Legal changes cited at Virginia Key meeting complicate mooring-field plan
A longtime basin user told the advisory board recent state and county law changes may limit the need for a large mooring field, and a draft county code provision and a new state perimeter rule were cited as potentially superseding the 195-buoy plan.
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At the Virginia Key Advisory Board meeting, public commenter Roger Bernstein summarized recent legislative and county-code developments affecting anchoring rules. Bernstein said state law historically preempted local anchoring regulation but described a recent change that allows limited county-created anchoring-limitation areas and noted the legislature extended a previously 100-foot perimeter to 300 feet around a mooring field.
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