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RECULAR MEETING OF THE ORONO COUNCIL, DECEMBER 14 , 1981 Page 7 Dick Benson, City Administrator, presented the STATE AID REDUCTIONS City Council with a memo concerning State Aid Reductions dated December 3 , 1981. At 8 : 30 P .M. , Mayor Van Nest announced that the PUBLIC INFORMATION public information meeting concerning the Park MEETING Lane Lake Access was now opened for discussion. Park Lane Lake Access Many residents of the Park Lane Lake Access were present in response to a letter mailed to them December 10 , 1981, informing the residents that the Park Lane and North Arm Bay parking matter would be on the agenda December 14 , 1981. Dick Benson, City Administrator, presented the City Council with a memo concerning the Park Lane Lake Access dated December 4 , 1981 , which states: • I have reviewed the Park Lane Lake Access at North . Arm and recommend we follow the same procedure we have followed when identifying a lake access problem and attempting to regulate if there is, indeed, a public safety, health, and welfare problem. I recommend the City designate "No Parking" strictly enforced 24-hours a day, seven days a week. Since the area is actually a cul-de-sac and part of Park Lane used by residents and overall street traffic, and not only an access to the Lake , the area can be designated tow-away zone and enforced as such. If � through this winter-and summer-time frame (81-82) , � we do identify other violations that subject our residents to public safety, health, and welfare concerns, I do recommend, at that time, we consider other action at the actual lakeshore frontage access. My rational for this action is reviewing other lake accesses that have been regulated, each has had a vast history of either motorized vehicles interfering and causing safety problems with swimming lessons during summer months, cars and trailors backing out into a heavily traveled primary street from a short access to the lake with no cul-de-sac , or a lake access that simply dead-ends at the lake that is only classified as a fire lane and has no other identity except cause extreme hardships for abutting property owners. Park Lane access is a cul-de-saced traveled street and should be considered and evaluated from a different prospective . The only vaild complaints on record are seven parking complaints. �e have had no calls, no complaints, since April , 1981 . (Continued)