New info, council may alter proposal’s outcome
by Tom Chillemi –
Since at least 2015, the Urbanna Town Council has debated how to use the town-owned 30-foot-wide strip of land where Virginia Street meets Urbanna Creek.
The idea of a “kayak” dock has been proposed and argued about by council for years. The strip of land is about 75 yards from the town marina.
Dinghy dock
On Oct. 27, the waterfront committee presented to council and the public its recommendations that include building a “dinghy dock” at the end of Virginia Street. The floating dinghy dock would be for boats that would tie up to proposed mooring buoys on the east side of Urbanna Creek and access the town via the dinghy dock.
Mooring buoys
The dinghy dock plan hit a snag when the committee learned, after making its recommendations last month, that Urbanna Creek’s bottom on the east is “soft” and would require screw pilings as anchors, committee member Mike Jolly told council at its Nov. 17 meeting. Screw pilings would increase the cost for each mooring to between $7,000 and $10,000. “We’ll never get that money back,” Jolly told council, “and we (will have) taken away the drop anchorage…”
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