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F-3 <br />40 <br />40 <br />Indian [fiver County Manatee Protection and Heating Safety Comprehensive Management Plan <br />Boat facility: a public or private structure or operation where boats are moored and/or <br />launched, including commercial, recreational, and residential marinas, and public boat <br />ramps. A dry storage facility is considered part of a boat facility if the dry storage <br />facility has the capability of launching vessels into adjacent waters. For the purpose of <br />this plan, single-family docks with less than five (5) wet slips are not considered boat <br />facilities. <br />Boat Ramp: A structural, natural, or man-made feature that facilitates the launching <br />and landing of boats into a waterbody. <br />Channel of the Intracoastal Waterway: all waters within the navigable channel of <br />the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway in the Indian River in Indian River County, Florida, <br />and which navigable channel is a part of the inland waterways, and which said <br />navigable channel is located by buoys or other markers placed by the U.S. Coast Guard <br />(USCG) or Florida Inland Navigation District (FIND) together with the area extending <br />a distance of one hundred (100) feet from each side of said channel in a direction away <br />from the center of such channel and the sides of which channel being as determined <br />and marked by the buoys and markers placed by USCG or FIND. <br />Dry slip: a space designed for the storage of single watercraft in an upland location. <br />Dry storage facility: an upland structure used for storing watercraft. A dry storage <br />facility may be either a water -dependent or a water -related use. <br />Existing Facility: A boat facility that is permitted and/or authorized, constructed, and <br />in operation as of the effect ivc date of this plan. <br />High Manatee Use Area; An area of high manatee use is defined as an area that has <br />greater than seven (7), the countywide average number of, manatees in a 3 -mile radius. <br />This is calculated using the aerial survey data collected from June 1985 -December <br />1987 during 63 flights. The total number of manatees located in a 3 -mile radius of the <br />project site is divided by the total number of flights (63) and then compared to the <br />countywide average (7) for these surveys. <br />Community Development Department <br />Page 2 <br />