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Planners ask supervisors to consider allowing open‑sided gazebos over private piers
Summary
A resident asked the Northumberland County Planning Commission to recommend that supervisors amend the county's pier ordinance to allow open-sided roof structures (gazebos) over private piers; the commission voted to send the request to the Board of Supervisors for consideration.
Craig Palovinski, a marine‑structures designer and Bay Coral Shores resident, asked the Northumberland County Planning Commission on June 18 to ask the Board of Supervisors to amend the county's pier zoning rules to allow open‑sided roof structures (commonly called gazebos) over private piers.
Palovinski told the commission the Virginia Marine Resources Commission (VMRC) has added an exemption that allows open‑sided gazebos up to 400 square feet and allows open‑sided boathouses or covered slips up to 700 square feet when adjoining waterfront property owners do not object. "They also allow boathouse or open sided boathouses up to 700 square feet," Palovinski said, and he described the VMRC change that added gazebos at the smaller size threshold.
Why it matters: local pier rules affect shoreline property…
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