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House Agrees To Ban Nightime Anchoring In Portions of South Florida

The House voted Friday to create zones in Miami-Dade and Broward counties that would ban night time anchoring. Waterfront property owners have been complaining for years about rowdy boaters.
The House voted Friday to create zones in Miami-Dade and Broward counties that would ban night time anchoring. Waterfront property owners have been complaining for years about rowdy boaters.

The House agreed Friday to protect some waterfront property owners in South Florida from noisy boaters.

The House voted Friday to create zones in Miami-Dade and Broward counties that would ban night time anchoring. Waterfront property owners have been complaining for years about rowdy boaters.
The House voted Friday to create zones in Miami-Dade and Broward counties that would ban night time anchoring. Waterfront property owners have been complaining for years about rowdy boaters.

Homeowners have been complaining for years about disturbances, and sometimes lewd behavior, from boaters anchored near their property.

The measure bans nighttime anchoring in portions of Biscayne Bay and Sunset Lake in Miami-Dade and Middle River in Broward.

Republican Representative Matt Caldwell of Fort Myers sponsored the measure.

Caldwell failed, however, to add a measure that would have created another protection zone in Okaloosa County.

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Jim Ash is a reporter at WFSU-FM. A Miami native, he is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience, most of it in print. He has been a member of the Florida Capital Press Corps since 1992.
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