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Bonney Lake council approves change to personal watercraft rules and funds buoys
Summary
The Bonney Lake City Council approved AB 26-17 to correct a scriveners error and replace a 5-mph enforcement metric with a wake-based standard; the ordinance also included a $34,000 line from the ending fund balance to purchase buoys for newly defined no-wake areas.
The Bonney Lake City Council on Feb. 10 approved AB 26-17, an amendment to the Bonney Lake Municipal Code to clarify personal watercraft operating standards and to fund new navigational buoys.
Council members moved and seconded the ordinance after staff explained that the update corrects a scriveners error and replaces a difficult-to-enforce 5 mph metric near shore with a visually enforceable definition of a wake. A council member explained the…
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