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BOARD OF
COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
COUNTY
ADMINISTRATOR
DOUGLAS M. ANDmSON
October 24, 2006
Destin Beach, Inc.
Lloyd Bell
681 Hidden River Drive
Port St. Lucie, FL., 34983-2739
Dear Mr. Bell:
This is in response to your September 29th letter regarding Destin Beach's
application for a Submerged Land Lease for Berth 4 at the Port of Fort Pierce.
In that letter you indicated that Destin Beach is willing to discuss the County's
request to use the property owned by you as a disposal site for the future
dredging of Taylor Creek.
This letter is to notify you that the County will be relocating the spoil site off
your property and will be notifying you when it is prepared to remove the dirt.
Weare in the process of attaining cost estimates at this time to remove the
spoil site and plan on having a contract in place by the first quarter of 2007
with construction commencing soon thereafter.
The Board of County Commissioners at their October 24th meeting approved
the dismantling of the spoil site on your property.
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DESTIN BEACH, INC.
Lloyd Bell
681 SE Hidden River Drive
Saint Lucie West. Florida 34983-2739
September 29, 2006
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Dear Mr. Anderson:
Thank you for hosting our meeting on Monday, September 2S.
The purpo~e of this correspondence is to memorialize and to follow up on several
matters that we discussed during our meeting.
We provided you with copies of various drawings~ including drawings describing
the location of the proposed cargo operations at Bertb 4~ which are the subject of the
pending application for sovereign submerged lands lease (See Sheet C-06A).
As you requested, we also provided you with a drawing showing the 1ocaUon of
these proposed operations if they were to be relocated to Berth 1 area, as the County has
suggested (See Sheet C-03A). As we explained, relocating these operations to Berth 1·
area would require the County to immediately move and restore the spoil disposal site
which was used by the County during 2004 to Ju1y 28,2006 when we informed the DEP
that the county docs not have any permission to use the spoil area.
You have advised us that the County again desires t() use some part of the
property for a spoil site for Phase 2. This site will receive spoil from the dredging of
Taylor Creek, which proposed dredging is the subject of a pending application filed with
the Department of Enviromnental Protection. You have indicated the County will require
the use of this spoil site beginning next spring and through 2008 (a.nd possibly into 2009).
Weare willing to discuss your request to use the property as a disposal site~ and
invite you to submit specific proposals for our review ¡md consideration. We are aware
that the County desires that we relocate our cargo operations from the Berth 4 area to thc
Berth 1 ~\fea. This of course means that the County would be required to promptly
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relocate the ~poil disposal site nom the Berth 1 area to the Berth 4 area, a.ll at
considerable expense to the County and its taxpayers. We therefore have suggested to
consider delaying the relocation of our cargo operations from Berth 4 to Berth 1 to allow
the County to continue to use the existing spoil site at Berth l! provided we are allowed
to undertake the proposed cargo operations at Berth 4 unti1 the County bas completed the
use (and restoration) of the existing spoil disposal site at Berth 1.
We think this latter proposal would save the County and its taxpayers
considerable time and expense.
In any event, we look forward to receiving a written description of the County's
proposals for the use of the property as a. spoil disposal site. These proposals ShOlÙd take
into consideration our proposed operations as described in the dru-wings we provided to
you.
Again, thank you for hosting our meeting on Monday. We look forward to
bringing these matters to a mutually satisfactory conclusion.
Sincerely yours,
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Michael Ravelo
Fort Pierce Waterfront 'ferminals LLC
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Destin Beach Inc.
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Larry Sellers, Holland & Knight LLP
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