance, maintain its policy of not owning or operating parks, seek regional funding for parks serving regional populations, encourage coordinated