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	Name:	MotorMan -
	Subject:	too much tree removal
	Date:	6/13/2007 5:18:20 PM

I'm certain Lake Martin can handle the boat traffric. The big thing is the shoreline tree removal. I would like to have the new buildings set back from the water so far, it is hard to see them. I would propose that there be a certain minimum amount of lake frontage per unit. Let's start with 200 feet but make denser allowances if the houses are clustered, far from the lake or otherwise use less disruptive comstruction practices.

Here's how Mr. Murphy of Murphy Lake planned it:
100 units on a 50 acre, electric motor, only lake. Gate house. 50 back lots with homes made of brick or stone set well back from the road. Paved golf carts paths to the rec area. One condo building of 18 units on the water with a common dock for 50 boats, pool, and rec building. Most of the lake shore would remain wooded. Eight clusters of four home clusters. Each home cluster would have a dock just big enough for four boats for the four houses. Very little tree removal near the eight docks. So, only one big condo - dock area and eight little docks with paved golf carts paths leading back to their respective homes.

This on about a mile of lake frontage. Only 50 feet of frontage per unit but the lake front was to be almost pristine. It wound up 180 degrees away from that and it now has houses on top of each other with residents complaining about the other guy's building being too unsightly.

A condo building on lake Martin could be restricted in a similiar way. Say a land owner has 800 feet of frontage but most of it is too steep to perk or build. In the one area in the back where it is out of sight, the condo building could be built.

Lots of things to come up with like this.

Waukesha County, Wisconsin does it this way:
150 foot frontage minium and a housing limit of 10% of land area but 15% if you follow more restrictive building practices. So, a lot of 150x200 or 30,000 sq ft could have a 3000 sq ft house but 4500 if it had an approved plan. Plans would have to show what trees are there and how they would be replaced when hit by lightning or just died of old age.

I have been out in front of Pleasure Point Marina at noon on a weekday and there was not a boat in sight. The lake in NOT crowded by other State's standards. Many more crowded lakes have to put in things like clockwise water skiing. Speed boats one day, fish boats the next.

The bad thing about so much new construction is everyone wants a big warer view with a 6000 sq ft house right next to the water.