Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2016 23:41:56 GMT
I was looking thru stilts, and what people put on them in relation to water, and ran across a Wikipedia page about Stiltsville. Basically, the state decided it owned the sand bars the houses were built on, then deeded that to the federal gov. Somewhere along the way, new laws and old laws were made to cover the site. Then rents were imposed, and finally, the federal gov said the houses would be destroyed in 1999. The owners made a deal to save the homes, but they no longer own them, they pay rent, and must maintain them to federal standards. That's not the only place Florida has seen stilt houses spring up, but like Stiltsville, they are all gone now.
The biggest reason i believe buying end-of-life oil platforms is it gives permission to be there (verify that with the permitting agency for that platform). You don't have that permission on a boat. You might get that permission as a commercial business if you jump thru all the pricey hoops about environmental damage and hold enough hearings for years, and file enough paperwork thru enough pricey lawyers.
There's spots in the bayous of the MissRiver delta that belong to people who owned land there before. Before the land disappeared (sank, eroded, bulldozed, etc). And i recently saw land plats along a waterfront, the plat drawings were in the same place, altho 80% of the land that was there is gone. I believe it's a universal common law(?) in the usa that you can recover land that's gone underwater as long as some part of it is above water at high tide, even if the land connecting it to the mainland disappears. I believe that technically, you can do things to the submerged lands you own per the title to that land when it was above the waterline. So if you bought 5 acres and only one was still above water, you could go out 400ft into the water and sit a marina dock on the bottom on poles. Since land owners are generally allowed to put docks from their land out into the main water body, for a yearly fee to the gov agency empowered to collect those fees, you've escaped that because your dock is inside your land boundries. Depending on your situation, there could be other benefits. And downsides, for instance, if the marsh in the area is "protected wetlands", and that body of marsh intrudes onto your submerged lands, you may be unable to occupy that marsh area in any way, shape, or form (i saw that happen).
The biggest reason i believe buying end-of-life oil platforms is it gives permission to be there (verify that with the permitting agency for that platform). You don't have that permission on a boat. You might get that permission as a commercial business if you jump thru all the pricey hoops about environmental damage and hold enough hearings for years, and file enough paperwork thru enough pricey lawyers.
There's spots in the bayous of the MissRiver delta that belong to people who owned land there before. Before the land disappeared (sank, eroded, bulldozed, etc). And i recently saw land plats along a waterfront, the plat drawings were in the same place, altho 80% of the land that was there is gone. I believe it's a universal common law(?) in the usa that you can recover land that's gone underwater as long as some part of it is above water at high tide, even if the land connecting it to the mainland disappears. I believe that technically, you can do things to the submerged lands you own per the title to that land when it was above the waterline. So if you bought 5 acres and only one was still above water, you could go out 400ft into the water and sit a marina dock on the bottom on poles. Since land owners are generally allowed to put docks from their land out into the main water body, for a yearly fee to the gov agency empowered to collect those fees, you've escaped that because your dock is inside your land boundries. Depending on your situation, there could be other benefits. And downsides, for instance, if the marsh in the area is "protected wetlands", and that body of marsh intrudes onto your submerged lands, you may be unable to occupy that marsh area in any way, shape, or form (i saw that happen).