Longtime cottagers call them \u0027water squatters\u0027 and say they will transform their high\u002Dpriced lakes.
The day Nimens first floated his prototype out onto the water, phones in the Township of Georgian Bay started ringing. “People in the area couldn’t believe this contraption,” said the township’s mayor, Peter Koetsier, who, on Friday morning, was heading into a virtual meeting about floating cottages. “People thought, innocently, it would be deemed illegal, and removed from the waters within a day,” Koetsier said. “Here we are, a couple of years later.
Some cottagers, who have spent millions in real estate costs for their precious lakefront views, would prefer they were not just off grid, but off away, altogether. No one is trying to ban float homes or float cottages, said Claude Ricks, co-chair of the Gloucester Pool Cottagers’ Association in Muskoka Lakes District. “It’s about finding a place for them,” like Bluffer’s Park, where the dwellings are essentially permanently moored in the marina. “You can’t put a motor on it, you can’t go navigate Lake Ontario, you’ve got to park and stay there,” Ricks said.
Ricks and Cheryl Elliot-Fraser, president of the Gloucester Pool Cottagers’ Association, have launched a letter-writing campaign and petitions; they’re asking municipalities to look at creating resolutions “that basically say this is an untenable situation, you need to change the definition from vessel to float home, because we can’t manage it otherwise,” and are reaching out to MPs “to go cajole, knock on the door, whatever they do in Ottawa to tell , ‘this is not kid stuff, their constituents...
It’s not about regulating architectural design, or colour. The lakes have everything from the most recent glass-cube design to 135-year-old cottages, he said. “We’re talking about setback from the waterfront. We’re talking about not disguising it but leaving a strong canopy of trees around the built form so that it isn’t the dominant thing you see in the landscape.Article contentThey could also become navigational hazards if not carefully maneuvered and anchored.
Some customers want to be in Lake Eerie, he said. “Some people want to be in Lake Ontario. It’s not like there’s going to be three or four, or 10 or 20 of them in one spot. Nobody’s interested in that.”
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