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Jeanie Orr
From: dave garing [davegaring@windermere.com]
Sent: Friday, January 30,20092:18 PM
To: #Long-Range Planning
Subject: SMP Comment
Dear Planning Commission,
I am very concerned about our protecting our shorelines but the proposed regulation that limits private
access structures also deeply concerns me. Article 7 indicates a stairway to the beach will be allowed
with a conditional use permit but not allowed where impacts to feeder bluffs, critical areas, landslides, or
erosion hazards would occur.
One of the reasons I purchased waterfront property was so that I might enjoy the beach by walking and
exploring it with my family. We have a private stairway at the end of our road that the local
neighborhood shares as its access point for enjoying the beach. I have been maintaining this stairway
since the 1970's.
Periodically I must repair the stairs because it is the nature of a bank to erode and slide. Prior to my
building the stairs I watched neighbors access the beach by scrambling and sliding down it destroying
the vegetation that helps maintain it. The stairway has clearly protected the bluff from eroding.
I strongly recommend that you reconsider the regulatory wording that would deny private landowners
the opportunity to access the beach from their property in the least harmful way.
Dave Garing
2/2/2009