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Planning board raises navigability, dock‑height and measurement concerns in code review
Summary
Board members asked staff to consider amending dock rules (section 6.23) to account for neighbors’ access to navigable water, revisit perpendicular measurement requirements and allow higher docks where seawall elevation changes are planned.
At the end of the Dec. 15 meeting the St. Pete Beach Planning Board discussed code provisions governing docks and boat lifts (land development code section 6.23). A board member who lives on an affected street said the ordinance’s administrative approval process could allow a neighboring property to extend a dock in a way that would reduce others’ access to water at low tide.
The speaker asked the city to…
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