The state Department of Natural Resources is working to craft new rules for waterfront construction.
The DNR will host public meetings around the state starting in June, although new recommendations likely won't be ready until mid-2009. It would take another year after that to change the state regulations through the state's complex rulemaking process.
It will be the first change to statewide lakefront development rules since 1989, and only the second since 1971. New rules will govern things such as lot size, setback distance from the lake, buffer zones between homes and water, septic tank rules, subdivision limits, forest and agricultural practices and more.
(Copyright 2008 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
