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August 21, 1985 Page 2 It is felt that these can be addressed in other manners short of posting no -parking. As far as pedestrian bike safety along the way, the potential for problems does exist. Prohibitting parking may not necessarily remedy those and to the extent that the cars parked along North Shore Drive tend to "narrow" North Shore Drive may tend to slow the driver and may actually improve the situation. The concern of the neighbors in part is that they have seen the problem increase over the last 3 to 5 years in part due to closings or limitations of other accesses on the lake together with an expected in- crease in boating in future years. This is in part based on an expected increase in use by off -lake residence as areas such as Orono's rural area develop. This may also be aggrevated if a significant number of non- residence boat owners who currently dock at private docks along the lake are no longer able to utilize those docks and begin to utilize public accesses on a regular basis. If it hoped that the DNR's attempts to secure the public accesses either on the west or south side will alleviate part of this problem. RECOMMENDATION A. That the Council encourage the appropriate parties to take the following remedial action to address this specific problems. 1. Encourage construction of low decorative fences of the ease- ment, not to exceed 3 112 feet to be constructed by the appro- priate private residents and help provide property definition and limit trespassing, and insure appropriate signage is posted - both on the road side of tr.- properties and the lake side of the docks. 2. The City work with the County to attempt the following: - utilization of asphalt curbing to prevent parking off the asphalt damaging the people's grass - stripping be to allow for pedestrian bike path on lakeside of County Road 51 - the designated gap (6 to 10 feet) every 150 to 2n0 feet to improve pedistrian safety crossing - if needed, appropriate signage be put up to direct persons back to the public a.-cess 3. That the residents aid the City work together to monitor the situation and develop means and information by which the owners can work with the police to limit law violations as relates to their property.