1. MINUTES of previous meeting.
** APPROVAL OF MINUTES.
2. PERMITS (Projects over
$50,000 with
noobjections and with staff recommendation for approval.)
3. CLOSED SESSION.
4. WICOMICO PINES
HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, #03-1481. Commission review on
appeal by the Wicomico Pines Homeowners Association of the August 7,
2003, decision by the Northumberland County Wetlands Board to deny a
permit to construct a 25-foot wide by 50-foot long gravel boat ramp
adjacent to property situated along the Little Wicomico River in
Northumberland County.
5. DANIEL R. NEWTON,
#03-1389. Commission review of the July 24, 2003 decision
of the Accomack County Wetlands Board to approve the filling of 6,000
square feet of vegetated wetlands along Chesconessex Creek in the
Schooner Bay area of Accomack County.
6. VIRGINIA
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, #02-0950, requests authorization
to replace the existing bridges over Black Narrows and Chincoteague
Channels with a single 5,819-foot long, low-level bridge and bascule
span structure on a new alignment beginning at the western side of
Black Narrows Channel and terminating at Maddox Boulevard on
Chincoteague Island in Accomack County. The new bridge structure
will include a 751-foot long connector road to Marsh Island. The
proposed bridge alignment is protested by many residents of
Chincoteague and Marsh Island.
7. RICHMOND
METROPOLITAN AUTHORITY, #02-1025, requests authorization
to relocate 383 linear feet of stream channel and extend an existing
box culvert an additional 83 linear feet within Powhite Creek as part
of a proposed widening of Powhite Parkway in the City of
Richmond. The project is protested by two adjoining property
owners.
8. PUBLIC COMMENTS
9. PUBLIC HEARING:
proposed amendments to regulation 620 to establish trip limits and
opening date for the fall season commercial flounder fishery.
10. PUBLIC HEARING:
proposed amendments to Regulation 650 and 720 to establish the 2003/04
oyster harvest rules.
11. PUBLIC HEARING:
proposed amendments to Regulation 950 to establish provisions for the
2004 commercial black sea bass fishery.
12. Discussion: the 2003/04
Spiny Dogfish fishery; request to lower quota and adjust trip limits.
Request for public hearing.
13. Recommendations of the
Recreational Fishing Advisory Board.
PAGE 2 ITEMS (Projects over $50,000
with no
objections and with staff recommendation for approval)
2A. VAUGHN &
JACKSON, LLC, #03-0894, request authorization to construct a
roadway crossing consisting of three (3) 38-foot long culverts, fill
and paving over 40 linear feet of Back Creek in Roanoke County.
Recommend a royalty in the amount of $760.00 for the encroachment over
1,520 square feet of State-owned subaqueous bottom at a rate of $0.50
per square foot.
2B. CYPRESS COVE
VILLAS ASSOC., INC., #03-1578, requests authorization to install
1,100 linear feet of bulkhead aligned a maximum of two (2) feet
channelward of the existing deteriorated bulkhead adjacent to their
property situated along Lily Creek in the City of Portsmouth.
Recommend a royalty of $2,200.00 for the filling of 2,200 square
feet at a rate of $1.00 per square foot.
2C. RICHARD BARRY,
III, #03-1577, requests authorization to construct
approximately 700 linear feet of breakwater and sill stone structures;
install marsh toe stabilization; and place up to 21,000 cubic yards of
beach nourishment with appropriate dune vegetation plantings at and
adjacent to his property situated along the James River in the City of
Suffolk. Recommend a royalty of $1,050.00 for the beach
nourishment encorachment over 21,000 square feet at a rate of $0.05 per
square foot.
2D. SEA SEA AND
COMPANY, ET AL, #01-0471, requests a modification to their
previously issued permit to allow for the construction of 230 linear
feet of open-pile marginal wharf from Mamie Davis Park to the
channelward end of an existing rock jetty to provide four wet slips for
transient boat dockage and a pedestrian boardwalk in Phase I of the
Town of Occoquan's Riverfront Access Project.
2E. NAVY PUBLIC
WORKS CENTER, #03-1658, requests authorization to construct 26
finger piers along Pier 7 to create wet slips for recreational use at
their property situated within Little Creek Cove at Naval Amphibious
Base, Little Creek in Virginia Beach.
2F. HAMPTON YACHT
CLUB, #03-1602, requests authorization to dredge 2,700 cubic
yards of maintenance material and 100 cubic yards of new material from
a basin approximately 350-foot wide by 550-foot long and to maximum
depths of minus eight (8) feet below mean low water, to install
and backfill 344 linear feet of bulkhead aligned no more than two feet
in front of an existing deteriorated bulkhead, and install four (4)
six-foot wide main piers, a total of 52 small finger piers and seven
(7) large finger piers adjacent to their property situated along the
Hampton River in Hampton. All dredged material will be
transported to and placed within the Craney Island disposal facility.
Recommend royalties of $45.00 for new dredging at a rate of $0.45 per
cubic yard, $1,376.00 for the fill of 688 square feet of
State-owned submerged lands at a rate of $2.00 per square foot, and an
annual royalty $746.95 for the encroachment over 14,939 square feet of
state-owned submerged lands at a rate of $0.05 per square foot.
FISHERY AGENDA ITEMS WILL BE CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION AT APPROXIMATELY 12:00 NOON AND WILL BE FOLLOWED WITH THE REMAINDER OF THE HABITAT PERMIT CASES.
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