County Hopes Loophole on Longboat Pass Plan Sets Precedent

BRADENTON – If things go the way Manatee County staff hope, linking their Inlet Management Plan (item 39 on linked agenda) to a conceptual permit could allow individual structures to receive specific regulatory permits on their merits, while not being as vulnerable to challenges to their necessity, because of the vetting that would have already been done. The permission for recurring maintenance dredging could be given under something as simple as a “Notice to Proceed” if judged to be consistent with the conceptual plan.So said Manatee County Natural Resources Director Charlie Hunsicker in an email to county officials this week. Hunsicker said that the idea was first brought up by Deputy Secretary of Regulatory Programs, Jeff Littlejohn in an informational meeting held with the Executive Committee of the Florida Shore and Beach

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