** APPROVAL OF AGENDA.
1. MINUTES of previous meeting.
2. PERMITS (Projects over $50,000 with no
objections and with staff recommendation for approval.)
3. CLOSED MEETING FOR CONSULTATION WITH OR BRIEFING BY COUNSEL.
4. STAFF REPORT regarding Ms. Mary Hill's Oyster Planting Ground situation.
5. ROBERT HOLLOWAY, #02-0012.
Clarification of the Commission's June 27, 2006, decision regarding Mr.
Holloway's unauthorized construction at his property situated along the
Poquoson River in York County.
6. HARBOUR VIEW LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, #00-0476.
Formal Restoration Hearing concerning the construction of a 30.5-foot
by 30.5-foot gazebo structure (approximately 730 square feet)
channelward of mean low water adjacent to a riverfront park at the
confluence of Knotts Creek and the Nansemond River in the City of
Suffolk. Deferred from the June meeting.
7. C. W. LAWRENCE, JR., #03-1086,
requests authorization to retain a previously installed boat-lift along
a permitted 8-foot by 36-foot open-pile pier, and to modify his
existing permit to construct an 8-foot by 20-foot pier extension;
install a 6-foot by 80-foot floating pier; and to install a 4-foot by
55-foot floating pier adjacent to his commercial property along Jones
Creek, a tributary to the Pagan River in Isle of Wight County.
8. WILLIAM J. MEAGHER, #06-0204,
requests authorization to construct a 15-foot by 20-foot riprap
breakwater and a 15-foot by 40-foot riprap breakwater, 75 linear feet
of riprap marsh toe sill, and to place 50 cubic yards of sand landward
of the breakwaters, as beach nourishment, adjacent to his property
situated along Stutts Creek in Mathews County. The project is
protested by an adjoining property owner.
9. PORT ROYAL FISH HOUSE, L.L.C., #05-2547,
requests authorization to extend an existing commercial pier to
approximately 245 feet to create a 14-slip commercial marina. The
project also includes the installation of 108 linear feet of riprap
revetment and the dredging of 380 cubic yards of State-owned subaqueous
material, to create maximum depths of minus two and one half (-2.5)
feet at mean low water. The Port Royal Fish House is situated
along the Rappahannock River immediately northwest of the James Madison
(Route 301) Memorial Bridge in Caroline County. Both Wetlands and
Subaqueous permits are required. The project is protested by an
adjacent property owner.
10. MR. & MRS. ROB BOSWELL, #04-2357,
request authorization to construct a 70-foot long by 6-foot wide
extension to their existing 91-foot long, private, noncommercial timber
pier at their property situated along Kingscote Creek in Northumberland
County. The project is protested by the affected oyster ground
lease holder.
11. JERRY W. FERGUSON.
Commission consideration of the appropriate terms and conditions to
accompany the conveyance of a causeway and island located on
approximately 1.2 acres of State-owned submerged land in the
Rappahannock River adjacent to an easement from State Route 600 in
Middlesex County as authorized by Chapter 201, Acts of Assembly 2006.
12. FRANCIS CHESTER, #05-0057,
request for review of the royalty assessment of $1,140.75 for the
encroachment over 760.5 square feet of State-owned submerged lands at a
rate of $1.50 per square foot for the permit issued to Mr. Chester to
construct a 13-foot wide by 66-foot long bridge that spans 58.5 feet of
Jennings Branch in Augusta County.
13. DISCUSSION: Request for supplemental Commission guidance concerning royalty assessment procedures.
14. DISCUSSION: Repeal of the Commission's "Private Pier Guidance Criteria" given recent Code changes.
15. PUBLIC COMMENTS
16. FAILURE TO REPORT HARVEST, as required by Regulation 4 VAC 20-610-10 et seq., "Pertaining to Commercial Fishing and Mandatory Harvest Reporting".
17. PUBLIC HEARING:
Proposed amendments to Regulation 4 VAC 20-566, "Pertaining to the
Hampton Roads Shellfish Relay Area" to permanently extend the relay
season to September 30th of each year.
FISHERY MANAGEMENT ITEMS WILL IMMEDIATELY FOLLOW THE HABITAT MANAGEMENT PROJECTS ON THIS AGENDA.