Buying back our waterway access points ++

[MuskieBait]

You'll rapidly bankrupt the MNR quickly with this...

For example...

A lake side property on any of the Muskoka lake is in the multimillion dollar range. Even a small rustic cottage on the shore of Lake Muskoka will cost $1 mil. You just want to buy land to create access...

In urban areas, even, for example sake, a river side property on an eastern trib, you're looking at several hundred thousand dollars.

Practically, how many plots of land can be purchased per year with that cost?

And also to be considered...where do we pick these locations to buy back from property owners?

Remember, just because it is the government, it doesn't mean you'll get it at a discounted price either. If I have some prime waterfront property, I'll be selling it to the highest bidder...and I'm a fishing enthusiast. The average property owner will do the same as well. You'll not be buying the property at a discount rate...worse, you may be getting it at a premium just because it's the government and all the bureaucracy that goes along with it...

It's an interesting idea, but not feasible at all...

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Here's an idea...

Enact a legislation that guarantees public access to waterfront areas in ALL FUTURE development. Developers are required to maintain a public access corridor of a certain width of public land at the fringe of their development plot that allows for access to launch boats, snowmobiles, or for anglers to fish from shore. These access can be left fallow...or MNR can take the responsibility to develop these areas with public launches and/or fishing areas.

On lakes that is being annexed into land for private sale, the government is required to appropriate certain plots of land for public access in similar manner. This can be calculated as a percentage of land intended for private ownership (for example...of the aggregated area land around the lake intended for private ownership, 0.1% of that land should be reserved for public access).

It is hard to look back and change the past...better to change the future.