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past «�orl:, the road«�ay area ��ould be unsate and «ould ha��e required ��orl: by the City to maintain the safety uf the roadway. There are a number of trees and plants �vhich only survived because we had done past work to repair damage to the soil surrounding their roots. We have seeded these sites and encouraged plant grow�th to provide an attractive, usable, stabilized surface as well. Of course it takes a reasonable amount of time to attain this growth after each repair. We intend to seed the work site you visited on June 23, 1998 so it �vill have grass to match the surrounding mow�ed lawn. We have no desire to have bare earth creating mtid arotind our docks, lawns, and shoreline. VVe also wish to minimize erosion each time a repair is done to prevent having to repeat the time, labor, and expense of the work all over again. Sho��ing you our past repairs was intended to communicate this clearl_y, as well as demonstrate that our work was not harming anything. Many of the earlier repaired sites are no�v indistinguishable from the surrounding land. No one has ever had ariy difficulty ��ith our repair �r�ork in the past aild tllere is �io reason atiyone should lia��e a probleiil witli it no��-. My father also spoke �vith you eYplaining several probleins in the area of our docks, shoreline. pond area, and lawn. These included the following. 1 . Deep bunows into the land of our dock area. 2. Deep buno��s in the lakeside, undermining Ferndale Road and tlie shoulder of the roadwav. 3. Underiiiiiiitlg and eYposure of tree roots causiiig instability of tlie trees bet�veen Ferndale Road and the lake. �l. Ex-tensive burrov�-s in the la��n and pond area between our house and Ferndale Road. He went on to further point out damage that had already occurred because of these burrows and associated processes. The loss of a large cottonwood tree near our docks during a storm some years ago, �vhich we feel is largely due to loss of soil siinounding the tree base. The tree's root ball detached and tipped up, out of the surrounding weakened shoreline. This resulted in the tree cutting ot�po��-er and telephone sei-�-ice to the entire area and the fallen tree blocking Ferndale Road. Lucltil}� no one was injured in this incident, although it resulted in the damaged live electrical wires laying across and also completely blocking the roadway at the time. This same cottonwood's remainin� stump and roots have continued to lose soil and are a perfect e�ample of what we are repairing. He also disctissed the similar loss of a smaller tree fiirther east and also south of the roadway more recently, which again blocked the road, as the root ball detached and tipped upward, out of the weakened lakefront soil and sunounding burrows. Again we were lucky, and no one was injured. This tree had to be se��erely topped P. s