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Mrs. Robinson commented that if this ordinance was changed, they would benefit by being able to store 4 of their 5 boats on the beach in front of their home. However, having lived on the beach and having seen the results of just one boat being kept there, she has quite a bit of hesitation as to whether this is the way the people of Indian River County want their beach to go. She wondered if this ordinance would allow anybody to sail their boat onto the beach, park it, go off and come back in a week, a month or longer. Mrs. Robinson asked if there would be any limit to the number of boats, vehicles, or items that people could leave on the beach and also whether there would be a requirement that you would have to be a resident of the county or state to take advantage of the free parking lot. She pointed out that Castaway Cove probably has more than 100 lots, many of these are located back from the ocean, and she felt sure that many of the people would love to have a boat on the beach and have it there for whenever they wished to use it. She really wondered whether it would be a good thing. She understood that this ordinance permits mobile homes, etc., and all kinds of vehicles as long as they do not disturb the beach. She is really concerned about the effect this would have on the beach, because she has observed the storage of just one boat by her house, where the owner of the boat, his family and friends did not use the dune cross-over which is required by county ordinance. A dune crossing is only one block away, but they simply made themselves a path across the grass and over the dune to drag their boat down to the beach. When bad weather threatened, the boat was dragged up onto the bluff line because there was no place on the beach for it. When the winds and the water are up, there is no suitable place for it -- it would be too dangerous. When a real bad storm came up, the boat was taken up to the crest of the bluff line and left there at the owner's convenience until it suited him to go back and drag the trailer and the boat back down to the beach again. This particular owner paid no attention to the ordinance which forbids crossing the dune wherever you choose, and she really didn't know that we could hope that many people would pay attention to this ordinance. She expected they would take advantage of the closest route to the beach. Mrs. Robinson felt that enforcement of the old ordinance was quite simple because the ordinance was very straight forward, stating that you cannot store anything eastward of the dune vegetation line. Mrs. Robinson urged the Board to.keep the old wording. PGOA f;i�E c�1 NOV 1191 17