I would suggest we…

I would suggest we discourage cottages in the park as they take away from the park. I perceive their lease costs are also much much too low. Outside the park many cottage owners are paying property taxes greater than $10,000 per year. Not all these cottages are 4 seasons either.

I am opposed to the proposal to kick the can down the road and not resolve the issue, recognizing that their lease is way past due.

I would suggest that we change the park boudaries and let the cottages North east of the camping sites to be sold to the highest bidders. A smaller percentage of the sale proceeds could then be given back to the present owners of these cottages to enable them to buy the properties if desired. The funds can be used to enhance the park and its trails.

The other cottages in my perspective need to be discouraged from staying. This can be done by charging an aggresive lease costs and letting the leases go up double the rate of inflation. This would allow those who wish to stay to stay and the ones that feel the lease fee is too high to let their cottages come down. Overtime the cottages will be reduced and there would be no ultimatum to vacate and fight over this in 14 years. At the same time it is critical that we discourage present cottage lease holders in making major changes/expansion to their cottages.