Maybe limiting commercial usage would free up parking and rather than doing safety briefings for the rentals while parking in the launch area would have made those launching private boats more convient.
An exclusive commercial area would be nice, but the charter guys pay a special $200 or $250 annual fee to use county boat ramps. Until a couple of years ago there was no fee.
What is actually needed is an additional much larger boating facility on the bay, but with land costs what it is that would be a long shot. If the county already owns sufficient land on the bay then that would be a different story.
Don't forget Pilcher, Grady Brown, Legion... And a couple in Freeport.
Absolutely, I wonder why business interest haven't purchase one and developed it. My issue is more along the line where you back in, then do your safety brief with the renter tying up the ramp so others can't use it. Then the way parking is done. BTW, 200/250 is cheap surprised that business tax was levied as the Commissioners seem to find it difficult to do something similar for other businesses. I suppose that is the reason those companies feel entitled to tie up the ramp the way they do.
