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Planning Commission Sets Public Hearing on Pier and Boathouse Ordinance Amendments to Allow 'Shelter Roofs'
Summary
The commission agreed to schedule a public hearing on draft amendments that would permit open-sided 'shelter roofs' on private piers with limits (400 sq. ft. and 20 ft. height) and clarify permit paths involving VMRC and the county.
The Northumberland County Planning Commission voted to schedule a public hearing on proposed amendments to the county’s pier and boathouse ordinance that would allow open‑sided shelter roofs (sometimes called sun shelters) on private, noncommercial piers under specified limits.
The change would remove the ordinance language that currently forbids “open sided shelter roofs or gazebo type structures” on private, noncommercial piers and would add rules limiting shelter roofs to no more than 400 square feet and 20 feet in height. Staff also proposed minimum setback measurements: at least 100 feet from the applicant’s shoreline measured in a straight line from the intersection of the side property line with mean low water, and no less than 20 feet from the side…
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