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(h,.,(\~~\ ~ --/3-9 ~(\\~- ~ (~.~ ~~ Ja\tz. ~ CARMEN BELL 807 HEINEL DRIVE ROSEVILLE MN 55113 r . March 8, 1995 . , ;..; U! , ~..:/! Roseville City Council 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville MN 55113 RE: LAKE OPiASSO USE Dear Council Members: The Roseville City Council has asked for homeowners' input on certain Roseville ordinances regulating uses on Lake Owasso. The following is my recommendation. I am urging the City Council to take no action. I recommend that the present ordinances regulating the uses on Lake Owasso remain as they are. I agree that the present rules and regulations affecting the lake are inconsistent. However, the present state statutes delegating authority to various governmental units to promulgate rules are a mess. Some of the responsibilities are given to the Department of Natural Resources, some given to the local cities, and some of the responsibilities given to the local sheriffs. Tbe sheriffs typically are not in a position to decide what the proper use of a lake is or is not. The sheriffs are law enforcement agencies and tbe present state laws giving them certain authority to approve or not approve certain types of uses is ridiculous. However, the City of Roseville can do nothing about that. I am however, sending a copy of this letter to all of our local legislators and perbaps they will address the problem. The regulations affecting a local lake should be made primarily by some local unit of government that is directly responsible politically to the citizens that are using the lake. In many occasions it might well be a municipality, or for larger lakes, it might well be a county. The issue that concerns most of the residents that live on the south end of Lake Owasso is not what the so-called -no-wake- zone is. The local residents do not want an additional slalom ski course. There is already one on the lake. The ski course is used by a limi ted number of people, and an additional ski course would only intimidate other uses of the lake. Unfortunately, the state legislature has apparently given the authority to approve or disapprove such slalom course to the local sheriff. I hope our legislators change that law. In the meantime, however, the sheriff apparently is taking the position that if Roseville and Shoreview have inconsistent ordinances on the so-called -no-wake- zone that he will not issue any permits for additional slalom courses. In other words, with the so-called 300 foot rule that now exists in Roseville a slalom course would be impossible. If that is what it takes to prevent a slalom course, we urge you to please leave the 300 foot rule in effect.