Below are areas where the Docktown floating community is similar to Sausalito, and are taken verbatim from the attached Govt. Code Statute of 2006 (Ch 403), (that took the Sausalito marinas out of the State Lands Grant area). - Portions of the granted land are now, and have been for many years, used for the permanent mooring of houseboats. - The use of the granted lands for the permanent mooring of houseboats is not a purpose in which there is a statewide public interest, but moving the houseboats would require the construction of new docks and other facilities followed by vessel relocation which would have potentially significant adverse impacts on San Francisco Bay. - The following portions of the granted lands are not, as a practical matter, used for navigation purposes and are not necessary for such purposes... - Shallow water depths in and immediately adjacent to the houseboat marinas render the marinas unsuitable as recreational boat harbors or for use by most shallow draft watercraft such as sailboats and larger recreational vessels. - The houseboats themselves are an obstacle to navigation because they are moored for extended periods in a single location, do not float at most stages of the tide, and cannot move under their own power. - The dredging necessary to render the houseboat marinas and immediately adjacent areas usable for other harbor purposes is currently impracticable and ecologically undesirable due to benthic contamination. - The houseboat marinas are also too shallow to be used for navigation by even small, shallow draft commercial watercraft. - Commercial port use is incompatible with existing surrounding land uses and water depths. Port use and water-related industrial uses or cargo transport use in or adjacent to the houseboat marinas are not desirable or feasible, even with significant dredging because of surrounding incompatible land uses and distance from deep-draft navigation channels. (Note also the close proximity of Port of RWC to manage commercial use.) - A sale or exchange pursuant to such an agreement will not diminish the amount of property potentially available for public trust uses because the lands conveyed to a private party pursuant to the agreement which are bayward of the agreed ordinary high water mark shall remain subject to the public trust.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 15:45:55 +0000
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