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CITY OF ORONO <br />RESPONSE TO LMCD <br />LONG TERM MANAGERIAL PLAN m <br />A. The City of Orono opposoa the LMCD plan as 1) falling to <br />focus on the purposes for which the LMCD was formed; 2) <br />being inadequate in its concerns for environmental <br />protection and conservation of the lake as a finite natural <br />resource; 3) misdirected in focusing upon promoting and <br />encouraging increased boat densities and additional access <br />points; 4) unrealistically seeking to remove land use <br />regulations from local control; 5) seeking to raise taxes, <br />and lessen local control over them; 6) dilute or eliminate <br />local control over the LMCD and surrender it to state and <br />county agencies. <br />1. Tho LMCD was created to be the agency iimnediately <br />concerned with the protection of the lake, as a <br />natural resource, from environmental deterioration <br />including aesthetic deterioration, and the preventing <br />of pollution. This plan focuses on increasing <br />recreational activities, rectifying past Inequities in <br />access growth and intends to implimant environmental <br />protection only after it accomplishes these goals. <br />2. Tho LMCD plan is inadequate in its concerns for <br />conservation because it fails to recognize; <br />a. That existing usage of the lake has already <br />reached the average density of 10 acres per boat <br />established by the DNR and other agencies (8 <br />usable acres per boat); <br />b. That peak density is nearly twice that; <br />c. That planned \ >r increases, e.g. Hennepin County <br />Park at 16? "0 new boats - Minnetonka Boat works <br />42-48 new bou.s, etc., plus unplanned others will <br />bring tho average density to between 7 usable <br />acres and 6 usable acres per boat by 1991 if it <br />is not there now; <br />d* That the reports of current users indicate <br />serious and dangerous conditions of near missaes, <br />dangerous acts of intoxicated boaters, high <br />wakes, ignoring of navigational rules, etc.; <br />e. The numerical majority of the bays are already <br />drastically overused (Tables 6 and 8); <br />f. That there are indicators sailing may be being <br />crowded off tho lake, etc.;