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Parks staff: annual mangrove trimming under FDEP rules, city uses contractor ETI
Summary
Parks manager Abraham Luna said the city contracts ETI for annual mangrove trimming at Centennial Park, trimming to the FDEP-required 6-foot mark measured from the riverbed, removing exotics and trash, and that permit enforcement is handled by FDEP or code enforcement depending on the case.
Abraham Luna told the board the Parks Department contracts ETI to perform annual mangrove trimming at Centennial Park and that this week ETI was on day two of work. "What we asked them to do annually is to trim along the Art Hemel Pier at Centennial Park...They also removed the exotics and some of the trash items that are found in the mangroves," Luna said.
Luna explained trimming follows a six-foot limit set by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and that the measurement is taken from the riverbed, which in practice gives about four feet from the base at park ground level. He said the Parks Department documents work and notifies environmental/stormwater staff before trimming; permit compliance and enforcement for private property or contractor violations are handled by FDEP inspections and by building-permitting or code-enforcement units when applicable. The board discussed private trimming, permit pulls, and whether the city maintains records of violations; Luna directed questions about specific enforcement or planting counts to code or stormwater staff.
