Private Property blocking access to public land

[Gilroy]

C'mon now Gilly, not everyone can afford the luxury of owning waterfront property. There's thousands upon thousands of low income families and their only form of affordable recreation would be to access a lake and enjoy fishing or camping for a day. Most are appreciative of the chance to do so and do respect the local camp owners.

With due respect we are not talking about folk's who are respectful its the "other" one's who have no problems forcing in a ATV road, ripping up the land not owned by them. Then they think its OK to store their boats on another man's land for years, some of them not even moving for 3-4 years, probably stolen from some where else?

[trimmer21]

I am afraid to tell you in the example I gave there is no "20 feet from the high water mark" the lot has been surveyed and the neighbor owns the frontage all around his property. There is a shore allowance owned by the municipality on the south end of the lake.

Any surveyor who doesn't allow for the 20' from the high water mark has made a mistake when surveying a property and needs to be corrected. Surveyor's errors can cause no end of grief as what happened on the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron properties. As i mentioned before,the landowners went to court and lost. Landowners own the property. They do NOT own the lake.

[rick_iles]

With due respect we are not talking about folk's who are respectful its the "other" one's who have no problems forcing in a ATV road, ripping up the land not owned by them. Then they think its OK to store their boats on another man's land for years, some of them not even moving for 3-4 years, probably stolen from some where else?

Not to mention the huge amounts of garbage, people leave behind. We have a similar issue on Lake StClair. Guys cross private land to get to the lake, on foot. They leave lots of garbage behind, then wonder why the landowner limits or cuts off use of his property....

[Gilroy]

Any surveyor who doesn't allow for the 20' from the high water mark has made a mistake when surveying a property and needs to be corrected. Surveyor's errors can cause no end of grief as what happened on the Georgian Bay and Lake Huron properties. As i mentioned before,the landowners went to court and lost. Landowners own the property. They do NOT own the lake.

This particular lot runs north to south from the south side of the lake across the body of the lake to take in the shoreline on the north side of the lake, so it is a 50 acre parcel. The north half of the parcel has always been marked as Crown land which would give access to the Lake save and except when the survey was run five years ago the owner of the south half confirmed he owned all the lake frontage on the Crown side . There is a shore allowance of 66 feet on the east side of the Lake.