As a senior citizen living…

As a senior citizen living in Erieau, I believe the cottages should be allowed to remain in Rondeau and the land sold to them at prices equivalent to Erieau land prices. We pay 6,000. in taxes for a fifty foot lot. They got off cheap for many years. Cottages rent out for over a thousand a week here for tiny places. 10,000 a month for larger places on the water.
Our father took us to the beaches of Erieau and Rondeau as kids from Chatham. What great memories.
We were lucky to have inherited our place or we wouldn't be retired here like many others. Rondeau owners should have the same opportunities.
I do not really believe the cottages there contribute as much to the economy as they state simply due to the facts that many owners are in Chatham and surrounding areas and people farther away bring the supplies with them to the cottage anyhow. Who wants to go to the cottage and have to go shopping first? Many people live full time in Rondeau, are not cottagers. I knew this from working at Elections Canada. I also know that many of the owners there took over much more than their lots, clearing out to the beach and beside their lots.
The simple fact that they have been there for such a long period of time should just let them continue to stay, like a squatter's rights but they were allowed in the first place, encouraged even.
Out of town visitors here always want to go to Rondeau to walk the trails. We never go due to the cost of entry.
I saw previous comments about Fowlers Toads. If you are so concerned about them, beach goers should be banned as the toads live at the water's edge and burrow under the sand in the day. They must be getting stomped on daily. I won't walk the beach at night as there are so many of them I am afraid of stepping on them.
The only place I have seen deer in Rondeau is in people's yards. There are too many of them there too so they have to kill them. (cull they like to call it).
That's my two cents worth.
I am curious why you are even taking opinions. I assume you just go with the majority as politicians do.