[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

[sergeantdave]

Fascism - government control of private property.

People have been so dumbed down they don't know what fascism is. Every one of these fascists should be tarred and feathered and run out of town. I've had it up to my eyeballs with politicians and bureaucrats telling property owners what they can and can't do with their property. If I owned a newspaper there the headline would be: "Fascists Steal Land Along Lakeshore." Damn pigs.

Waukesha County used to be a conservative stronghold. Soon it will look like liberal Milwaukee.

[patriot_wes]

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

all your land are berong to us!