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FF,_ -7 <br />JUL 071992 <br />TO: Commissioner Gary C. Wheeler <br />MANWAC Chairman <br />FROM: Roland DeBlois,�AICP <br />Chief, Environmental Planning <br />DATE: June 16, 1992 <br />SUBJECT: MANWAC Revised Recommendations; <br />State Manatee Protection Proposal <br />Following is a summary of the Marine Advisory/Narrows Watershed <br />Action Committee's (MANWAC) revised recommendations concerning the <br />FDNR manatee protection proposal, as approved by MANWAC at their <br />meeting.of June 15, 1992.1 <br />1. Revise the seasonal recreation use areas so that the 35 m.p.h. <br />speed allowance time frame extends from April 15th to October <br />31st each year. <br />2. Eliminate all slow speed restrictions in the Intracoastal <br />Waterway channel (and adjacent 100' buffers), including the <br />elimination of seasonal slow speed within the channel of the <br />Jungle Trail narrows, EXCEPT FOR recommended slow speed under <br />bridges and between channel markers 137 and 143 (Riomar Cut). <br />Revise all areas proposed to be 30 m. p. h. maximum speed within <br />the Intracoastal Waterway channel (and adjacent 100' buffers) <br />to 35 m.p.h. maximum speed. <br />3. Revise the configuratic.. of the unregulated recreation <br />use area in the south portion of the county, east of channel <br />markers 153-156, so that the unregulated area is 300 yards <br />wide extending from the south tip of Prang Island to Porpoise <br />Point, whereby the eastern boundary of the 300 yard width is <br />the barrier island shoreline. Moreover, revise the <br />unregulated area to include a 100 yard wide access corridor <br />from the Intracoastal Waterway channel to "Martin Cove", along <br />the south side of the existing east -west powerline (near <br />channel marker 153). <br />4. Leave all residential canals (e.g., Vero Shores canals) <br />open to public access, even if at idle speeds. <br />5. [FDNR] dredge the shoals at the confluence of the south <br />fork of the St. Sebastian River, to an appropriate depth to <br />allow for safe passage of both manatees and boats. <br />6. Revise the areas proposed to be slow speed outside of and west <br />of the Intracoastal Waterway channel (and 100' buffers) to be <br />slow speed within 600' of the lagoon west shoreline, with the <br />remaining area (between the 600' west shoreline slow speed <br />buffer and the Intracoastal Waterway channel 100' buffer) to <br />be 20 m.p.h. maximum speed. This proposed revision does not <br />apply to recreation use areas and proposed idle speed areas. <br />26 <br />