State evicting liveaboards in Washington

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Sep 24, 1999
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Hunter H46LE Sausalito
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In my area, Redwood City CA, liveaboard fees are skyrocketing because the bay commission and a few local governmental juristictions are restricting the number of liveaboard marinas and the amount of liveaboard slips in existing marinas. The marina where I used to live charged liveaboards more than $10 per foot per month, and last year they raised their slip fees 40% beyond that. A liveaboard friend of mine with a Columbia 45 saw his monthly fee increase by $500! And they're getting away with it because the people living there can't get liveaboard slips within 20 miles of their present locations. In the past year the city of Brisbane evicted all the liveaboards from their marina, many of whom had lived there more than a decade. Let me tell you something, Peggy, every time another slip or marina is closed to liveaboards, the remaining slips become more valuable to the marina owners. Here at Pete's Harbor, we all felt relieved last year when our leases were only bumped up 10%. And the waiting list here has gotten so long that the owner has announced that he isn't taking any more liveaboards. All this in a marina where you need three feet of tide to get out through the mud. Wake up and smell the roses, folks, crunch time is already here.
 
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Greg Stebbins

Suspiciously like something else...

If you took the water out of this issue, you would have.... Landlords trying to remove current higher maintenance tenants to bring in new lower maintenance tenants at a higher rent. Do you think the political types aren't moving at the behest of at least some of the marina "landlords"? Ha! The solutions of rent control and housing quotas never really worked for long anywhere. Political solutions can not achieve the granularity and economic sensitivity necessary to prevent the insurgence of urban or marina blight. Your only long-term solution might be to form a corporation of "live-aboard’s" and buy some or the entire marina. Or just go live on land like the rest of us poor slobs.
 
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