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Committee backs longer study, finance referral for Monument Island cleanup and safety measures
Summary
Committee heard Marine Patrol and resilience staff propose habitat restoration plus riprap, mooring buoys and swim‑only areas to reduce illegal boating, unsafe behavior and ecological damage at Monument Island; members asked for a financing plan and county coordination and continued the item to May 13.
The Land Use and Sustainability Committee on March 4 directed staff to develop a short‑ and long‑term plan for Monument Island that would combine ecosystem restoration and public‑safety measures and to send a finance referral while staff pursues county approvals.
Amy Knowles, chief resilience officer, said the item responds to a $25,000 donation that had not been spent and to recommendations from the Sustainability Committee. Staff showed a landscape plan prepared several years ago and reported a conceptual cost estimate for an integrated fix — riprap along vulnerable shorelines, mooring buoys to keep boats out of shallow seagrass, designated swim‑only zones and restoration planting — of roughly…
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