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'DEC 0 4 199 <br />BOOK. � !) �-AGE 07 <br />Commissioner Eggert thought it would be easier to understand <br />if the referenced section were inserted here. It could be assumed <br />that a house would be on the lot because it says, "a lot owner <br />authorizing storage on the owner's lot." It would not be legal for <br />a lot owner to authorize storage on his vacant lot. Storage is an <br />accessory use. <br />Attorney Collins felt it could be clarified by the wording, <br />"except that the provisions of Section 911.15(7)(b)1 shall not <br />preclude a developed -lot owner from authorizing a third party to <br />store a boat on the owner's lot." <br />Commissioner Scurlock asked about situations where someone has <br />two contiguous lots, one with a residence and one without. <br />Mr. DeBlois said it would begin with the specific principal <br />use, and storage or use of a vacant contiguous lot can be <br />considered accessory to that adjacent lot. <br />Commissioner Eggert recalled that we have had to resolve many <br />accessory use problems. <br />Chairman Bird summarized, and Community Development Director <br />Bob Keating concurred, that with the recommended changes boat <br />storage in the appropriate legal place on the beach would be <br />allowable on an oceanfront lot that had a residence on that lot for <br />either the owner of that residence or their designee and there <br />would be no storage of boats on unoccupied vacant oceanfront lots. <br />Chairman Bird understood that staff is concerned with <br />consistency and we do not allow a vacant lot to be used for storage <br />in any part of the County. He asked if there is a way to <br />differentiate, because riparian rights and the public's use of the <br />beach on portions of the property come into play. <br />Commissioner Scurlock suggested we except it by calling it a <br />special situation. <br />Attorney Collins said the Board is addressing _this section <br />partly because we are addressing this exception in a new section of <br />the code which talks about keeping boats on the beach. The general <br />prohibition in the ordinance that deals with unenclosed storage in <br />other places still says "owner -occupied." He felt they are not the <br />same. <br />Commissioner Eggert noted that by allowing them to authorize <br />a designee we are giving people something they would not have if <br />they were storing something on another lot. <br />Discussion ensued regarding storage of boats on vacant <br />riverfront lots. <br />Attorney Collins advised that while you cannot build a dock or <br />store a boat on a vacant riverfront lot, you could pull a canoe up <br />on your lot in an exercise of riparian rights. <br />6 <br />M M M <br />