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Resolution No. 938 Rage 5 20. The marinas have failed to show that their excessive use of Lake Minnetonka is in any way reasonable. 21. When the rights of other riparian owners and the rights of the public generally are contrasted with the marinas commercial and excessive use of their limited riparian rights, in order to maximize their economic return from harboring additional boats both on and off the public waters of Lake Minnetonka, the marians excessive use of the lake must be curtailed. 22. The above findings of fact relate not only to the extension of docks and mooring areas into Lake Minnetonka but also relate to the dredging of public waters which dredging has proven time after time to be a detriment to the public, present or future users of the public waters. 23. All of the commercial marinas are located adjacent to properties which are residentially zoned and/or residentially used or are in fact surrounded by residentially zoned and used properties. • 24. All of the commercial marinas began as and have historically operated as -small fishing ports and bait shops serving the general boating public with boat rental, fuel, bait and boat servicing. 25. Over the'past fifteen years, the scope of commercial marina operations has radically changed to the current emphasis upon showroom sales of expensive watercraft and accessories and the proliferation of slip and mooring rental for the exclusive storage of watercraft on public -waters by a limited number of private individuals. 26. Over the past fifteen years, the rental of boats to the general public, the launching and servicing of•boats owned by the general public and the sale of bait and fuel to the general public have been reduced, eliminated or made difficult and expensive to the point of discouraging access for the general public in favor of catering.to the few boat purchasers and slip and mooring renters. 27. The new emphasis upon slip and mooring rental has been accompanied by expansion of the number, size and extent of dock facilities and off -shore buoys over and upon large areas of the public • waters thereby creating a public.harm by excluding the.general boating and public from those waters.