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a proportiociate tree canop�� and ��itlistand ��ind and stornis to reach tlieir current size and thickness. For anyune to claim that the specific areas we tilled «�ere not at one time solid, dry soil is unreasonable and incorrect. Therefore the question is, where does the land stop and the lakebed begin. Apparently we do not agree on this point. The City, MCWD, and MDNR do not require every property owner to get a permit or permission every time an animal digs a hole in their land and they �vish to fill it in to repair the damage. That is not the purpose, intent, or Qoal of these regulations and codes. Regardless of ho�v many cubic yards of till it tal:es to accomplish the task, these are not intended to prevent property owners from repairing such damage. The fact that we are dealing ��-ith many large holes does not change this basic fact. Ai�er enough time, digging, and erosion, even the most solid of ground �vill be damaged as lias occurred here. We are not asking to do anything ��ild or unreasonable here. To attempt to use these codes to prevent us from tilling in tliese holes and repairing this ob��ious dama�,�e is clearly� a gross niisuse of the codes and contrary to their intended purpose. It is siinply not reasonable to pre��ent propei-ty o�vners from repairing dama�e to their land. I ha�-e no intention of standing guard twenty four hours a day, every day�, forever. to attempt to prevent animals from digging in my land. That is certainl`� t�nreasonable arid abstird for anvone to expect, just so tllese codes can be enforced to some eYtreme degree as �i�ritten w�ithout anv common sense, reason, or fairness used in their enforcemetit. I also have no intention of attemptin� to kill any or all of these animals for the pointless misuse of these codes in applications clearly outside of tlieir intent. To claim that once an animal digs a hole it becomes some untouchable tloodplain or lakebed is also unreasonable and illogical. The intent, purpose and goal of these laws and codes protecting lakebeds arid floodplains is clearl}' not to prevent propert}� owners from filling in animal burrows and holes in their shoreline. They were enacted to protect true lakebed and �loodplain. Not to purport any animal liole reqtiires the same protection. If it isn't floodplain or lakebed before the animal dug the hole, it is not lakebed or floodplain aiter it digs it. It is simply a hole which the property o�vner clearly has a right to repair. Any complaints that the animals are contaminating the lake b}' digging and shouldn't be allowed to dig any fiirther are ridiculous and not the intent of any code or la��•. If this type of digging was going to ruin Lake Minnetonka, it would have been ruined long before any humans arrived to notice and would ha��e reached a condition beyond repair long ago! The work we are doing will in no way impede or endanger the City's, P. g