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1 The 1920s signaled the end of the railroad era and beginning of the automobile era. The Leech Lake <br />2 Trail was improved as Highway 371, connecting Pequot's lakes to Brainerd and the Twin Cities. <br />3 Automobile travel along this highway spurred major growth in resorts and lake home development in <br />4 Pequot Lakes from 1924 to 1970. Approximately 88 percent of the total seasonal and permanent lake <br />5 homes (including resorts) in Pequot Lakes were built over the course of that time (Table 1), <br />6 essentially privatizing the lakeshores and bottling them off from the public. In 1940, the village of <br />7 Pequot changed its name to Pequot Lakes as a symbol of the importance of its lakes and resort <br />s business. <br />9 In 2002, the City of Pequot Lakes merged with the surrounding Sibley Township to form a <br />10 combined, greater Pequot Lakes. In the near decade since the merger, approaches that were separate <br />11 — such as land use regulation -- have been blended while others — such as the Parks Committee and <br />12 Economic Development Committee — are new entities created by the merged City. This plan builds <br />13 on the work that has been done by public officials and active citizens, both prior to the merger and <br />14 after. <br />15 <br />DRAFT —April 2011 5 1 P a g e <br />