Daugette Marina

NightAngel, unfortunately for you, it doesn't look like posting here is garnering you any favor. Nobody is in your shoes and Tom has a lot of friends and clout so don't take it personally. Not saying anything re: him (or you for that matter) personally, I don't know him and he doesn't know me. it's just my perception. It doesn't appear he is using SoWal to make his case, he's going through the county as he should be. Attend the meeting and voice your concerns if you want to be heard. My $.02, you get what you pay for, lol.

NightAngel, unfortunately for you, it doesn't look like posting here is garnering you any favor. Nobody is in your shoes and Tom has a lot of friends and clout so don't take it personally. Not saying anything re: him (or you for that matter) personally, I don't know him and he doesn't know me. it's just my perception. It doesn't appear he is using SoWal to make his case, he's going through the county as he should be. Attend the meeting and voice your concerns if you want to be heard. My $.02, you get what you pay for, lol.

I have already sent letters and pictures to the planning comittee apposing this marina and what kills me is how people keep telling me that they have been down my road but "they" never saw anything. Here is what I want all of you to do. Think about yourself and your house being across the street from this proposed "marina", and I mean 20 feet 2 inches from driveway to driveway and tell me that you would just be "okay" with it? Now, see what I mean. Would you just sit and do nothing? I didn't think so.
So stop judging and put yourself and your home in my shoes for a few minutes and think about someone telling you that they have been down your road and "they" never see anything. Would that not piss you off to no end? Yea, me too.

And those of you who never see anything on my street. I also bet you don't know that there is a woman that comes by my house almost everyday with about 4 dogs on leashes and says hi everytime. I also bet you don't know that there is a guy who rides his bike with his dog following close behind almost every Saturday. I bet you don't know that the house on Bay whose backyard butts up to mine was vacated and sat a mess for months but someone seems to have moved in the last week. And the spanish house down the road has been in ruins for years and the pool was a frog pond and those frogs get loud at night. See, I am sure you know all of these kinds of things where you live to but I would not know these things by just riding down your street on occasion. Are you getting it now?

I thought I was pretty clear that I wasn't taking sides because I'm not in your or his shoes. /shrug

I thought I was pretty clear that I wasn't taking sides because I'm not in your or his shoes. /shrug

That was not directed at just you and I thought that was pretty clear as well.

My bad. You quoted me so I assumed...no worries.

I just want others to see it from my point of view and the only way to do that is imagine yourself here and think about what is going to go on across the street with a Marina and oil and gasoline and engines reving up. One time about a year or more ago, Tom Stein cranked a large piece of machinery and parked it across the street and let it run for 2 days until I called the cops and they came by and made him shut it off saying he cannot do that and there is a noise ordinance for this sort of thing. Well, that was just 1 single piece of equipment, think about all of the boat engines that will be starting up and being worked on and coming and going whenever they please, don't you think the noise level will well exceed 1 piece of equipment, I do.
Okay, I am done with this nonsense. I just hope others can relate to why I am so mad about this subject and please, if you are opposed, please help by showing your support at the meeting. I can obviously use someone on my side here.

(ps) this is directed at whomever might be interested in reading it, no one person in particular.

Looks like they passed their first hurdle...

http://defuniakherald.com/?p=3838

The Walton County Planning Commission has recommended approval of seven new boat slips in the Daugette subdivision area...

Applicant Tom Stein had previously submitted plans for 10 new boat slips on the canal at his Ricker Street property in the Daugette subdivision. The lot contains a 2,000 square-foot office building with a three-bedroom apartment. There are currently four boat slips on the property. The docking facility is not open to the public and that status is to continue.


Mac Carpenter of Walton County Planning and Development Services explained that, through a compromise, Stein had agreed to reduce the number of new boat slips to seven. Carpenter said the applicant was proposing to utilize existing parking on the property for the boat slips through a shared parking agreement, with the 19 parking spaces to be available for uses associated with the slips only after business hours on weekdays and during the weekend.


Carpenter said no space would be provided for boat trailers on the property; they must be removed from the property after launching. Prohibitions have also been placed on parking and placing boat trailers on the county right-of-way in the vicinity.


For seven additional boat slips that the applicant has indicated he would like to add in a second phase of the project, along with any additional development on the property, a separate application and approval would be required, Carpenter told the planning commissioners.


Carpenter said the applicant has also agreed that covenants and leases for the boat slips will prohibit people using the slips from entering the residential driveway located across from the property
An engineer representing the applicant commented that parking had been the main issue with the proposal and that it had been addressed.


Lisa McCully, a Ricker Street resident and owner of the homes across the street from the property, disagreed. She objected to the increase in noise and traffic and the “oil, gas, and partying” that she was sure would accompany the expansion of the docking facility. “We have no clue who’s coming and going,” McCully said. She said vehicles from Stein’s property had already used her driveway for backing up, turning around, etc., and she did not see how they could be kept from doing so in the future….

The proposed expansion of the Daughette Marina is on the agenda for the County Commission this evening at 5 pm. All those wanting to be heard on this issue should attend.