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• It is requested that the information presented herein be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its regular meeting of October 5, 1999. DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS: Recently, Mr. Tom Collins submitted a request to address the Board of County Commissioners at its meeting of October 5, 1999. W. Collins has indicated that, at that time, he will ask the Board to amend the County land development regulations (LDR's), regarding single-family docks. • Current Single -Family Dock Regulations Presently, the County's LDR's treat docks on single-family zoned lots as uses which must be accessory to a principal use, namely a single family residence. As such, docks are regulated in much the same way as other accessory uses such as garages, utility sheds, swimming pools, tennis courts, and others. Like those other accessory uses, docks must meet the criteria for accessory uses. As defined in Section 901.03 of the IDR's, an accessory use is a use which: (a) Is clearly incidental to, customarily found in association with, and serves a principal use: (b) Is subordinate in purpose, area, and extent to the principal use served; and (c) Is located on the same lot as the principal use, or on an adjoining lot in the same ownership as that of the principal use. Back in the mid -eighties, however, the Board of County Commissioners created a special allowance for docks on vacant single-family lots. Because there was concern at that time that the state might prohibit the construction of all docks in the Indian River Lagoon, the Board amended the zoning code to allow the construction of docks on vacant single-family lots, but prohibited the use of these docks until a principal use (single-family house) is constructed on the lot. Consequently, single-family docks on vacant lots are allowed as administrative permit uses. Section 971.41 (7)(c) of the IDR's reads as follows: 'The construction of a single-family dock on a lot prior to the construction of a principal single-family dwelling unit on the same lot shall be permitted for the purpose of providing waterfront property owners vested riparian rights for access to the adjacent waterbody. This aforementioned dock, however, shall continue to be construed as an accessory structure and its use prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy for the principal structure shall not be considered consistent with the appropriate zoning district regulations" The administrative permit criteria for single-family docks on vacant lots also require an applicant to execute an agreement stating that the dock will not be used until such time as a single-family unit is constructed on the subject lot. That agreement must then be recorded in the public records. To secure the agreement, the applicant must post a $1,500 cash escrow with the County. • Collins Request: Mr. Collins has now requested that the Board of County Commissioners amend the LDR's to remove the prohibition of using single-family docks that are built on vacant lots. Any such amendment October 5, 1999 41 •