NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on July 20, 2010, the South Florida Water Management District (“District”), received a petition for waiver from the Lee County, Application No.: 10-0209-4, for utilization of Works or Lands of the District known as the C-43 Canal for an existing floating dock with canoe launch, and proposed shoreline stabilization consisting of rip-rap and native vegetation within the C-43 north right of way adjacent to Caloosahatchee Regional Park; Section 19, Township 43 South, Range 27 East, Lee County. The petition seeks relief from paragraph 40E-6.221(2)(j), Florida Administrative Code, which prohibits the placement of floating docks upstream of water control structures, and subsections 40E-6.011(4) and (6), Florida Administrative Code, which governs the placement of permanent and/or semi-permanent above-ground structures within 40 feet of the top of canal bank within Works or Lands of the District.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Juli Russell at (561)682-6268 or e-mail: jurussel@sfwmd.gov. The District will accept comments concerning the petition for 14 days from the date of publication of this notice. To be considered, comments must be received by the end of business on the 14th day at the: South Florida Water Management District, 3301 Gun Club Road, MSC #1414, West Palm Beach, FL 33406, Attention: Juli Russell, Office of Counsel.