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WHAT’S IN FRONT OF US RIGHT NOWUpdated October 18, 2026 · every figure from the Association’s or the State’s own records
The $59 tenant registration fee WAIVED FOR STRs OCT 13
$202 a lot, every year
WHAT THE REST OF US NOW PICK UP — LONG-TERM TENANTS STILL PAY, SHORT-TERM TENANTS DON’T
CRRA charges $59 to register a rental tenant for gate access. On October 13 the Board stopped charging it for short-term tenants — the ones who turn over every weekend — while long-term tenants still pay. Its own statement says the decision was made in executive session on September 8, the same day the president told owners it was “still in review.” The waived fee was an $800,000-a-year line. Spread over all 3,955 owner accounts, that is $202 a lot; the Board says the shortfall “will be addressed in the coming months.” On October 30 the Board “clarified”: the fee is authorized by By-Laws §8(i) and was “no longer necessary” — “illegal” is gone. Eleven minutes before the October 13 waiver the same Board raised construction impact fees 52% to 900% with no study. The full timeline →
How the fee ended, step by step →
The buffer law UNENFORCED
1,386 violations, no action
OUT OF 3,746 THE STATE ITSELF VERIFIED, 1998–2025
Georgia law leaves a 25-foot undisturbed buffer on every stream in the resort and 50 feet on trout water — fifty years old and unambiguous. EPD’s own Complaint Tracking System records 3,746 verified violations; in 37% of them there was no corrective action, no restoration, nothing. One Gilmer consent order let structures stay in a trout-stream buffer for a $262 penalty. Variances identified for Mountaintown Creek in twenty years: zero.
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