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ti .: . _ ^R ;JN; '�.;� . � O� . O O �e. - CITY of ORONO � � ti ��L �G'�' RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL � �kESH�g' NO. ,� � 2 5 A RESOLUTION OPPOSING � VENDING OF FOOD OR MERCHANDISE � FROM WATERCRAFT ON LAKE MINNETONKA WHEREAS, the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District has received a request to allow vending of food and/or inerchandise from watercraft on Lake Minnetonka; and WHEREAS,the vending of food and merchandise froin watercraft on Lake Minnetonka is • inherently unsafe due to the following aspects of such activity: 1. It requires that two or more boats approach each other and remain ui close proxiinity � . to one another, and may bring multiple boats together in a small area which is • inherently dangerous. � 2. It will tend to occur in the most congested areas of the lake in order to be financially feasible, creating an even more congested situation; and WHEREAS, any attempt to minimize the inherent unsafe aspects of sales activity in the open lake by inoving such activity near the shoreline will have a negative impact on the enjoyment and repose of Orono's residential lakeshore property owners by creating undue activity, commotion, noise, litter, exhaust fumes, etc.; and , WHEREAS, more than one-third of the shoreline of Lake Minnetonka is within the corporate boundaries of the City of Orono, and 98%of Orono's Lake Minnetonka shoreline is zoned for single family residential uses; and WHEREAS,the City's lakeshore land use regulations,including marina regulatioiis,are very restrictive to protect the lakeshore area; and WHEREAS,the permitting of the vending of food and/or merchandise from watercraft on Lake Minnetonka would be in total conflict with the City's lakeshore land use regulations; and WHEREAS, it is in the public interest that vending activity on Lake Miiinetonka be • prolubited due to the safety concerns and negative public impacts noted above.