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ISSUE 6: MUNICIPAL POLICIES WHICH nELATE TO LAKE USE AND DEVELOPMENT ON THE LAKE b.l That the report of the MCTFLM describe the issue and recommend it as a priority issue to be addressed by LMCD. LMCD has excellent access to the municipalities fey- data. Staff assistance, i.e., technical assistance, could reasonably come to LMCD from the Metropolitan Council, because of that staffs-xperience in comprehensive planning and zoning issues. A useful product of this study, among others, could be an inventory or those parts of Lake Minnetonka i, shoreline where boat launching and other public shoreline access are not prohibited by policy or zoning conflict. With this inventory, decisions about future public access could be based on a more realistic view of what is and is not possible under current local plan controls. ISSUE 7: COMMERCIAL ACCESS TO THE LAKE 7.1 That the MCTFLM repot describe the issue and recommend further study on use from commercial access as an important data source to guide several surface use decisions. Specifically, it would be very helpful to deter- mine the following characteristics about users from commercial access points: - Numbers and use times; - Type of use; and - Origin, destination and zones or sub zones of greatest use. The information should be acquired with other information in the process recommended by MCTFLM which calls for a more active LMCD, working in con- junction with continued research by DNR and by the Metropolitan Council. ISSUE 8: RESEARCH ON RECREATION USE OF LAKE MINNETONKA 8.1 There should be expanded use monitoring, especially for peaks and length of peaks. 7herc seems to be some opinion and data that suggest level or declining peak use. This needs substantiation. 8.2 There should also be soma origin -destination work done on boaters. Where they put in and where they go on the lake would help in locating future access. This is relatively easy to do, but it requires interviews of users at all access types. 8.3 Data on potential increases in all types of access is needed. This means monitoring of shoreline development, local plans for this kind of develop- ment and plans for undeveloped land in what might be cal'ed the "service area" of Lake Minnetonka. Methods and data exist to gauge changes in public access use, but similar systematic data is not available for other types of access. Increased development in communities surrounding Lake Minnetonka will probably put pressure on surface use of the lake by increasing demand for all types cf access. This will be particularly important as the proportion of use arising from L.,fferent kinds of access becomes more clear. 7