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— �!- I find it really very difficult to understand why the City is tryinq to at this point establish a Public access . We have Iived at that address for l� years and in that time we found traffic qrowinq , the noise growinq , most important for us we found the refuse growing , and in watching what the City has done in that perioc� of time , doesn ' t fill me with a lot of confidence about what the City is going to do on this . I haven ' t seen a sinqle refuse barrell empty in the period of time we have been there . At fishinq time I recall that there was police sunervision from the Citv of Orono once . We freauentiv ao down with refuse baqs and pick up �unk . I haven ' t even seen the travelinq ",7ohn" handled with qreat deal of delicacy in this area , so I reallv approach and I really see with a qreat deal of distrust , the f_act that the City wants to do somethinq wi.th that propertybecause the City' s hands aren ' t c].zan on i.t as f_ar as I have seen in the time I have been livinq there . I think that the traffic problem and the amount of use that is derivable to the public of that small piece of c�round is in nowhere in line with what it is goinq to cost to properly maintain it and although we have not compl�ined in the l�l years , if the City makes it a public landinq or a public access and if it isn ' t properly maintained in the f_uture , we are qoinq to complai.n . Because there isn ' t any reason why we should be pickinq up trash and the City is not . I am very cognizant of the DNR position about lake access and I am sympathetic with that�but I find it difficult to reconcile the City' s position on this very small fragmented piece when it has received the qrant from the Davtons some vears aao of_ acreaQe on Lonq Lake which has not been developed by the City at all . I hapnened to take the occasion today to visit that piece of propertv , it is chained across the road , there is no siqn that is indicatinq that it is a public access . There is nothinq in the whole property that indicates that the City has tried to expand its public use . So I am confused that that piece with the traffic count on East Long Lake Road should be inferior to this piece with its traffic counts the curves and everything else , I think is hiqhlv danqerous . I do think the neiqhbors can address the refuse and the other problems that are not major but I also think the neiqhbors as taxpayers should address whether this can be an efficient piece of public access . I doubt it . Thank you .