The Marathon City Council will hold its normal workshop on Monday Jan. 22. The date has been shifted to Monday as the city council and staff will be heading north to Tallahassee for Florida Keys Day. The city will take advantage of the week to speak to state legislators as the legislative session enters its third week.
Subjects for this coming Monday’s meeting will be:
- A discussion of recent hurricane evacuation modeling by the state and the consequences of that modeling on future Building Permit Allocation System residential units; and
- Revisions to the Quay boat ramp and park project to potentially provide for two boat ramps at that site.
The city has significant concerns related to “takings” liability in light of recent decisions rendered by the 3rd District Court of Appeals for the state. The city holds applications for 81 market rate BPAS allocations and 40 affordable BPAS allocations. Among the 121 applications for BPAS allocations, 48 have reached a point at which they could potentially request Administrative Relief BPAS allocations, of which there are only 12. Recent estimates in Marathon indicate that there are about 1,026 vacant parcels within the city, 556 of which are estimated as buildable, with 215 of those 556 being waterfront properties. The city is committed to working with Monroe County and each of the other municipalities to develop a positive future scenario for BPAS (ROGO).
Concerning the Quay property, the city had developed a plan to develop the property as a community park. The city council in review of that plan requested that staff realign the plan to provide two boat ramps at the site while continuing to plan for a park function. City staff has developed two options that may work to accomplish the council’s request These options will be presented and potential costs for each will be provided.
