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��L �G'�' RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL
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A RESOLUTION OPPOSING
� VENDING OF FOOD OR MERCHANDISE
� FROM WATERCRAFT ON LAKE MINNETONKA
WHEREAS, the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District has received a request to allow
vending of food and/or inerchandise from watercraft on Lake Minnetonka; and
WHEREAS,the vending of food and merchandise froin watercraft on Lake Minnetonka is
• inherently unsafe due to the following aspects of such activity:
1. It requires that two or more boats approach each other and remain ui close proxiinity �
. to one another, and may bring multiple boats together in a small area which is
• inherently dangerous. �
2. It will tend to occur in the most congested areas of the lake in order to be financially
feasible, creating an even more congested situation; and
WHEREAS, any attempt to minimize the inherent unsafe aspects of sales activity in the
open lake by inoving such activity near the shoreline will have a negative impact on the enjoyment
and repose of Orono's residential lakeshore property owners by creating undue activity, commotion,
noise, litter, exhaust fumes, etc.; and ,
WHEREAS, more than one-third of the shoreline of Lake Minnetonka is within the
corporate boundaries of the City of Orono, and 98%of Orono's Lake Minnetonka shoreline is zoned
for single family residential uses; and
WHEREAS,the City's lakeshore land use regulations,including marina regulatioiis,are very
restrictive to protect the lakeshore area; and
WHEREAS,the permitting of the vending of food and/or merchandise from watercraft on
Lake Minnetonka would be in total conflict with the City's lakeshore land use regulations; and
WHEREAS, it is in the public interest that vending activity on Lake Miiinetonka be
• prolubited due to the safety concerns and negative public impacts noted above.
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NOW,THEREFORE,BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of Orono, Minnesota that
the Lake Minnetonka Conservation District be encouraged to neither license nor allow the vending
of food or merchandise from watercraft on Lake Minnetonka. �
Adopted by the City Council of Orono, Minnesota at a regular meeting held this 9th day of
December, 1996 by a vote of 5 ayes and 0 nayes.
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orothy M. H ' , City Clerk Edward J. Call , Jr., Mayor
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