LIVING HERE
Mr. Pollard, of Symphony Bay development, is at it again.
This developer has gotten it through his thick skull that impact fees are coming back to Lake Geneva. Impact fees he got Jim Conners, the former mayor, to forgive him in building the little boxes travesty of what Symphony Bay has become. Now, he’s attempting to annex the property he bought, adjoining the current rambling mess of Symphony Bay, that’s just outside the city limits. If he’s successful at pulling off this annexation then he can quickly apply to build two hundred more homes before the city can move to reinstate the impact fees developers should have to pay for things like greenspace, traffic control devices and other infrastructure necessities.
Mr. Pollard, like Mr. Shodeen, is a pure developer and not even partially a good citizen. These people drive the expenses of their projects off the shoulders of the regular tax-paying and mostly hard-working or retired citizens. The city, especially under its current leadership, wants the property taxes the properties will bring in. How does the public get the attention of this leadership to stop the community from being fleeced? It won’t be in time for this one but for the next one’s still coming there’s the next election early in 2024.
Vote in the coming election and vote using your memory of past conduct.
The lowering of Geneva Lake.
If you haven’t taken note, the lake has gone down a good twelve inches in a matter of weeks. The drought being experienced in Southern Wisconsin is also occurring over the Mississippi River all the way up to its head waters in Itasca State Park in Minnesota. The spring that feeds the beginning of the mighty Mississippi thrusts up warm water, so the headwaters never freeze over. This river is vital to Lake Geneva as underground fissures from this passing river (73.9 miles to the west and runs 210 miles along the state’s border) provide the lake with most of its water.
The rest of Geneva Lake’s water is ‘donated’ by eleven streams, as well as passing storms of snow and rain. With the drought hitting the area, including Minnesota, the result is yellow grass, failing early crops and also a lowering of the lake’s depth. The White River, which begins at the dam and overflow area of northern Lake Geneva, is a shallow ribbon instead of the healthy flow everyone who visits its 19-mile course before joining into the Fox River in Racine County.
