A zoning request that goes before Gainesville City Council on Tuesday is tearing at old wounds over concerns about increased siltation in Lake Knickerbocker, a dammed-up part of Ada Creek. The lake “has struggled significantly over the past 30 years and dramatically over the past 15, from radical silting created by stormwater runoff rushing regularly into its several tributaries,” resident David Gleason said in a Dec. 9 letter to the city’s Planning and Appeals Board. At stake now is a request from Treadwell and Deborah Syfan to amend the existing planned unit development on 5.4 acres on Greystone Road, west of Tommy Aaron Drive, permitting four single-family residential lots.
Plan stirs concerns over lakes silt problem