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1992 LMCD Lake Minnetonka Access Task Force Report <br />(1) Includes credit for spaces reserved in lots for car top carried watercraft, 7 at North Arm Access, and <br />3 at Grays Bay Dam. <br />(2) 31 car/trailer spaces will be eliminated in the vicinity of North Arm and Maxwell Bay as part of an <br />agreement with Orono when the DNR access at Maxwell Bat is in operation. <br />The Task Force recognizes there is additional car/trailer parking beyond 2000 feet that is available today <br />and not part of the above count. It, also, recognizes there are additional small launch ramps in use and <br />available today that are not in the above count. <br />This report adopts a new and lower inventory in an effort to be very conservative after consultation with <br />Hennepin County and the cities. The revised total inventory of 516 car trailer spaces represents parking <br />that is available now, or that can reasonably be made available on a stable long-term basis. There are <br />approximately 379 car/trailer parking spaces currently available and that are being certified by the LMCD. <br />Of these, approximately 282 spaces are in public access lots. An additional 97 spaces are in on -street <br />parking sites. Approximately 168 future spaces are either committed or negotiable. Note that when <br />Maxwell Bay is completed, 31 on street spaces will be eliminated. This results in a total of 516 potential <br />car/trailer parking spaces that are now believed to be available or planned and which meet the new <br />parking standards and that can be certified by the LMCD.,,,Parking agreements need to be reached with, <br />communities, counties, agencies and private commercial marinas to convert some existing parking from <br />uncertified to certified . <br />PARKING AGREEMENTS AND DNR COST SHARING <br />One result of the 1986 task force was the improvement in the process that secures parking spaces at or <br />near existing public access sites that can be considered to be "reliable". To make new or existing parking <br />reliable over the years a parking agreement can be secured with the property owner that requires the <br />car/trailer parking to remain available in place unless canceled under the agreement. If the parking spaces <br />are lost, a good faith effort will be made to replace them with other parking spaces somewhere else. The <br />LMCD and the DNR will assist communities to relocate them. The Task Force continued this <br />recommendation and developed a current model agreement. The Lake Access Parking Agreement form <br />for evaluating public access parking agreements are provided in APPENDIX 5, pages 17-19. <br />These agreements should be between the LMCD and the local unit of government or property owner. <br />The DNR will assist with these agreements by providing funding where appropriate. The DNR can share <br />cost with cities and/or agencies on access and parking facilities improvement, including land acquisition. <br />The DNR by cooperative agreement can reimburse cities for dedicated free car/trailer parking. <br />The DNR Landowner's Bill of Rights describes the procedure used by the DNR in the purchase of <br />potential access sites. The Lake Minnetonka acquisition process is the DNR commitment to work <br />cooperatively in this area. see APPENDIX 6 and 7 pages 20-24. <br />The first agreement was signed in May of 1993 with the City of Minnetrista. The agreement with that <br />city was for a total of 44 parking spaces at the following sites: <br />1. Williams Street in Halsteds Bay: 40 car/trailer parking spaces <br />2. Tuxedo Boulevard in Phelps Bay: 4 car/trailer parking spaces <br />Page 9 <br />260 <br />