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Tequesta board approves variance to extend dock at 354 Riverside Drive
Summary
The Village of Tequesta planning and zoning board granted a variance allowing a longer, reconfigured dock at 354 Riverside Drive to reach deeper water, citing shoaling and seagrass protection. Approval was unanimous.
The Planning and Zoning Board of the Village of Tequesta on March 20 approved a variance allowing the owners of 354 Riverside Drive to extend and reconfigure a private dock to reach deeper water and reduce impacts on nearby seagrass.
Board members granted two variances requested by the property owners, David and Amity Swank, after a presentation from the Swanks’ attorney and coastal engineer about persistent shoaling at the mouth of a nearby drainage canal and the presence of nearshore seagrass beds that the applicants said are being displaced by accreting sediment.
Community development director Jay Hutch told the board that when a zoning variance is requested in a residential district “it goes directly to the PZV,…
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