I disagree with this tax & paint change. I Am signing to fight for us fellow boat owners who should have rights in this regard. I stand with the others against this yearly tax charge & idea to change the boat paint on our marina vessels.
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Brad Terpak
12 years ago
Do NOT charge every boat owner $1,039 per boat per year for Copper Paint Compliace License. These fees are outrageous! Do NOT make current boat owners remove current bottem paintand replace it withan, as of yet unproven bottem paint.
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James Mitchell
12 years ago
This will absolutely destroy the Marina del Rey already fragile boating community. you guys are absolutely insane. This is outrageous.
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Brad Terpak
12 years ago
Do not charge ever 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 bottem paint and replace it with an , as of yet unproven bottem paint.
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Scott Espenshade
12 years ago
So a modest sized vessel would cost about $10k per year with this non-sense!
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john simmons
12 years ago
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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..
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Cort Haverly
12 years ago
Vote no
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daniel feldman
12 years ago
I definitely will be heading to Mexico if this nonsense becomes true.
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Anonymous
12 years ago
Stop with all the taxing!
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Christina Bernstein
12 years ago
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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.
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Larry Koch
12 years ago
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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.
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Frank Maddocks
12 years ago
This whole idea is stupid
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Jack Rackliffe
12 years ago
This regulation will strangle the boating comunity
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Jack Rackliffe
12 years ago
This is crazy....
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Michael Murbarger
12 years ago
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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.
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Michael Donovan
12 years ago
This is an unfair tax...
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PMYC Members
· petition starter
12 years ago
Please sign and pass it on TODAY!
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Tom Hall
12 years ago
Please send this Petition to ALL your friends ASAP!
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Robert Offermann
12 years ago
With regards to the current proposal: Imposing the requirements and expenses currently under consideration for recreational boaters in Marina Del Rey is both poorly conceived and utterly irresponsible. 1. Requiring a switch from copper-based antifouling to nontoxic biocides is far too preliminary: the alternatives are prohibitively expensive for most boaters and experimentally demonstrated to be substantially less effective. Boaters are by nature caring for our oceans and our natural environment - it is our natural environment that we seek to enhance our enjoyment of through sailing - but we also care for our boats and our finances. Asking us to spend more money to provide less care for our boats is counterproductive. Most of us will refuse - and leave Marina Del Rey. 2. By using less effective hull paints, those of us who cruise or even those who weekend sail to other nearby areas will, inevitably, aid in transplanting invasive species. The introduction and transportation of invasive species is already a major concern in Southern California - and the current proposal ignores those concerns in favor of the vain hope of lowering copper content. 3. There seems to be a great deal of concern about the methods of water quality testing in use - methods that are not agreed upon by the experts. Especially of note is that MDR is not a naturally occurring body of water. As an unflushed, man-made yacht harbor with no natural flow, contaminants of all kinds, man-made and natural, will be much higher. 4. Other sources of copper are neglected by the proposal. There's reason to believe that if we actually removed all of the boats from Marina Del Rey entirely, that copper levels would only marginally improve. Automotive brakes, fireworks in the marina (yep - we love the fireworks, but they rain copper into the water), drainage water sources, building materials from the constant construction in Marina Del Rey - these and a number of other sources contribute on an ongoing basis
I disagree with this tax & paint change. I Am signing to fight for us fellow boat owners who should have rights in this regard. I stand with the others against this yearly tax charge & idea to change the boat paint on our marina vessels.
Do NOT charge every boat owner $1,039 per boat per year for Copper Paint Compliace License. These fees are outrageous! Do NOT make current boat owners remove current bottem paintand replace it withan, as of yet unproven bottem paint.
This will absolutely destroy the Marina del Rey already fragile boating community. you guys are absolutely insane. This is outrageous.
Do not charge ever 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 bottem paint and replace it with an , as of yet unproven bottem paint.
So a modest sized vessel would cost about $10k per year with this non-sense!
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..
Vote no
I definitely will be heading to Mexico if this nonsense becomes true.
Stop with all the taxing!
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.
This whole idea is stupid
This regulation will strangle the boating comunity
This is crazy....
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.
This is an unfair tax...
Please sign and pass it on TODAY!
Please send this Petition to ALL your friends ASAP!
With regards to the current proposal: Imposing the requirements and expenses currently under consideration for recreational boaters in Marina Del Rey is both poorly conceived and utterly irresponsible. 1. Requiring a switch from copper-based antifouling to nontoxic biocides is far too preliminary: the alternatives are prohibitively expensive for most boaters and experimentally demonstrated to be substantially less effective. Boaters are by nature caring for our oceans and our natural environment - it is our natural environment that we seek to enhance our enjoyment of through sailing - but we also care for our boats and our finances. Asking us to spend more money to provide less care for our boats is counterproductive. Most of us will refuse - and leave Marina Del Rey. 2. By using less effective hull paints, those of us who cruise or even those who weekend sail to other nearby areas will, inevitably, aid in transplanting invasive species. The introduction and transportation of invasive species is already a major concern in Southern California - and the current proposal ignores those concerns in favor of the vain hope of lowering copper content. 3. There seems to be a great deal of concern about the methods of water quality testing in use - methods that are not agreed upon by the experts. Especially of note is that MDR is not a naturally occurring body of water. As an unflushed, man-made yacht harbor with no natural flow, contaminants of all kinds, man-made and natural, will be much higher. 4. Other sources of copper are neglected by the proposal. There's reason to believe that if we actually removed all of the boats from Marina Del Rey entirely, that copper levels would only marginally improve. Automotive brakes, fireworks in the marina (yep - we love the fireworks, but they rain copper into the water), drainage water sources, building materials from the constant construction in Marina Del Rey - these and a number of other sources contribute on an ongoing basis