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the event it becomes silted up from a hurricane as the 14th Street canal in Rockridge did. The DOT? The River Shores landowners? Who would be responsible? Vice Chairman Eggert understood that the River Shores people would have the same problem if the canal became silted up, and would have to do that for themselves. Commissioner Scurlock felt the bottom line is that this has happened before when people were sold a picture of access to the river and then came back in a few years yelling foul. That is why he would like to make sure that if we are going to allow a boat ramp, it would be one that is functional and able to be used and maintained. Robert Keating, Director of Planning & Development, felt that certainly could be made a condition of the required access management plan, along with the manatee signs, the no wake zones, and the markers indicating seagrass beds. Commissioner Bowman asked how they were going to limit it to the use of just 5 boats at a time, and Mr. Boling felt the best way to do that is through the proposed design, which is to have only 5 trailer spaces available. Commissioner Bowman was concerned also about how many people in this development are going to want to have boats since it is a much more densely populated area than River Shores ,which has the possibility of only 12 docks. She wondered what those people are going to do when there are only 5 trailer spaces available. Perhaps they will use the public boat ramp at Oslo Road, which is only a quarter of a mile away, but she believed they eventually will want to increase the dockage capacity using the argument that everybody in the subdivision should have the same right to dock their boats there. They will probably want a larger parking lot, too. Commissioner Bowman also expected them to eventually come back and say that they need to dredge the channel out to the Intracoastal. They get a foot in the door, and then they go. 15 MAR 281989 NOOK. F!+,F 455