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To: Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrator From: Jeanne A. Mabusth, Building & Zoning Administrator Date: January 18, 1989 Subject: LMCD - Lake Minnetonka Management Plan Background on LMCD *8 Proposed Management Plan - Council has recently been advised of the DNR's proposed revisions of the Shoreland Management Rules that have been developed to apply to the 4,000 odd lakes that are targeted for active management by the DNR. Rules reflect more stringent land use controls for all targeted communities with lakes and shoreland areas (land areas within 1,000* of lakeshore). The rules range from minimum allowed structures at the edge of the lakeshore to visual/aesthetic impact of multiple story buildings located 1,000*+ from the lake. Based on the varied types of developments found adjacent to these specific lakes, the DNR rules represent a compromise applicable to shorelines ranging from urbanized to largely undeveloped. Specific shoreland regulations were not developed with the special needs of Lake Minnetonka and its 14 shoreline communities in mind. The DNR has offered all 14 of the LMCD member communities the opportunity to draft their own comprehensive plan for the lake. The LMCD has assumed the role of coordinating and drafting the Comprehensive Management Plan for Lake Minnetonka. In the spring of 1988, the LMCD convinced the Systems Committee of the Metropolitan Council that the LMCD could produce a Management Plan for Lake Minnetonka within two years based on a planning framework and schedule drafted by Andorfer Associates (consultants to the LMCD) dated November, 1986, **Scope of Work** - Management Plan for Lake Minnetonka. In consider ation of the LMCD*s previous attempts at drafting a Management Plan, the Systems Committee of the Metropolitan Council had assumed that there was little prospect for. the development of the Management Plan by local interests, and if a Management Flan for Lake Minnetonka was to be realized, that it would have to be done at a County, Regional or State level. The Management Plan being developed by particating local municipalities under the fraunework and direction of the LMCD represents the last opportunity ' r local leadership in this planning process. If we fail to develop a coordinated plan that protects the lake by the two year deadline, the Metropolitan Council will use its influence to assure that a coordinated Management Plan is developed and it is not clear at what level local input wilw^ be sought.