Proposed shoreland changes meet fierce opposition

From the Lakeland Times

...Jay Verhulst, a Vilas County supervisor, said the DNR had simply failed to listen to the people.
"As a result, you have come up with a draft that overreaches and attempts to overcome existing statutes and existing case law," Verhulst said.

Verhulst also questioned the credibility of the agency's science and said the DNR was attempting to fold other administrative rules into NR115 in an effort to transfer enforcement responsibility from the agency to counties.

"You are not creating a minimum standard but a strict zoning ordinance and that is not your statutory [responsibility]," he said.

Verhulst said there should be no revision so long as the proposed rule exempts incorporated areas and he said the effort would end up in litigation if the agency forced its will upon the people.

"I guess you are daring us to take you to court, and that is a pitiful thing for a state agency to do," he said.