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Resolution No. 938 • Page 7 33. As a condition to the issuance of the 1975 commercial marina licenses, each commercial marina operator agreed with the City in writing to an Operations Agreement outlining a three-year phased improvement program established to replace natural vegetation previously removed, to provide for adequate storm water runoff controls, to provide for open space and vegetation buffers between the marina properties and adjoining residential properties, to provide for adequate parking and traffic control and to provide for reasonable performance standards relating to the nonconforming placement and use of docks and mooring spaces upon the public waters. 34. All of.the requirements of the 1975 Operations Agreement are reasonable exercises of the normal police powers of the City of Orono intended to correct the previous abuses and overuses of public waters and the congested commercial marina sites, to correct for the public harm caused by such abuses and to prevent future abuse of the land or the public waters. 35. All of the requirements of Chapter 73 of the Orono • . Municipal Code regulating commercial marina operations, Statute - 35.100 of the Orono Zoning Code regulating the use of lakeshore business district property and the 1975 Operations Agreement are in full conformity with the applicable regulations and intents and purpose of the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District's regulations for commercial marinas and the State of Minnesota, Department of Natural Resources' regulations for protection of public waters. 36. •None b f the commercial marinas have fully complied with the 1975 Operations Agreement. There -.has been a general lack of good faith on the part of the marina operators, who -have exhibited disregard for complying with the provisions of the 1975.0perations Agreement and disregard for the legitimate concerns of their residential neighbors and the public at large. 37. Based upon the above findings of fact, including all of the many many.meetings of marina operators with the Planning Commission and City Council of the City of Orono and the Marina Licensing Committee, the.City Council of the City of Orono adopts the following policies: A. Further increases in the rental of slips and mooring spaces and extensions of docks into the lake and storage of boats for sale in commercial marinas will -create further harm to the environment of Lake Minnetonka including the quality of -water and the use and enjoyment of the lake for recreational purposes -by the general public and other riparian owners.