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Magistrate orders added screening to hide boat after owner and city disagree on whether plants must be permanent
Summary
A West Palm Beach property owner said potted plants already obscure his boat; city staff said the screening is intended to be planted. The magistrate ordered additional screening so the boat is not visible from the public right of way and gave 60 days to comply.
Charlie Weiss, the owner of 6010 Martin Avenue, told the special magistrate that temporary potted plants and existing vegetation together already obscure his boat from public view and that the municipal code does not explicitly require permanent plantings. “Nowhere in there did it say that it needed to be permanent,” Weiss said.
City landscape planner Megan Beshant (Beshotte) and supervisor Kevin…
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