DNR performance art: NR 115 is an act of oppression

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...The goal here is obvious. The DNR is simply offering a plan to do away with development completely within the shoreland zone, and everything else is political rhetoric.

The idea is to make development legal but so expressive it’s not practical especially, I believe, for existing properties within the 75-foot setback ‘I can’t wait to see those matrixes.

Mr. Hassett may have opined in his memo to the :NRB that the DNR had recognized the lifetime investments of law-abiding citizens, but he slipped when he followed that language with these words: ‘This proposal still has the goal of ultimate compliance".

And what is ultimate compliance? In Mr. Hassett’s own words; "it’s elimination".

This truth is, this new proposal is no doubt the most onerous draft yet, for it extends the regulatory reach of the ‘DNR, with its aim of elimination, farther than the department has ever dared to go; with vast restrictions beyond the 7SJoot setback.

In effect, this is the beginning of an effort to move the setback itself to 300 feet and the new restrictions, if passed, amount to a de facto partial move of the setback line, a precursor to an actual and formal 300-foot ‘setback.

People should know that that has been a goal for - many years, and so this should come as no surprise. As far back as 1988, the department developed a model ordinance and mission language calling for no net increase of impervious surfaces within 300 feet of the shoreline without 100 percent mitigation.