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2 <br />o The issue of appropriate LMCD constitution remains open, no conclusions or <br />recommendations should be made by the Council until the plan is completed.' <br />o The LMCD has a three-year study and planning schedule. There are reasons why <br />it should be accelerated. A Council grant would help. <br />o LMCD bases its planning process on the consultant and its own members. A <br />technical advisory and policy advisory committee would help by incorporating <br />a wide perspective. <br />CONCLUSIONS <br />o LMCD should be doing a few things that it has not. <br />o LMCD has begun activities to meet the Council's major concerns, many depend <br />upon results of the study and plan. The Council should reserve its decision <br />until the evidence is in. <br />o The current sche�jle is too long, and the planning process is too narrowly <br />based. The Council should help by accelerating the study and by ensuring a <br />wider perspective in the process. <br />RECOMMENDATIONS <br />That Metropolitan Council should: <br />1. Conclude that LMCD has begun a program which will lead to a comprehen <br />sive lake surface management plan for Lake Minnetonka. <br />2. Offer a planning grant to LMCD on the condition that it aL;ilerate the <br />plan and ensure that the planning process will incorporate a regional <br />perspective. <br />3. Offer to participate in a technical advisory committee and a policy <br />advisory committee for LMCD's planning process. <br />4. Direct staff to stay in contact with LMCD discussions and report to <br />the Council again in 1989 or at such time as significant changes call <br />for a report. <br />5. Request LMCD to modify its work plan to addres. Metropolitan Council <br />recommendations not under way or incorporated :,thin the study and <br />pl.aroing process. <br />BACKGROUND <br />in 1985, the Minnesota Executive Council requested that the Metropolitan Council <br />examine and recommend solutions to the regional issues over public access and <br />use of Lake Minnetonka. The Metropolitan Council created a task force to con- <br />duct the study, accepted a report from its task force in early 1986, and sub- <br />sequently transmitted a Council report to the Minnesota Executive Council. The <br />April 1986 Council report dealt with several aspects of public activity on am <br />around Lake Minnetonka. The report was not confined to regional recreation d <br />to a regional park on the lake. It recognized a wider spectrum of Council <br />interest in this important regional resource. <br />