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.i=:b�=, +` '� � . �'. . . , • * . ' ; S,;' ... , ._ `•,L.+ •,',, O . � � • O O �b- - �C ITY of 4RON0 � � �� ,'�' RESOWTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL . L`�kEsKO�`'� No. 3 " � °� continuation of five existing marinas witlun the City containing iu excess of 425 rental slips for use Uy the public; and is home to Hennepin County's Nort?i Arm lake access which provides approximately 63 car/trailer parking spaces for use by the public. 2. In 1983 the DNR in conjunction with flie Governar's Lake Access Task Force concluded that 700 reliable parking spaces were needed around Lalce Miru�etonka. Tlze 80 car/trailer spaces � proposed for the Maxwell Bay access in conjunction wifll the 63 existing car/trailer spaces at the Noi�1i Arm access,total 143 reliable car trailer spaces within Oroiio. Further, in light of the above inentioned 5 marinas and additional public:ake access provided by the City,tlie City of Orono has nlore than met its obligation for providing lake access to the public, and no additional access nor expansion of existing access should be required in the City of � Orono. 3. The DNR initiated discussion of a new public water access site on Maxwell Bay as early as 1991,and has included the City and its residents in numerous discussions and reviews of the • proposed siYe plan as it has developed over the past four years. 4. t�t tlle request oF the City of Orono,the so called "Straley site" originally proposed by the DNR for a 25 car/trailer access facility,was discontinued as a feasible location far an access, and DNR lias subsequently acquired a site located in the B-2 Lakeshore Business District which is in the opinion of the City a location superior in many ways to the Straley site for development of a lake access, and for wliich acquisition costs by the DNR have exceeded $2;000,400. 5. In establishing guidelines for development of the M�well Bay access,the DNR has met the intent if not the letter of Orono's enviromnental protection ordiiiances in regard to maintaining adequate green buffers at the snoreline,providing adequate storm water controls, anci providing adequate landscaping and vegetation while minimizing hardcover. 6. The Maxwell Bay access with 80 car/trailer spaees will provide adequate off street parking to allow the City to eliminate on street car/trailer parking in the area which has becoine an annoyance and a hazard to local residents. • " Page 2 of 4