To better control the lake this year, KL is requiring all privately owned canoes and such to be registered before being placed on the lake. Mine was registered recently and it required signing a rules sheet. One of the rules goes like this: The only authorized launch point for watercraft is the marina. So, in this walk able community, we are required to put our canoes on top of the truck and driver to the marina, where there is no parking, and launch. That includes those of us who live within a few hundred feet of the East Lake boat dock. (Until today a neighbor and I have always wheeled our canoes to the dock on dollies, no gas burned.)

Failure to obey this rule results in removal of all amenity privileges for a year. I read this as a back door way to remove private boats from the lake. It really irritates me that the family across the street parks their cabin cruiser on the street for weeks at a time, leaves garbage cans on the street all week, shoots off fireworks, and their kids ride ATVs up and down the sidewalk. Yet they won't lose any of their privileges. Meanwhile, if I launch a Daybreak registered canoe from the boat dock …