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-8- Brighton. The idea I think is really very nice but extremely impracticle. Our facilities, the facilities anyway that you're describing here are, from my past experience, not good. From one point you are too close in of the residential area. It would be extremely difficult to maintain a group at that site without a conflict from other residential people and I'm not just referring to other residential young people but Itm referring to older people. I've had similar experiences, we have a camp that is located near White Bear. We have had an enormous amount of vandalism there to the point where we almost had to close the camp down completely. Now this, I understand is just going to be a camping area and you are still going to have overnight in- truders on the people that are camping there. There's. going to be an enormous amount of complaining because of it. I donut see any reason to have overnight camping there for our particu- lar groups because you are potentially located within the City itself. 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 Youth 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 disagreement to this overnight site. JS: Okay, thank you. The gentleman in the back. - My name is Edward Hanson, 2168 Lakebrook Drive. Mr. Mayor and Council persons. I am a spokesman for the Long Lake Homeowners Association President Jerry Bensing. At a meeting on January 19, 1978, the Long Lake Homeownerts Association passed a resolu- tion 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 for the develop- ment of Long Lake Regional Park. ...Concept Plan ... 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 analyzed by the Park Board and summarized in a tabulation which is attached. It was observed that the Long Lake Concept Plan for the develop= ment of Long Lake Regional Park is approved by the City of New Brighton Park Board and submitted to-the City Council includes various uses of the park which are in opposition to the public desired use. Therefore, be it resolved that by the Long Lake Homeowners Association that the Long Lake Homeowner Association that the Long Lake Homeowners Association request the City Council to modify the Park Development Plan submitted by the Park Board in the following respects: One that the eight uses receiving the majority of the~communty's votes as appropriate uses for the