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Posted on November 9 at 10:48 a.m.
Great discussion.
Very few in transit would want to anchor in a canal...no room to maneuver, too much risk of a wind shift causing a boat to damage itself or another boat, time to get off big water and back on...etc.
On the other hand tying off in a canal for a day or two has brought protection against hurricanes to a lot of boats over the years.
Marco's law overdid it. I heard the new approach will be for cities to unite and reapproach the State legislature...which is a more sane approach.
As you know...the mullet fishermen are free to fish the open waters around Marco...but they are not free to net fish in the canals. I live here and I think canals are different than Bays, like Van said. The way I see it is if we would have focused on the canal issue we probably would not have had a protest, but the 300 ft, mandatory pump out and 3 day issue was over the top. There has got to be a way to deal with poachers and derelicts that does not interfere with the free movement of mariners coming, visiting and going at will.
I don't want to appear elitist, I am not, but the type of people that go out and spend a couple hundred thousand to a million dollars on a boat so that they can see the country and the islands, or the Great Lakes, or Puget Sound or the other great waterways of this country are desirable to local communities, both for the temporary business they bring but also after they transition from their mariner lifestyle and there are communities that have tapped into this market to their great benefit. On this I speak with personal expertise.
Right now, the Okachobie (SP sorry) waterway is all but closed because of low water. Yachts moving from one side of Florida to the other have to go right past Marco Island through the Keys and up the other side or on their way to the Bahama's or East Indies. If we had not appeared so alien to travelers our Marinas would be full, the trolleys would be more active and our restaurants and shops busier as these people on their way from Chicago and the Midwest are on the move in late October and November and again in late April and May...not exactly prime time for our merchants.
Get this ordinance situation right and it provides an opportunity to show off our piece of paradise and also produce a little revenue for our merchannts and purveyors of services...and an opportunity to turn some of them into real estate customers.
Posted on November 5 at 10:17 a.m.
STATE route 951.
On Tax or toll? Both options under consideration to pay for new Jolley bridge
Posted on November 4 at 10:14 a.m.
If those rights are worth 2 million now, they will be worth more later...what's the rush.
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Posted on November 2 at 10:15 a.m.
The Hydrogen Sulfide problem comes from the fact that we live on a filled swamp and we are digging it up...it will go away.
I don't know where he stands all all the issues we face, and that will come out, but he is my physician and he is straight forward, objective and effective and worthy of trust.
I just hate to see him screw up a good medical practice because of only 24 hours in a day.
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Posted on November 2 at 10:05 a.m.
The State is responsible for this bridge and the last time I checked they were planning either a cantalever lane addition or a new span addition by 2020...12 years from now.
The bridge is crowded in season when the first shift ends. When we have this condition you can add miles, but save time by using the Goodland bridge, which is very much under utilized. Or just don't go at this time of the day!
Add a toll booth and you add a traffic jam.
Has anybody ever thought to ask the construction trade to use the Goodland Bridge for six weeks in season? Many of them do it already because
time is money and they have figured out they can get home sooner if they are not waiting in traffic on Marco Island when their workday is over.
The effort by our politicians should be to lobby Tallahassee to move the scheduled improvement forward.
Years ago, before the reconstruction of the Island, there were complaints for about 6 weeks of the year about waiting to get off the Island. Now that you can't get to the bridge it is a non issue(tongue in cheek) but at no time have we heard a clammouring of Islanders for a toll.
This needs a referrendum vote...or save the money and make it go away.
On MPO leaders to discuss study results on widening Marco's Jolley Bridge
Posted on October 27 at 3:12 p.m.
TF...Every Florida Coastal city that I have visited has a canal system...Marco Island is unique for a lot of reasons, but canals is not one of them.
Posters...to my knowlege, this was not a Moss issue, it was after the police had recommended a reasonable approach that a few activist got on an adgenda and srirred the pot, and stirred it well, that the council folded and passed something that was doomed even before the State stepped in.
Another episode that has ended in the courts.
Now we should work on a regulation that will stand the test of reasonablness and law.
Dumas...thank you and your supporters...it was well done.
On Marco law limiting boat anchoring struck down by Collier judge
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Posted on October 24 at 7:43 a.m.
Another distracting lawsuit settled...has the city ever lost one?
It costs time and money. Enough already.
On State Attorney clears two former Marco council members of Sunshine violations
Posted on October 24 at 7:39 a.m.
Let's see...the Marco council voted overwhelmingly on Moss's performance and has given him raises year after year...and now the Naples council votes 6 to 1 in favour of hiring him ...number one out of 161 applicants...stunning.
With him gone, now our council has the distraction of finding someone to replace him and given the history of the past couple of years, who would want to get mired in this?
The sewer system is not going to be pulled out of the ground and needs to get finished so we can get our streets back and the sooner the better.
Moss leaving will not make the tasks go away.
This is a great open forum and well used. I suppose Joel will become #1 lightning rod now.
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Posted on November 26 at 10:54 a.m.
When will the 5 Brothers/Vandy's deal take effect?
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