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CULLEN LAKES ASSOCIATION P.O. Box 466,Nisswa,MN 56468 September 22, 2014 Dawn Bittner Pequot Lakes Zoning Administrator 4638 County Road 11 Pequot Lakes, MN 56472 Dear Ms. Bittner: The Cullen Lakes Association's Land Development Committee has reviewed the 8/26/2014 Lighting and Vegetation Plan submitted to the City by Wilderness Resort Villas and would like to share its thoughts and concerns with you and the Planning Commission members. General *To require a plan such as this is good,but to keep it from simply collecting dust on a shelf it should have an implementation schedule that is reviewed on a regular basis and enforced. Lighting *The inland lights should be no taller than absolutely necessary and positioned so that the required downcast lighting not create light pollution in the night sky. *Special care should be taken regarding the shoreline lighting. Its downcast lighting needs to be kept low to the ground so as to minimize its visibility from the lake and opposite shores. Can it be turned on as needed for dock and boat ramp usage instead of being on from dusk to dawn? Stairways for Units 27-34 Section 17-5.11 D.(5) of the Ordinance states: " Stairways, lifts and landings must be located in the most visually inconspicuous portions of lots, as viewed from the surface of the public water assuming summer, leaf-on conditions, whenever practical." *Could these units not use the two paths shown on the site plan to access the shoreline rather than have their own private route,mostly down a steep slope,to the lake? *If you deem these private stairways to be reasonable and necessary, could they not be consolidated to two instead of four? 50' corridor openings Section 17-7.9 C of the Ordinance states: "All vegetative alterations are subject to the following