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Planning commissioners find proposed docks-and-seawalls ordinance inconsistent after residents object to boat canopies
Summary
After staff presented an ordinance draft that would allow limited roofed canopies over docks and boat lifts, public commenters and several commissioners raised view and consistency concerns; the planning commission voted to find the ordinance inconsistent with the comprehensive plan.
The Local Planning Agency considered a proposed Land Development Code amendment to the county's docks-and-seawalls rules that would reintroduce regulated canopies over boat lifts and docks, but after public comment and commissioner questions the Planning Commission voted to find the ordinance inconsistent with the comprehensive plan.
Staff said the update aims to reinstate a version of an earlier 2019 ordinance (19-12) that had allowed certain covers on inland lakes but was subsequently invalidated by the circuit court; the new draft would allow limited fabric "boat lift canopies" countywide subject to dimensional and…
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