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Hi All, <br />ti <br />a) <br />T- <br />I thought I would summarize my thoughts in writing. For background information I was intimately involved in the <br />acquisition, funding, building and community meetings for the Maxwell bay and Grays bay public access sites. I worked <br />with the city, state and county. What you see there is the result of years of planning and negotiating. From no trailer <br />parking from Norenberg to Fletcher's to eliminating one of the access sites on Grays Bay and converting the dam access <br />to be car top only. Our little strip of land on Maxwell and North Arm is extremely dense, within half a mile or so we have <br />two public access sites at two marinas. It has a disproportionate amount of density and use. Expanding the use is in <br />conflict of the Public Access Report commissioned by Governor Carlson and agreed on by all stakeholders and <br />government agencies involved on Lake Minnetonka. The proposed redesign of the access is not user friendly and does <br />not lend itself to be used by the average person who is not trained to pull a trailer regularly. Adding a commercial <br />component to this access will be disastrous. I'm not sure that staff understand what that means. I'm including some <br />photos that were taken this summer. Commercial is Not a handful of docks being delivered. When such activities occur it <br />renders the access unusable for many many hours and changes the traffic patterns around the lake and puts an <br />enormous amount of pressure on the residential community. I applaud the county for recognizing and trying to <br />deal with the need for commercial access but trying to jam everything in one small site will render the site dangerous <br />and unavailable for the average use. the county identified the need for commercial use in the early 70's which was <br />temporarily handled (for the past few decades) by Minnetonka Portable Dredging. Please see attached document. It is <br />my belief that the county owes it to the resource and the community to man the accesses and staff should visit daily and <br />put a weight and size restriction to prevent a few to dominate its use and frustrate the general public by their inability to <br />use it. <br />Feel free to call me. Thank you for listening. <br />Respectfully, <br />Gabriel Jabbour <br />612-599-2838 <br />