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City Council establishes $35 per linear foot rate for offshore moorings.
By Parimal M. Rohit
NEWPORT BEACH — The price to moor a boat in Newport Harbor just became a little more affordable. Boaters and residents filled the council chambers at Newport Beach City Hall on Jan. 26 to give council members input on the proposal to reduce mooring fees. The Newport Beach City Council, in
a 5-2 vote, set the new offshore moor- ing rate at $35 per linear foot, down from $55.43 per foot. Onshore moor- ing permit holders will see their rate reduced from $27.21 per foot to $17.50 per linear foot. The vote brings closure to a con- tentious issue where fees were left unchanged for more than a decade before City Hall dramatically increased rates nearly six years ago. Some mooring permit holders
urged council members to approve a $25 per linear foot fee. “It’s … not easy for governmental agencies to change fees for anything in a lower direction,” Newport Mooring Association Board Member Carter Ford said. Council member Ed Curry, who was one of the two elected officials opposed to the fee cut, said lowering fees is both difficult and damaging to the city. He estimated about 60 per- cent of Newport Harbor’s mooring holders do not live in Newport Beach. “This is a $500,000 annual … rev- enue cut to the city at a time when we need the Tidelands Funds to pay for what is estimated to be between $20 million and $60 million of seawall improvements,” Curry said. “Fiscal
“Until we make it a nice product like the Newport Harbor Yacht Club mooring field, that has a
shore boat, that has a work dock, that has a restroom, that has parking, then and only then can you justify raising the fee.” — Council member
Marshall “Duffy” Duffield
strength and security is not cutting the rate or revenue source that pays for a very needed, and currently unfunded, capital project that’s in the harbor.” Curry added the City Council should not wait so long to adjust mooring fees. “It’s on the council, historically, who have allowed these fees to stay pretty much where they were for 20 years, without adjusting them,” Curry said. Mayor Pro Tem Kevin Muldoon
retorted the spirit of assessing offshore and onshore mooring fees is not to maximize profits or revenues. The fees should be pegged to a fair market value assessment, he said. “As trustees of the tidelands trust our duty is not to concern ourselves with revenue. Nowhere … does it say, ‘you must squeeze the amount of rev- enue from the users in order to pay for other uses the City Council designates within the harbor,” Muldoon said. “What [the trust] does call for is a fair market value, and that’s what I believe we are reaching here at $35 per linear foot.” Council member Marshall “Duffy”
Duffield compared owning a mooring in Newport Harbor to living in a slum
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