06-11-1990 Council Packet - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

43090.8 TO: Mayor and City Council FROM: Mark E. Bernharson, City Administrator DATE: May 8, 1990 SUBJECT: On Shore Facilities INTRODUCTION - Although billed as "on shore" facilities these are the facilities that interface between the land and the lake. They are the ones that cause substantial concern because of both the current activity level together with the potential for generating greater levels of activity. (This is particularily true of the larger powercraft activity, which seems to be the one of most concern to people. There seems to be a much lower level of concern related to sail boats, canoes and row boats.) The primary facilites that fall into this catagory are; Marinas - The concern here is not only the current regulation of these but more importantly what growth potential they have as it relates to; a.) new facilities, b.) increasing density of existing facilities and c.) expansion on either side of existing facilities. The primary expectation is that the economics, particularly the high sale prices in recent years will drive these commercial operators to perhaps undertake all three. (It should be remembered that the bulk of marina space in Orono is in very small area which is zoned for marinas with the comprehensive plan includino some of the residential buildings in between. The balance of the marina activity is the area where the Minnetonka Boat Works and Windward Marine straddle County Road 15. The primary concerns besides the generation of potential traffic are the setbacks, and general impacts it has on abutting residential properties together with the distance of the marinas out into the lake. Public Access - In general this issue has related more to the parking amount needed, location, share of access, lake calculations given to public access and related issues such as trespassing than the actual access themselves. Residential Docks - This includes both present single family dociTs, municipal docks (of which there are none in Orono) and homeowners associations/apartment docks. Among the concerns for increase in this is the "illegal" rental of these slips to off-lake residents in order to, among other things, help pay taxes for the residents. V-’ • Additional concerns are the potential for redevelopment