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= 11 - It would be no problem for anyone to get there at any .time during the day from any other suburban or inner city area. What the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts and other uYouth programs have to offer for this nature center can be done on a day time basis without our having to stay there overnight. I would be very much in disagree- ment to this overnight site. JS Okay, thank you. The gentleman in the back. My name is Edward Hanson, 2169 Lakeb~ook Drive, Mr Mayor and Council persons, I am a spokesman for the Long Lake Homeowners Assoc. President Jerry Bensing. At a meeting on January 19, 1978 the Long Lake Homeowner's Assoc. passed a resolution relating to this park and I request that the Council receive a copy of this resolution. JS Do you have copies for the full council? EH Yes sir. JS Okay and will you read that please or summarize it? EH: Yes, okay I will read it, it's not that long. At a meeting of the Long Lake Homeowners Association on January 19, 1978, the membership considered the Long Lake concept plan ,f or the development of Long Lake Regional Park., which concept plan,has been approved by the Planning Commission of the New Brighton, has been forwarded to the City Council for the City of New Brighton for their approval. The membership concluded that it was their desire and in the best interest of the community and-the public generally to limit the development in uses of Long Lake Regional Park to passive uses, such as family picnicking, swimming, biking and nature centers. The membership was advised that a questionnaire had been distributed to the community and had been analy~od by the Park Board and summarized in a tabulation which is attached. It was observed that the Long Lake Concept Plan for the development of Long Lake Regional Park as approved by the City of New Brighton Park Board and ~s submitted to the City Council includes various uses of the park which are ih ~.~~~- opposition to the publics desired use. Therefore, be it resolved r~\' that by the-Long Lake Homeowners Association that the Long Lake Homeowners Assoc. request tha,~ City Council to modify the Park ~~~' Development Plan submitted by the Park Board in the following respectss=° One That the ei ht uses receiving the ma 'orit of the ~.' votes ~~ as appropriate uses for the park, be established as the facilities which the Long Lake Regional Park will provide. That is specifically, picnic area; hiking trails, bicycle trails, nature center, cross country ski trails, swimming beach, fishing dock~_~~r'd3 handicapped trails. That all the proposed uses of Long Lake Regional Park other than those listed above, be deleted from the Long Lake Concept Plan. Specifically, canoe rental, boat launch, tent camping. Three , that any recommended development be limited to passive uses, passive development. Respectfully suitted, herald Bensing. There are two foot notes in regard to this proposal, ah the first relates to this matter of how you define passive versus active, and apparently there was a significant amount of discussion in the Park Board relative to the definition of those terms, at least one group