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- ^ <br />■•ir <br />.-PRELIfllNARY DRAFT <br />'5-29-90 ” <br />CITY OF ORONO <br />RESPONSR TO LMCD <br />LONG TERM MANAGERIAL PLAN <br />-r <br />® R'* f?\ 1? <br />A.The City of Orono opposes the LMCD plan as 1) failing 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) u?J.realistically 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 *t to state and <br />county agencies. <br />1. <br />2. <br />Tho LMCD was created to be the agency immediately <br />concerned •“*.th the protection of the lake, as a <br />natural re'uurce, 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 impliment environmental <br />protection only after it accomplishes these goals. <br />The LMCD plan is inadequate in its concerns for <br />conservation because it fails to recognize: <br />a. <br />b. <br />c • <br />d. <br />£. <br />That existing usage of the lake has alzgady <br />reached the «v^rage density of 10 acres per boat <br />established by the DNR and other agencies (8 <br />uaablo acres per boat); <br />That peak density is nearly twice that; <br />That planned for increases, e.g. Hennff.in County <br />Park at 3 68-170 new boats - Minnetonka i^oat works <br />42-48 new boats, etc., plus unplanned others will <br />bring the average density to between 7 usable <br />acres and 6 usabJo acres per boat by 1991 if it <br />is not there now; <br />That tho reports of current users indicate <br />serious and dangerous conditions of near missses, <br />dangerous acts of intoxicated boaters, high <br />wakes, ignoring of navigational rules, etc.; <br />The numerical majority of the bays are already <br />drastically overused (Tables 6 and 8); <br />That there are Indicators sailing may bo being <br />crowded off tho lake, etc.; . <br />•T.-. <br />"t —.........