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Master This Comment Date Who Made Comment List # Tables # look at the picnic area on a weekend to see what a great area Lake Owasso park and lake are to so many. I happen to live on the lake and bought specifically because there were no restrictions like Johanna. I own two homes on Lake Owasso and have been there for 23 years. I bought into a life style and have created life long friends and memories with my family. A no -wake zone would take away from that and would force me to move to another lake and I never thought or wanted that to happen. I hope to live on Lake Owasso for the next 23 years. Please do not allow a few people with a bad idea to effect the recreational life of so many. With the price of gas and more people staying close to home, Lake Owasso really is a terrific get away for many people in the surrounding area. 56 47 It occurred to several of us on the LOA Board (based on our August 18, 2011 letter) that someone could interpret that was written, that the City Engineers are not performing August 19, 2011 Lake Owasso to standards in our reference to Bennett Lake, Lady Slipper Park, and other settling pond. Association: submitted We in no way were attempting to infer that anyone in the Engineering Groups at either city are not performing to standards. Only (as in the case of Bennett Lake) for example by Joe Bester that there is a burden from decades ago that was inherited that has no easy answers. If you were designing a city from scratch, I am sure there are a lot of things that would be done differently in today's world regarding roads, railroad tracks, and disturbance to wetlands. Our comments on Bennett Lake, Lady Slipper Park and settling ponds is not Addendum to 8/13/11 a reference to a lack of performance from the Engineering Departments, but rather in reference to the unique and very challenging nature to manage these areas given their letter from Lake proximity to neighboring water bodies. Owasso Association 57 48 1 am an 11 year old living in Shoreview. Please don't put a No Wake Restriction on Lake Owasso. I enjoy tubing and learning how to ski with my family. You would take away a August 20, 2011 Mya Wood lot of the fun with your No Wake Law. 58 49 I'm a Shoreview resident and I would like to give my input on the proposed no wake restriction for Lake Owasso (south end of the lake is what I'm hearing) that is in the August 21, 2011 Eric Wood GLWMO draft. A no wake restriction does nothing for managing phosphorus levels in the lake. I have researched ways of managing phosphorus on line using studies done by universities and other cities from around the country including Minnesota and the DNR. I looked at hundreds of pages of documents and not one of them ever mentions a No Wake Restriction for a way of managing a phosphorus problem. Are you going to tell me there all wrong? They do say how ever that prevention is the best way to do it. Finding the Point Source and controlling it and then moving to the Non Point Sources and dealing with them. This seems like a much better way of spending time, money and resources on the problem. Spending time, money and resources for a no wake restriction takes away from the prevention side of things and creates a whole new set of problems. It is the wind that is the major contributing factor, not boats, that stir the sediment (phosphorus) and puts it into to the water column. A no wake restriction seems pointless because you can't stop the wind from blowing. Boats will still be able to run on the main body of the lake sending there waves rolling down the south end any ways. There is already a 150 foot restriction from the shoreline in place. This provides only a narrow corridor for boats to traverse the south end of the lake. This is more then sufficient. The only things a no wake restriction would do is to anger the thousands of people that enjoy the lake each season and ruin one of the best recreational lakes in the metro area. Not to mention anger the home owners on the lake who pay high property taxes. The LOA has already voted unanimously against the restriction. I think that's a pretty clear message. Please drop the No Wake Restriction from the draft. 59 50 1 was very alarmed when I learned of the proposed establishment of no boating /wake zones on Lake Owasso ( GLWMO 2011 Watershed Management Plan, Lake Owasso August 22, 2011 Michael Malvey Implementation Activity 1.9.f, pg 114). We all understand the need to manage lake health and no one is more concerned with the viability of a given lake than the lakeshore owners and nearby residents who frequent it. This would be extremely damaging in a number of areas — not the least of which is the potentially devastating financial impact to properties on and around the lake. We have seen unprecedented drops in property values over the last 5 years. Imposing use restrictions on Lake Owasso would only damage them further. Simply put, restricted use = loss of value. This has severe, immediate impact beyond the long -term investment value. Decreased value raises owners' debt to asset ratio which impacts ability to borrow. The decreased value of the home also puts existing HELOCs at risk. We recently had our ability to draw on an existing HELOC frozen due to the perceived drop in value. Grass Lake Watershed Management Organization — 2011 Watershed Management Plan Response to Comments: 60 -dav review period 9/19/2011 Page 6