Sign this petition to say NO to unfair taxation for boats in Marina del Rey. Are you a boat owner, fisherman, enjoy going out on the ocean?
Sign this petition NOW and tell the California Water Quality Board NO!
- Do NOT charge every boat owner $1,039 per boat per year for a Copper Paint Compliance License. These fees are outrageous!
- Do NOT make boat owners remove current bottom paint and replace it with an, as of yet, unproven bottom paint.
Please sign this petition and forward it to everyone that you know to sign and forward by this Wednesday, 2/5! The Board meets on Thursday, 2/6 in Los Angeles Make your voice heard and protest these outrageous fees NOW!
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Reached 100 supporters
February 6, 2014
59 Comments
Paint on boats is not the problem. Manage Pollutants from street runoff, people dumping in storm drains / Ballona creek etc.
I own a 32 foot sailboat in the Marina. I would have to sell my boat f this goes through. i jst spent 2000 painting my bottom..
Requesting a credit or some other financial assistance with this new requirement, since a private boatowner is not the same as a business entity that has to dispose of hazardous waste and having to maintain permits for such.
Unfair, foolish, expensive, ineffective in fixing an unproven problem, will burden boat owners with an unnecessary and unreasonable burden to fix a problem that does not exist on their boats, will burden the available boatyards in MDR, will kill recreational boating in Los Angeles County.
No on the copper paint issue! It's not well studied, thought out or structured anywhere else in California. Is states a guess at 200 million for the county and tens of thousands per boat for each private boat owner. More research and qualified study us needed. The test results that are used as a basis arr in accurate and not relative to the study or what's really occurring in the marina.
We're taxed enough already
it's the death of a dream
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Sign this petition to say NO to unfair taxation for boats in Marina del Rey. Are you a boat owner, fisherman, enjoy going out on the ocean?
Sign this petition NOW and tell the California Water Quality Board NO!
- Do NOT charge every boat owner $1,039 per boat per year for a Copper Paint Compliance License. These fees are outrageous!
- Do NOT make boat owners remove current bottom paint and replace it with an, as of yet, unproven bottom paint.
Please sign this petition and forward it to everyone that you know to sign and forward by this Wednesday, 2/5! The Board meets on Thursday, 2/6 in Los Angeles Make your voice heard and protest these outrageous fees NOW!
Updates
Reached 100 supporters
February 6, 2014
59 Comments
This draconian propoposal is preposterous. The sane method to approach this isue to make sure that all bottom paint sold from this date be compliant with the new regulations. Impose heavy fines on all who do not used the new approved paints. That is all that is needed to gradually improve the MDR waters
Paint on boats is not the problem. Manage Pollutants from street runoff, people dumping in storm drains / Ballona creek etc.
I own a 32 foot sailboat in the Marina. I would have to sell my boat f this goes through. i jst spent 2000 painting my bottom..
Requesting a credit or some other financial assistance with this new requirement, since a private boatowner is not the same as a business entity that has to dispose of hazardous waste and having to maintain permits for such.
Unfair, foolish, expensive, ineffective in fixing an unproven problem, will burden boat owners with an unnecessary and unreasonable burden to fix a problem that does not exist on their boats, will burden the available boatyards in MDR, will kill recreational boating in Los Angeles County.
No on the copper paint issue! It's not well studied, thought out or structured anywhere else in California. Is states a guess at 200 million for the county and tens of thousands per boat for each private boat owner. More research and qualified study us needed. The test results that are used as a basis arr in accurate and not relative to the study or what's really occurring in the marina.
We're taxed enough already
it's the death of a dream
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This draconian propoposal is preposterous. The sane method to approach this isue to make sure that all bottom paint sold from this date be compliant with the new regulations. Impose heavy fines on all who do not used the new approved paints. That is all that is needed to gradually improve the MDR waters