There’s a simple reason why tough watershed controls are necessary to protect Lake Maumelle. Give the developers an inch and they’ll take every mile they can get.

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Consider Beaver Lake, where support for a lakeshore buffer zone was enough to keep one civic-minded person off the Benton County Planning Board. The “property rights” crowd (“I can do what I want with my property no matter how much harm it does to my next door neighbor”) wouldn’t stand for it. The man had the gall to take a public position on clean water. ‘Nuff said. The Iconoclast summarizes.

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