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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, October 23,2023 Page 4 access, and the staff report mentions there would be a permitting process for some limited access. He asked what the process might be. Mr. Johnson explained the access regarding the Tamarack portion, typically and historically,the City has had a few occasions with which the City has granted case- by-case access,usually as it relates to maintenance. The process is simply a request to him, the Parks and Recreation Director, and a permit will typically be granted with very narrow parameters such as must be done on such date,must be conducted at a speed of less than ten miles per hour, must access via an identified route to ensure the natural resources are not being endangered. There are two competing interests here in this specific instance where the City would absolutely need to regulate access because one of the concerns from the neighbors on the east side is people simply driving through the park and creating that pass through and so it could not be carte blanche. Additionally, any time there is public on a pathway, those people are inherently being invited in and run into the issue of the one driver that is driving through the alley looking through their phone or something like that while a kid is on their bike coming around the corner. Those are things that keep him up at night. He would say, again, on a case-by-case, if it is somebody who needs to pull in a boat once per fall and once per spring, if the resident can identify what the need, the access path and the day it is planned to be done, the Park and Recreation staff would certainly consider that. But,he thought it cannot go beyond that functionally without really deviating from what the City's approach to park pathways has been. Mayor Roe indicated he wanted to follow up on when staff allow people to use a pathway for such as putting a boat away or something like that, or maybe even if someone is putting a tree in are there any requirements about perhaps blocking off the pathway or signage to warn the public of that activity. Mr. Johnson explained historically it is a pass through and what the City has done is simply issue the resident a letter stating the exact time to go in and the exact time to leave. He noted he could think of one instance where there was someone who has actually had heavy equipment in there and that was exactly what the City signage was required to essentially identify that a hazard was coming ahead. Councilmember Etten asked if there were some ways the City can work to limit vehicle drive through. Mr. Freihammer explained there have been a few other pathways in the City that had the same issues, and some planter bollards and boulders were installed that can be moved if needed but to make it narrow so driving cannot be done on the pathway. Signage is also installed to make it clear that it is not a driving pathway. Public Comment