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<br />~Jt <br /> <br />Ap0110.2008 <br /> <br />To: <br /> <br />Mayor Tom Gamec <br /> <br />The City Council Members <br /> <br />'Ramsey Planning and Zoning Commission <br /> <br />Ramsey Parks Commission <br /> <br />City Administrator, Kurt Ulrich <br /> <br />The Sunfish lake shoreline park trail. <br /> <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 Qf the shoreline were ever in favor of any <br />sort of trail or walkway along the shoreline of the (at the time) totally private Jake, 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 Sandhill 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 Seagulls left when the landfill closed ,to dumping. <br /> <br />The idea that people who own lake frontage would like a trail in their front yard is ludicris. They pay extra <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 Rlversbend Plat, I would bet that this segment is v~ry unused. :' <br /> <br />Back to Sunfish Lake, which is really NOT Sunfish lake, it is Grass Lake in all official recOrds for the' <br />county and state. The DNR In it wisdom of classifying wetlands in the 70's designated this lake with the <br />most restrictive lake class In the city. Thls'was accompUshed Pre 1979 when I became a Piannlng <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 /> <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 la~d 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 />