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REGULAR MEETING OF THE ORONO COUNICL, DECEMBER 14 , 1981 fage 9 <br /> Mr. Vogt stated that it is not the regular sportsman- PARK LANF; LAKE ACCESS <br /> type fisherman that they want to keep out. It is the (Continu�:d) <br /> outlaws that they want to keep out but how can that be <br /> regulated--which are which? <br /> Mayor Van Nest stated that the City cannot keep <br /> citizens from using the lake for fishing. <br /> Mr. Vogt stated that the residents want the access <br /> closed because of public safety. <br /> Other lake accesses were discussed. Mr . Vogt stated <br /> that fishermen with plows could plow roads on the lake <br /> from other accesses and not use the Park Lane access. <br /> Mr. Rudd stated that he had been with Hennepin County <br /> Water Partol for ten years, as a volunteer, and stated <br /> that this past winter was the worst that he had ever . <br /> seen. All night long traffic is going past with some <br /> persons getting stuck and using material from the lake- <br /> shore properties to get their cars free. There is no <br /> place on Stubbs Bay to get onto the lake; at the <br /> Merrill/Gibbs locaton on Maxwell Bay, the access has <br /> been blocked off, and the access located by Gayles <br /> Marina is no longer available . Oak Street is open <br /> all the way down to the lake that could be used instead <br /> of Park Lane . <br /> John Gerhardson, Public Works Coordinator, stated <br /> that there is no access at Oak Street. <br /> Mayor Van Nest stated that he sympathized with the ' <br /> Park Lane residents, as he had the same problem at <br /> Carman ' s Bay where he lives. That access was a long <br /> dirt road that led to a swimming beach that became <br /> crowded with people so residents of the area took a <br /> survey of the fishhouses and found that they were not <br /> residents of Lake Minnetonka. The main problem there <br /> was that they were tearing up the City road in the <br /> spring, which cost the City of Orono manv dollars, so <br /> eventually that access was closed uuring the winter months. <br /> Mr . Vogt stated that the same problem is at Park Lane <br /> where the shoreline is being torn up. <br /> Mrs. Rudd brought up the fact that there had been a <br /> problem on Sunday. <br /> Dick Benson informed the citizens that the City <br /> Council has a police report concerning that problem <br /> where a sign stating that the access was closed had <br /> been put up in the area. Mr. Benson stated that the <br /> City had not put up the sign. <br /> (Continued) <br />