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in urder to tip tlie root ball bacl: into place aiid clear the road«ay. He also sho�ved ��ou a titimber ��t�e�istinU trees alona our shoreline bet��-een the lake and the pa��ement which are now leaning badly toward the pavement, due to similarly ��eakened surrounding soil at the roots, and which are very likely to uproot and fall across the roadway in future strong winds unless further work is done. Explairiing that the only way to save them now will probably be to top them severely and strenghten the roots with additional soil. He stressed tlie importance of preservin� these trees not only for their aesthetic valtie but also for their ability to stabilize the soil between the lake and the road and in turn maintaiii and protect the stability of Ferndale Road. Both my father and i felt you were in agreement with us during your site visit June 23, 1998 on the need to correct these problems with further work. V�Ie all discused the difficulty in ho�v to choose the most effective method to tise and some possible choices such as shoreline rip rap, soil fill stabilized iising silt fencing and the planting of�•egetation, and sea �valls. You agreed «-ith us that tlie repair of the most se�-ere holes should be done soon. You su�gested that ��e could communicate with the MDNR to Qet additional information and suggestions regarding possible methods to solve these problems and effective soil stabilizatiotl metliods. We understood this to be a helpfiil suggestion, not a requirement. My w'ritten application and the permit itself liave no limiting conditions only allowing for �vork already done oti Jurie 2�3, 1998 as you seem to claim in yotir Dec. 28, 1998 response. It is totally illogical that if it was a�reed upon and intended only to allow the �vor� already completed on June 23, 1998 that it ��ould not have been clearly written as such and clearly state those supposed limitations, would have an e�piration date of Dec. 23, 1998, or that it would have been granted for and specifically altered by the city to provide zero to five hundred cubic yards of fill allowed under this permit, instead of the form's preprinted one to one hundred cubic yard quantity. The volume of fill put in place prior to the permit was much, much less than one htindred cubic yards and you certainl}' saw this ��hen yoti posted your stop work order at the site on June 23, 1998, prior to issuing permit number 01040�. The work being done on Nov. 30, 1998 was as provided by the permit. It was land alteration of the correct site using a quantity of soil well below the maYimum cubic yard limits of the permit. The work being done was the filling of holes and low spots on our property and along our shoreline exactly as I requested on the permit application and as granted in permit 010404. You did clearly state during our June meeting on site that �ve would need to control erosion as much as possible and that the work we planned to do p, 6