Premier Doug Ford's government will slap restrictions on floating homes, a new style of on-the-lake accommodation that has triggered controversy in Ontario's cottage country, CBC News has learned.
The province's ban will prohibit the floating homes from staying overnight on public waterways.
The ban will only apply to what the province calls "floating accommodations," defined in the regulation as floating structures designed primarily for residential purposes and not primarily for navigation. The ban on overnight anchoring on Ontario's lakes and rivers would apply only to structures primarily designed for residential purposes, and would not apply to sailboats, cabin cruisers or houseboats.The minister of natural resources and forestry, Graydon Smith, who is also MPP for Parry Sound-Muskoka in the heart of Ontario's cottage country, says environmental and safety concerns — not esthetics — are the reasons for the restrictions.
"Along with that, of course, you get a lot of grey water and waste. So the potential for any of that to go into a lake or river is something that we don't want to see happen."On the website of Joe Nimens' company Live On The Bay, this is described as a two-bedroom floating beach house cottage, priced from $260,000.
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