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_ y- , 2, In the health , safety and welfare of the citizens of Orono , th�t that point should be vacated , it should be closed down and no public parkinq should be allowed . The reason for that is simple , there is more fishin4 space for shore fishinq and if you ille4alv use the tracks of Burlinctton Northern which thev won ' t close , thev tried at one time in the past and there was a swamp fire there . If you don ' t restrict that which is very difficult to restrict there are more fishinq spots and they are possibly parking there and for miles around , so you cannot keep inviting the people by improving their facility oppose to ours because it only provides a areater and qreater problem and it will never be solved . But vou can I believe , if you would restrict it at this point , beautify it , fence it , berm it , landscape it and start a control nobody is going to come out with publicity that you are closing down the place because if you decide politically , because of the DNRpressures , I e3on' t think we should concede to , but if this is vour feeling that you cannot have an announcement in the paper that the council voted to close that parkinq lot , then therefore landscape it entirely to beautifv Orono and to nrotect the citizens , then if vou were qoinq to allow anv parkina there it seems to me that you should take these steps that I have suqqested and I think the other people would support to kind of control that and start a process whereby you can monitor the parkinq , you can get rid of the filth and the waste and everything else . Now there are only 3 points that that would take . (a) The property vacated to the Gregory' s would include what is now known as the tree line. The treeline to the perception is the end of the parkinq lot that presentiv exists and vou would vacate the propertv and up to includinq that treeline . The question there and if you do walk the proerty, you will see is should that line thats vacated qo directly across parallel to the treeline in fact right angles from the Burlington Northern tracks , so it would go across here right to county 15, or should it go down this piece and leave this trianc�le , that red triangle that you see down in here , should it leave that open and be City property. The obvious point is that that is not used for parking now it is too narrow to park a car on and it obviously invites more filth and trash down there if it is controled by the City rather than if it is a private property which then