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OFFICE OF THE CORPORATION COUNSEL Burnett County 7410 County Road K, #121 715/349-2168 Siren, WI 54872 Fax 715/349-2103 David L. Grindell Corporation Counsel dgrindell@burnettcounty.or January 15, 2021 Keyon Brown Husch Blackwell LLP 120 South Riverside Plaza, Ste 2200 Chicago IL 60606 Re: Voyager Village Common Ground Management Plan Dear Attorney Brown: I apologize for having been delayed in getting back to you regarding the above referenced matter, but I wanted to schedule a meeting with Jason to discuss exactly what the issues were, and what we have from a stand-point of Burnett County. Your email of December 21, 2020, did not include the changes that occurred with Voyager Village Property Owners Association. In June of 2002, Voyager Village Property Owners Association applied for a petition for zoning amendment that effected their property in the Towns of Jackson, Scott and Webb Lake. The amendment incorporated a residential-recreation plan drawn by the Voyager Village Property Owners Association and indicated that all the property would be subject to the residential-recreation plan, if the amendment was adopted. This plan, as stated in the application, effected water front property, including the recreational trails, swimming areas, dock locations, marina areas, mooring slips and beach houses in all of the lakes owned by Voyager Village at the time. It specifically limited the number of mooring slips in each lake. Birch Island at the time had 18 slips. The residential-recreation plan that was presented and approved, as part of the approval of the petition for zoning, limited the number of docks to 30 on Birch Island. Similarly, it limited the use of all other lakes owned by Voyager Village. At this point, it would seem to me that absent a change in the agreement Voyager Village entered into with Burnett County when the zoning amendment was adopted, we cannot authorize any use of the property that would violate Voyager Village's own residential- recreation plan, as provided to us, as a basis for approving of the amendment.