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To: . <br />Mayor. Tom Gamec <br />The City Council Members <br />Ramsey Planning and Zoning Commission <br />Ramsey Parks Commission <br />City Administrator, Kurt Ulrich <br />The Sunfish lake shoreline park trail. <br />1t 8 •I <br />April 10, 2008 <br />This topic resurfaces again after being put to rest in the 1990's, and appears to be driven again by staff of <br />• the.City, who like to put lines "on maps. NONE of the owners of the shoreline were ever in favor of any <br />sort of trail or welkway along the shoreline of the (at the time) totally private lake, with no public access. <br />With the construction of Sunwood Drive on the south, any real reason to want to look at this water has <br />left. The Egrets. and Sandia cranes were the last, the Trumpeter Swans left when construction started. <br />Even the number of Geese useing the lake is decreasing. The Geese effectively keep other water birds <br />away while they are there. The Seaguls left when the landfill closed to dumping. <br />The idea that people who own lake frontage would like a trail in their front yard Is ludicris. They pay eodra <br />in taxes for this land classification, And It is THEIR FRONT YARD. There is the reason it is called Lake <br />Frontage and stated that the property FRONTS on a lake or waterway_ Even If the trail is in a backyard, <br />the first thing that happens is the 6 foot high fence to create the privacy that is desired. The first example <br />of this BAD planning exists in the Rlvenabend Plat, 1 wood bet that this segment is very unused. <br />Back to Sunfish Lake, which is really NOT Sunfish lake, it is Grass Lake In ali official records for the <br />county and state. The DNR En wisdom of classifying wetlands in the 70's designated this lake with the <br />most restrictive lake lass in the city. This was accomplished Pre 1979 when I became a Planning <br />Commission member. It Is the only water body in the city with this classification. In those.days the name <br />of the class sounded nice, so it was accepted. An official name change would be a nice project for the <br />Ramsey Parks Commission I would think <br />Now the trail planning, and cajoling of the last two owners of private property needed for any sort of trail <br />has started again. There are many options being offered for the land and access needed (hearsay) <br />including, land .not on the lake, and Increased density above R -1 with staff support for it. This is a totally <br />