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Board leans toward enforcing state-backed 30-day anchoring limit; ALA option remains possible with county coordination
Summary
Advisory board discussion contrasted Anchorage Limitation Areas (ALA) with new state authority (House Bill 481) that restores local time-based anchoring limits. The board indicated a preference for local ordinance language aligned with the state 30-day rolling limit but asked staff to draft exceptions and implementation details.
The advisory board spent a substantial portion of its June 5 meeting discussing two regulatory approaches to long-term vessel anchoring: locally designated Anchorage Limitation Areas (ALA) and a recently passed state measure referenced in the meeting as House Bill 481.
Marco, the city’s waterway officer, described the differences. Under the ALA framework, an area may be designated where anchoring is limited to 45 consecutive days in a six-month period and the area must not exceed specified geographic…
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