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April 17,2008 Planning Commission minutes APPLICANT: Wilderness Resort Villas,LLC -kpplicant requests a Conditional Use Permit " ''Condition of approval #11: "The placement of the docks shall be done at the direction and recommendation of the Department of Natural Resources." Motion to approve the CUP carried unanimously. December 16, 2008 letter from Tim Brastrup,then Areas Fisheries Supervisor(since retired),to Dawn Bittner Excerpts from the letter: "I found that the three proposed mooring facilities would not involve the removal of emergent aquatic plants. ... The main docks at the two mooring facilities on the east side of the property would bisect the bulrushes, however, as stated by Mr. Miller,there would be no plant removal at these two facilities. The boat slips would be situated lakeward beyond the outer limits of the bulrush stands at both east side sites." "Since the boat slips will not be situated within the bulrush stands and the main docks will be installed over the top of the bulrushes, disturbance to the bulrush stands, and essential fish life cycles, as I anticipate, will be minimal. In the event that the lake water level drops and the bulrush stands expand further lakeward, the main docks should be extended so the boat slips are again not located within the emergent plant stands, ..." End of background facts. As you already know, WRV was cited by the DNR last year for removing a substantial number of bulrushes. So Mr. Miller's comment in line 3 of paragraph 1 is not true. Since the boat slips are within the bulrush stand nd water lilies for the second straight year,the last sentence in the first paragraph also is not the case. The CLA respectfully asks you to uphold condition#11 of the CUP approval and require WRV to extend its dock the necessary number of sections to place the boat mooring spaces lakeward, outside the stand of bulrush and outside the water lilies. As Mr. Mueller stated in his email to me, you are the only ones who can enforce this condition and thus the 2008 recommendation of the DNR, as per Tim Brastrup . Thank you for your consideration. Ann Beaver I I i