To Whom It May Concern;…

To Whom It May Concern;

There is nothing worse than paying $10,000 in taxes (for snow plough, roads and garbage pick up) to sit on your dock with a coffee in your hand and see the dump right there in front of you. The floating houses anchored to crown land are an eye sore. To top it off their grey water goes into the lake and they are moored there for months on end. That is just ecologically wrong. At least a boat dumps grey water in various places, not all in the same location for such a long time.

I have been living on Little Lake, in Port Severn, for 6 years now and cottaged here since 1969. I have always cherished our view of the lake and the cottages that tend to blend into the shoreline. These floating houses are monstrous, ugly sights that inhibit the beauty of the area. I now pay $10,000 a year to look at a dump.

There are reasons we have trailer parks and large cruisers. Trailers are not meant to be on water and cruisers are not permanent fixtures. Theses floating boxes need to be on land not in our faces.

I am begging you to create legislation to ban floating houses from our shorelines in cottage country. If they want to find some secluded lake way up north where people are not paying taxes, and they all live in these boxes, then by all means have them go there, but please do not allow them to anchor in plain sight of tax paying cottages. It is ruining the essence of cottage country.