Please come out and let your voice be heard if you would like to save the integrity and beauty of the scenic road (a township road) formerly known as the Garfield Lake Road and have it be left alone.
On Monday, March 28 road inspection is at 1 p.m. with the public hearing at the Hart Lake town hall at 2 p.m. This is open to everyone. There have been many concerns with the proposal from two local realtors, which will affect the road and the entire line of beach which have all been used with permission for over 100 years. This, including by the original owner Gust Nyman, who drove by and visited with anyone there.
Another former owner put in a parking area. Hubbard County used if for several years, offering swimming lessons. Then, two realtors purchased some property. They want to close off and reroute a part of the road so they sell lots and make a huge profit. However, no one else profits.
Our town board originally voted no to doing anything. In fact, they planned on putting more parking spaces in when the realtors complained of people parking on the road. Those men don’t live here, have no interest in our community or contribute in any way other to contribute one lot to the county. Now the road on this end will have three 90 degree corners instead of one. The parking area will be almost two football fields away from the beach, for small children to walk to as well as cross the road by one of these corners, making that more of a danger than the current situation where there have never been any issues.
At one meeting one of the realtors suggested they might be putting in a campground RV park. How much traffic will that create? Many people that live on the lake as well as so many people around the area have used this lake and beach for so many years and have real concerns about what will happen here now.
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What will the impact be on this small, beautiful lake and the wetlands on the other side? Come and let your voices be heard.
Debbie Hadrava, Hart Lake Township resident
