Laguna Estates, LLC, associated with a dock for a 7.75 acre multi-family residential project, known as Laguna Estates. The project is located in Section 1, Township 26 South, Range 36 East, Brevard County, Florida. The street address is 59 South ...

 

WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICTS
St. Johns River Water Management District

The St. Johns River Water Management District (District) hereby gives notice that it received a petition for variance on July 20, 2006, from Laguna Estates, LLC, associated with a dock for a 7.75 acre multi-family residential project, known as Laguna Estates. The project is located in Section 1, Township 26 South, Range 36 East, Brevard County, Florida.  The street address is 59 South Highway 1, Rockledge, which is approximately 0.75 miles south of Viera Boulevard. Pursuant to Section 373.414(17), Fla. Stat., Laguna Estates, LLC, seeks a variance from paragraph 40C-4.302(1)(c), Florida Administrative Code, and the associated portion of the Applicant’s Handbook:  Management and Storage of Surface Waters, 12.2.5(c), with respect to Environmental Resource permit 4-009-89906-2. The application initially sought approval of 12 boat slips associated with a dock for Laguna Estates. The application for variance seeks approval to construct a dock structure, including an access pier, two boat slips, and a covered platform in Class II waters in the Indian River conditionally restricted for shellfish harvesting. (Information on the shellfish harvesting status of the Class II waters is obtainable from the Department of Agriculture & Consumer Services.) The variance proposes to meet the requirements for a private, single-family boat dock that is allowed by rule in conditionally restricted Class II waters. The rule, which precludes any docks but qualifying private, single-family boat docks, exists to protect shell fish harvesting areas from perturbation due to multi-slip boat docks associated with multi-family residences and from excessive impacts from private, single-family boat docks.

Comments on the petition should be filed with Robert Nawrocki, District Clerk, St. Johns River Water Management District, 4049 Reid St., Palatka, Fl., 32177-2529, within 14 days of publication of this notice. The petition has been assigned F.O.R Number 2006-76.

For a copy of the petition or additional information, contact Vance Kidder, Assistant General Counsel, St. Johns River Water Management District at the foregoing address or at [phone].