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	Name:	Aussie77 -
	Subject:	Quickest way to see more laws?
	Date:	4/13/2008 8:42:33 PM

I don't think the poster got the point being made about the car and the rules and restrictions etc.

I do agree with what an earlier poster stated. We have many laws in place to deal with boaters that are unruly and being to noisey, driving to fast or too close to the shore. The "issues" that we are having are covered under current rules and regulations that are not being enforced. Why do we want to pass new rules that have absolutely no chance of being enforced?

The boat law was proposed by Senator Dial in response to some developers wanting to create a large resort with homes a golf corse and a ritz carlton style hotel on Lake Harris similar to the resort they built called Reynolds Plantation in Georgia. They wanted assurances that no large boats or house boats would be allowed on the lake. Alabama Power has more than 70% of the land and the developers would need some of that land to build the resort. With Georgia growing the way that it is and Lake Lanier drowing with over 1000 houseboats. As we all know the boat ban lost the vote to keep all 11 land locked lakes covered as Alabama Power originally wanted. You see that Martin, Harris(Wedowee) and Weiss the three that made the cut are all the closest to the Georgia border. Looks like Southern Company sees HUGE potentional for our beautiful little lake. If you do not like the few large boats that grace our waterways you will certainly not like what is to come.

I for one love the cottages and the families and don't mind what anyone drives. As long as someone is curteous and respectful then that is great!
I think we will soon see a lot more condos and crowding. A poster in another thread mentioned he wanted things to go back to the way they were "on golden pond style". But who determines that? was it he who had been there since 1980? or the guy next door how had been there since the 60's?

The fact is this boat ban has nothing to do with big boats or fast boats or erosian or pollution or anything like that.