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1. Savage Lake has “dried up” in the earlier days. 2. It is a bad investment considering few would use it when Gervais Lake has public access open to a huge recreational area for comparison. Shoreline privacy issues. Glad to hear it is still Savage Lake. Let it be Rocky. This public access would be right next to my house and yard. I’m concerned about my safety and property especially as to trespassing and trash. Also concerned about motorized noises. Please give consideration to the old gas station site at SW corner of Little Canada Road and 35E. Vehicle access for parking is already available with room for toilet/trash amenities. An extensive shoreline to work with, in fact that maybe is a spot to do wetland restoration. As an example as to what a shoreline could become – maybe like Lake Phalen. The lake is too weedy to kayak through between June and September. We don’t want to encourage snowmobiling on the lake – the island should be protected from more snowmobiling. I don’t care what you do as long as I don’t have to pay for it!! City needs to keep up what they started and not keep adding – too much cost to maintain. My parents, Roy & Carol Nadeau, Jr. donated the land to make Nadeau Park. I talked to my mother about access to Savage Lake. She said the idea of a park was for neighborhood children to have a place to play away from the lake and adjacent ponds so parents would not need to worry about their children drowning. My family is against the proposal. The park was donated by Roy to be used as a nature area only. I am in favor of protecting the wild life turkeys and deer. There is Gervais – this lake is too small & full of weeds. We are fortunate to live in an area with many lakes which already have public access areas. The Savage Lake area, the small roads, narrow roads, and lack of any place to park would make this seem a burden on the people who live here. On weekends, when neighbors and children are using the Nadeau Wildlife area, the Nadeau Wildlife area, the street can become very busy with cars and pedestrians. It is a nice kind of busy and the area is working. If Savage is opened to boat traffic, it would open it to cars and trucks pulling trailers and soon it could be a giant pain in the neck. People will not be bringing a canoe in on a car, but a trailer. I don’t know what a small craft is being spoken about, but the people I know with canoes expect to back their trailers directly into a lake. Many of the canoes have trolling motors. Are motor boats small craft? I think we should spend more time on conserving the wildlife area. Little Canada has already cleared out a major source of winter food for the birds & animals. That was the high bush cranberries that had been planted by the first people who lived in my home. I believe we owe it to the Neadeau’s to take care of the area and honor their generosity by not turning it into a parking space for the use of “small craft”. The other problems would be policing the lake, keeping the lakeshore clean, preventing the public from using the backyards of the neighbors who reside on the shore. Can’t we just allow this tiny little area for the use of the children, their parents, and other walkers and neighbors? Can’t we just allow it to be for the wildlife and the playing children or are we too selfish???