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Issues with Prior....


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Took a look in the trailer lot on Monday afternoon and counted 12 vehicles without trailers parked on the beach end of the lot - Obviously, beach users. People seem to be doing it more, unfortunately....

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Man, that is just pathetic. I really wish our DNR or police would do something about that.

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Ok, now this really gets me. Usually I don't have that big of a problem with getting a spot at Prior, but this past weekend I had to pay 20.00 on Sat and Sun to park my truck and trailer in the beach parking. First of all a car costs 5.00 so if i only take two spots with my truck and trailer, why the 20.00? Also there were 3 cars parked in the free trailer lot, one parked single in a double trailer spot. That just irks me.....I don't mind paying to park, but the 20.00 seemed like a little price goudging to me and no penalty for those parking card in the trailer lot is ridiculous... mad.gif

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Toonfish, contact the city, specifically city council, the more of us who complain, the more likely they will get off their duffs and work with the DNR on this situation

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I emailed the dnr and a Dan Breva replied with this,

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Parking at Public Water Accesses is often a problem. What we do is at accesses where there are parking stalls for both single vehicles and for vehicles with trailers, we ask that single vehicles park in the single vehcile stalls and vehicles with trailers use only the long pull-through sites designed for that use.

At Accesses where there are only long parking stalls, we cannot limit the parking to vehciles with trailers only in that a person using a car top boat or a canoe has equal opportunity to use the access parking as a person with a trailer. Also, a person trailering in a boat may have a friend who drives there to go with them on the boat and they are permitted to park at the access.

We know there is often more demand than capacity and that is why we look for additional opportunities to develop more water accesses.


However he forgot the part about the access I pointed out as being posted so I am not sure they will do anything.

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have you contacted the local officer? Adam Block is his name. I contacted him about another issue (electronic predator calls) and he did contact his superiors. I had a couple good conversations with him, seems like a nice guy. Maybe start at the bottom, I bet Mr. Breva has no idea they posted that sign on the Dewitt access

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I hope to see the city/DNR do something about this issue but I am not expecting much.

I have figured out a way around this issue and it involves rollerblades and some people confused as to why i park a trailer on their road :-)

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The city already has said they won't do a thing since it is the DNR's parking lot. That was confirmed in an email to me from Frank Boyles, city manager

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Question...if a person parks on the grass in the parking lot, will the city or the DNR ticket you??? I didn't think the DNR has ticketing authority over vehicle violations. Just something to think about.

By the way...I really appreciate all your guys's effort to increase the accesability and bring awareness to prior and other local lakes!!!

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I see this all the time at the Prior lot.....sometimes I applaud the creativity, but then you get the (Contact Us Please) that parks half his trailer/truck up on the curb and the other half sits out to far in the turnaround and you cant get by him if you are pulling a bigger boat......I had to back up all the way from the end of the parking lot.... mad.gif

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The city already has said they won't do a thing since it is the DNR's parking lot. That was confirmed in an email to me from Frank Boyles, city manager


Just goes to show what a (Contact Us Please) Frank is, Last night I counted 16 cars at the sand point access. Sign says for access users only. I did watch a women with 5 kids walk from the beach to the access and get in their suburban and leave. The local CO and authorities need to monitor this more and why does Frankie not want the $5 from these people?

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Can we start an "on-line" petition and send it to them? It is ridiculuos that they are allowed to do this!

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