A Community of neighbours:

sharing common values:

•Rural (natural) landscape (treed skyline, natural shoreline, night skies)
•WaterQuality
•A healthy natural environment (flora, fauna, the shoreline, water)
•Health and safety

 respecting each others’ choices:

•Differentchoices about tenure (year-round residents, seasonal residents, farmers,
renters, campers)
•Boatingactivities (canoeing, kayaking, sail boarding, cruising, water skiing, tubing,
  PWCs etc.)
•Resource use (nature preservation, conservation, hunting, fishing, tree harvesting)

 working together to achieve common goals and objectives:

•Aesthetics(natural beauty of the lake environment; the unbroken skyline; relatively low
 level of development, with little visible impact along the shoreline and
backshore; peace and quiet, dark night skies)
•Waterquality
•Water level management
•Safety
•Community

 in the tradition of a small cottage lake in a rural Muskoka environment.