(a) The lake structure administrator and the lake advisory board shall review each lake structure permit application for a cluster mooring facility. The application review will confirm that the proposed facility conforms to these regulations, evaluate its impact on the lake's carrying capacity, and determine that the location will not be adverse to navigation and boating safety or to any nearby residential area. A recommendation based on this review will then be submitted to council. The council shall approve or deny the request after examining the report.
(b) Cluster mooring facilities shall only be installed adjacent to upland lot zoned for resort or commercial use. The same requirements apply to cluster mooring facilities as do to all other lake structures except they shall have no walls or roofs. Canopies attached to or installed above boat lifts are considered roofs and are prohibited in cluster mooring facilities. Such facilities may not have more than three individual permanent moorings per 100 feet of measurable shoreline of lake front property that is owned by the applicant and that is free of any lake structures (other than sea walls and boardwalks). Existing private docks or boathouses must be removed prior to construction of a cluster mooring facility and no private docks or boathouses can be applied for or constructed adjacent to the upland lot for which a cluster mooring facility has been approved. All moorings shall be classified as permanent or temporary, numbered, and with signage that is viewable from the lake which indicates classification and number of each mooring.
(c) For areas with upland lots that are zoned for resort use, the lake front property that is used in the formula for determining the number of moorings must be contiguous with the site of the proposed cluster mooring facility and the same lake front property must be developed with roads and structures in place prior to review of the application. If any existing mooring facilities are to be included in the total moorings of the mooring facility, they will be factored into the total slips calculated with the above formula.
(d) For areas with upland lots zoned and utilized for commercial purposes, only temporary moorings shall be allowed. A maximum of three craft owned by the operators of the commercial establishment may be permanently moored at the establishment's cluster mooring facility.
(Code 1989, § 94.13; Ord. of 4-12-2005; Ord. of 8-14-2007; Ord. of 4-12-2016)