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• Margaret Coldiron says:

  November 12, 2009 at 5:10 pm

  Thanks for posting this–it is most interesting. I’m glad they have publicised the plight of retired folks whose leases are jumping up by 400%–I think the leaseholders who were interviewed made a good case. I’m irritated that the DNRC is still giving figures for lease rates that are significantly lower than those some of us are paying even now. Moreover, there remains a problem for “cabin owners” whose properties are “recreational” because the implication persists (even in this report) that we are all privileged and wealthy, and therefore can afford (and somehow deserve to pay) astronomical lease rates. But this is wrong. Yes, my property is recreational and will remain so because I can’t afford to winterize my 60-year-old cabin (which would actually mean tearing the existing cabin down and building something new, which is not something any leaseholder would do now, even if they could afford it!) Should that not be a mitigating consideration rather than something that justifies higher lease rates?

  My neighbour, Alan Davis, has figured out what our lease rates on Placid Lake will be under the new system, based on the DNRC’s figures, and it is pretty frightening–within 2 years the lease rate on my cabin will nearly double (from ca. $7000 per year to nearly $14,000 per year) and then will rise by $1,000 every year thereafter. Now, leaving aside the fact that these figures are SIGNIFICANTLY higher than the figures the DNRC is giving to the press, how CAN such increases be right or justifiable? I am also on a fixed income and this rise will take my whole income–all of it. So I could be forced to try to sell in 2 years’ time unless we can do something about this. And who is going buy a 60 year-old summer cabin with questionable plumbing with a lease rate like that?

  What can we do to make the case for recreational cabin site lesees?

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