Portofino Request to Build a Marina
Why your help is needed:
This approval of Porotofino would presume that all non-waterfront owners in communities abutting water will have a "rightful use" to justify a boat slip and this could set a precedent for existing communities demanding extensions of boat slips and marinas due to "rightful use" claims. New communities could also use this as an opportunity to demand more boat docks for their developments. Approving this will only cause more harm and conflict amongst various overseeing branches, legal system, lawyers, developers etc.
If this project is approved, it could set a precedent, and create a mass direction of owners, seeking permitting, and/or lawsuits to denying authorities, to be more vigilant in demanding boat slips or extensions to property they own or are to own.
Concerns:
1) The number of unit owners with contiguous water or marsh at the rear of there property, with close proximity, and reasonable vision (to be considered a waterfront property)
2) A possible conditional allowance to a property that from the side view with an argument that it is waterfront due it its close proximity the edge of wetlands or water? If a proposition like this were to be approved, this would set the stage for this and many more problems.
OR
1) The number of property owners within the association and community that has any land that is adjacent to water or marsh have a rightful entitlement to a boat slip.
This decision and result could set a precedent for future permitting, as this will become public enough to be known by current and future community proponents.
You can see this is much more than 16 boat slips for a marina.
At this date the best person to contact regarding Portofino is Jerry Klasuss because you would be asking for the decision of the Shoreline Commission to be overturned. You could say if you wanted, most of the property owners on the canal haven’t had any notice of the marina being built.
Mr. Jerry Klauss, Chairman
Worcester County Board of Zoning Appeals
One West Market Street
Snow Hill, MD
Board of County Commissioners, Worcester County, Maryland, at County Government Center, Snow Hill, 2008
The members are
Louise L. Gulyas President James C. (Bud) Church Vice-President Robert L. Cowger, Jr.
James L. Purnell, Jr. (D), Dist. 2
Virgil L. Shockley (D), Dist. 4
Judith O. Boggs (R), Dist. 5
Linda C. Busick (R), Dist. 6
For more information please contact:
Vera McCullough
1vm.mccullough@verizon.net
OTHER PHOTOS
OVERVIEW
http://picasaweb.google.com/savebaywetlands/Overview?authkey=TytAJdXF5BM#
CURRENT BOAT SLIP PHOTOS
http://picasaweb.google.com/savebaywetlands/PlannedMarinaExpansionAbuttingMarshRunningParallelToHighlyTraveledCanal?authkey=n6ApzA936XY#
MARSH/HABITAT
http://picasaweb.google.com/savebaywetlands/ViewsAtPortofinoMarshCanalWaterway?authkey=n21ZFAt0jz4#
If these links aren’t working for you cut and paste them on your browser. They really are worth the time.
Vera
