Petition requesting city council deny Boatworks’ application to exceed city’s maximum building height

Please deny the variance request.The beach area is a vital asset to Wayzata and would be adversely affected by this variance.

Please keep with the building height restriction. It's what many persons feel is the right thing to do.

There should not be favor shown to one development when all others have been restricted!

Please leave that Charming city alone!

This is overpowering the shores of charming Wayzata.

It will definitely impact the environment. Keep Wayzata shoreline beautiful. The rules were made for building height restrict for a reason.

Vote No

No aesthetic reason for variance from community accepted ordinance

Let's not destroy the Lake view for all of us. We need to stay with our current rules and not further destroy the beauty and popularity of our wonderful little city.

I am against this proposal

ABSOLUTELY NOT! It is not what the people you represent want. Please do not become part of the same old story, profits before preservation.

The existing 35’ height limits should be maintained and NOT be exceeded.

When I was a young boy, I walked from my home in the Highlands to Wayzata beach and played on the sand. Now as an old man I drive from my home in Long Lake to Wayzata beach and then paddle away to Spirit Island and beyond. Sometimes while returning to the beach I sit still in my canoe off shore and imagine people who lived nearby long ago, paddling their canoes home to the beach after a day of hunting, fishing, exploring. I feel grateful for having in my life a place of so much wonder. Seasons change, of course. But we can stop unnecessary change. And we must stop anyone from diminishing, by their own personal gain, such a place of wonder for today’s children and for tomorrow’s elders. Please say yes to this place of wonder with your firm NO to the Boatworks project.

Please do not pass this variance, unfair to all the other property owners in Wayzata.

My husband and I have lived in Wayzata for 38 years and have raised three children here. We use the beach all the time. We have seen way way too much development in the name of big money. Our movie theater taken away, Candlelight Floral demolished, the original old bank building gone!!! Please, please do not take the one last thing we have left.... our wonderful Wayzata Beach. Money isn't everything.... we live on Rice Street and we have endured enough of the constant traffic from the condos and office buildings that are being built all around us!!! Let's keep our city what we have always enjoyed.... small-town charm!!

No, no, NO!!! How awful it would be to have that right on the water! Our lovely depot, beach, and lakefront will be dwarfed and ruined forever.

This is absolutely the worst idea I have ever heard. (Well, other than the previous sumissions for this project.) Please don't do it!

This is a terrible idea. Shame on the greed.

I oppose this request. Do NOT go down this slippery slope. There is no need whatsoever for the Boatworks project to deviate from the zoning rules that have been in place and followed for decades.

Keep it small. Wayzata would not be able to go back once this was done. There would be another one that would like to do the same but this time it would be a 5 story. You have already added the Meyer building, do we need more people in a small area? Social Distance the town. Less is more.