Thread: TVA at it again!!!

There are campgrounds where campers haven't moved in 25+ years and you guys are okay with that? A lot of them have even built permanent structures attached to their trailers (which created havoc when trying to evacuate campers during this spring's flood).

That is akin to building a house on someone else's land without permission or a renter taking it upon themselves to take out walls in an apartment. The TVA owns the land. The campers are only subletting it.

Say you owned a beautiful piece of land and you leased it out to a farmer to grow crops on the tillable acreage. You drive by next spring and someone has placed a house smack in the middle of it because the farmer decided he would make a little extra money by renting that spot on your property to them for the next 25 years. Would you care? Maybe that's not exactly an apples to apples comarison but it's pretty close.

I agree with the structures built below 375 and I don't have a problem with the 2 weeks of everything moved out so they can inspect. But don't tell me I have to get in a lottery to see if I have a camping spot next year.

Why not?

I think I would be looking at non-TVA campgrounds right now if I wanted to continue on the way things have always been.

Confused, where do they think they are going to get the man power to enforce. How are they going to identify on how many days I am there. Are they going to make the camp owners the policemen? I think some bean counter is idealistic and un realistic.

You lease the land, why is TVA becoming big brother and dictating to the land owners and campers more rules than are enforceable. We camp for fun, not just to pay the TVA.

Chuck

The TVA does own the land in question. The campgrounds simply lease it from them and the campers sublet.

Per my understanding, that 2 week shutdown period is when all campers are supposed to be removed and the inspection can take place. That part of it would be pretty easy to enforce. I wouldn't think that it would take them that long to do the inspections. I assume that there is some sort of paper trail that shows how long each camper is supposed to be there.

Also, there isn't necessarily a lottery system going to be put in place. The campground operators just have to make sure that everyone that may be interested has a fair shot at getting a long term spot every year.

http://wpsd.bimedia.net/content/TVAlands.pdf

This will end up costing the campers a bunch of money. The price of a long term waterfront camping spot will skyrocket since TVA will effectivly cut the # of these spots in half. As usual with our government, the poor working guy who can barley justify what he is paying now will be the one screwed. The people with plenty of money will now be the only ones who will have the longterm waterfront sites. Since they will be able to pay to keep them.

The government of the rich, by the rich, and for the rich shall not perish unless---
THEY ARE VOTED OUT!!!

The Obama government is doing this in every area of our lives, 1% charge to everything payable to the Obama government.

Go vote as many times as you can to get the rascals out of there.

Pepper