Our population is aging, fewer families are moving in, and the repercussions are large.

It’s time to give serious consideration to the type of community you would like Lake Geneva to be in the next 20 years.

Seriously, this is up to you.

If you are like me, when you get home to Lake Geneva you notice the tension leave your shoulders, you breath in the clean air, you feel at home.

No matter which direction you are entering from, where you have been is likely more crowded, the traffic moves faster, the visual noise is distracting.

And then you get home. In the summer you have a line of cars along Main Street, but you have figured out your “back way” to your driveway. You smile as you exit the fray and realize that you live in one of the best places in the country, and others are just visiting.

While you are likely a relative newcomer (ie, you didn’t grow up here), you don’t want to make this an impossible place for others to move in. But you don’t want to make Lake Geneva like Schaumburg or Arlington Heights. Not to disparage those communities, I have yet to meet a person that wants to make Lake Geneva full of shopping malls, parking lots and traffic signals.

And keeping that from happening is going to take citizen involvement, because the temptation to develop land, increase the tax base, and add high end housing on open land is huge.

I’d like to be your alderman to make sure your opinion is heard and put to the council before the decisions are made.