Letters to the Editor 09-15-2006
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
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Editor, Times-Union:Your help is needed to stop the lake homeowners associations, the Area Plan Commission and your elected county commissioners from approving a plan to keep you off the lakes you pay to maintain.
The plan commission voted on Sept. 6 to approve the "anti-funneling" issue that you've heard about (front page Sept. 7), but you still know so little about. This concerns you if you use the lakes and/or might want to in the future, or maybe buy a lot in a nice subdivision and build a home with lake access, or maybe like to see good industry come here to offer good jobs.
The anti-funneling amendment effectively stops all off-water, lake access subdivision and affordable condominium development etc. around our lakes. You are being accused, if you were to have lake access lots, of being polluters, noisy, unsanitary, and if you walked to the lake from your home it would create parking problems. They state that there are plenty of lake access points on the lakes. Lakes Tippecanoe, Oswego, James (Little Tippecanoe), Big and Little Barbee, Secrist, Irish, Banning, Sawmill, Hoffman, Ridinger, Silver Lake, Yellow Creek (the more well-known) have no public access. There are several others, too. Those few that do have only one and with one exception (Wawasee) none appear to have more than 14 parking spaces.
The waterfront homeowners have numerous boats docked on their piers, but they don't want you on their lakes.
I love our lakes, too. This is just bad policy, there is a better way and I've posed it to the commissioners.
The amendment doesn't address the real problem of septics leaching into our beautiful lakes. You and your boats are not the problem. Please voice your opposition or questions by contacting the county commissioners at: Avis Gunter, [email protected]; Brad Jackson, [email protected]; Ron Truex, [email protected]
Show this to all your neighbors and take action now. The county commissioners meet Tuesday at 9 a.m., on the third floor of the old courthouse to consider passing this amendment.
Edd Habegger, via e-mail
Leesburg
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- Call To Action
Call To Action
Editor, Times-Union:Your help is needed to stop the lake homeowners associations, the Area Plan Commission and your elected county commissioners from approving a plan to keep you off the lakes you pay to maintain.
The plan commission voted on Sept. 6 to approve the "anti-funneling" issue that you've heard about (front page Sept. 7), but you still know so little about. This concerns you if you use the lakes and/or might want to in the future, or maybe buy a lot in a nice subdivision and build a home with lake access, or maybe like to see good industry come here to offer good jobs.
The anti-funneling amendment effectively stops all off-water, lake access subdivision and affordable condominium development etc. around our lakes. You are being accused, if you were to have lake access lots, of being polluters, noisy, unsanitary, and if you walked to the lake from your home it would create parking problems. They state that there are plenty of lake access points on the lakes. Lakes Tippecanoe, Oswego, James (Little Tippecanoe), Big and Little Barbee, Secrist, Irish, Banning, Sawmill, Hoffman, Ridinger, Silver Lake, Yellow Creek (the more well-known) have no public access. There are several others, too. Those few that do have only one and with one exception (Wawasee) none appear to have more than 14 parking spaces.
The waterfront homeowners have numerous boats docked on their piers, but they don't want you on their lakes.
I love our lakes, too. This is just bad policy, there is a better way and I've posed it to the commissioners.
The amendment doesn't address the real problem of septics leaching into our beautiful lakes. You and your boats are not the problem. Please voice your opposition or questions by contacting the county commissioners at: Avis Gunter, [email protected]; Brad Jackson, [email protected]; Ron Truex, [email protected]
Show this to all your neighbors and take action now. The county commissioners meet Tuesday at 9 a.m., on the third floor of the old courthouse to consider passing this amendment.
Edd Habegger, via e-mail
Leesburg
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