Name:   dogleg - Subject:   From bad to worse news! Date:   7/9/2019 12:24:06 PM

We’ve had a house on the southeastern send of the lake since 1961. For most of my life, the southern end has been the less developed, less crowded part of the lake. Somewhere around the lake house is a pamphlet published by APCO and Russel Lands in the late 1970s or so, that contained propaganda about how special Lake Martin is. It discussed how policies put in place by both entities, specifically the intention to maintain over 50% of lake front property undeveloped and to not allow multi-family properties, condos, on APCO/ RL lands on the lake......HA!.... the apparent exponential increase in boat traffic, idiots and drunks behind the wheel, and generally mean spirited behavior is directly proportional to the number of condos now on the lake, especially on the southeastern end. A cabin or mega mansion with say 200’ of lakefront May put two boats on the lake. For every 200’ lakefront associated with multi story condos such as at Still Waters or whatever  they call it today, one can expect 20 additional boats on the lake. It appears two more large complexes are underway at Still Waters and if they can cram any more in Blue Creek, I guess they will.

i know many may think, "it’s about making the lake accessable to more people. You already have a place here...you were new to the lake at onetime....yadda yadda" e originally paid $750.00 for a 15 year leas o an APCO lot and built, as required, a cabin....don’t know how much more blue collar accessible it could get. I know that’s not the deal now and property values have skyrocketed but the point is, this development is not about anything other than making big money and basically cashing in on an heirloom by destroying it.

Want to see the end result? To to lake Sinclair near Atlanta. Or better ye, come to the southern end around us and imagine the whole lake that way.