Board limits tree-cutting along lakes

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ^ | November 23, 2004 | Scott Williams

[Chummy]

"'We may think we own it, but we really don't'..."

This, my fellow FReepers and citizens, is the comment of an elected official representing not a hamlet in the former Soviet Union or one of its satellites but rather a community in southeastern Wisconsin in 2004.

And worse, the majority of this Board apparently agreed with such misguided sentiment.

[steveo]

The new ordinance requires property owners to pay $80 for a permit to remove trees along a lakefront.

Yup... there you go!

[pipecorp]

Been like this in ME for a long time.

[Chummy]

Without checking, my hunch is that's going to be $80 per tree, alive or dead, and "dead" will require an additional expenditure to certify the tree is bereft of life, ceases to exist, etc. (with apologies to Monty Python's Flying Circus)

Just a hunch.

[fso301]

There's a certain validity to the rule. If someones property is cleared right to the waters edge, they'll tend to fertilize right to the waters edge. The resulting runoff will cause algae blooms.

[microgood]

"We may think we own it, but we really don't," Kipp said.

So I guess we thing we pay property taxes, but we really don't?

[Cobra64]

On Lake James, NC in Burke County, the current covenents are 125 foot setback from the Lake. When we built here last year it was a 65 foot setback.

[Cobra64]

And encourage shoreline erosion. Folks need to understand the reasoning behind some of these ideas. Some are unreasonable, but that is a qualitative term.

[meyer]

Time for some midnight chainsaw civil disobedience. Cut 'em all down.

[brooklin]

What we taught in colege, is that you don't own it until the judge says that you own it. Then you get to pay taxes.

[brooklin]

colege= college, spellcheck is your friend

[Chummy]

Presumed tendency should not trump private property rights.

Folks can generally think for themselves pretty well, given the opportunity.

[Chummy]

A covenant between private property owners is not the same as a setback ordinance enforced by a unit of government. That may explain this difference?

[Chummy]

Was that the Colege of Karl Marx?

[brooklin]

Legal aspects of surveying.

[brooklin]

Oh, and they prof that taught the class, was no liberal.

[rudypoot]

I'm from the government and I am here to help.

[larryjohnson]

My Maine town is after us with similar regs.

[farmfriend]

"This, to me, is over-regulation," Supervisor Karl Nilson of New Berlin said.

You think that is over regulation? Try moving out west!!!

Rights, farms, environment ping.
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