Click for JetForums Click for Westport Click for Abeking Click for Ocean Alexander Click for Abeking

Vote YES Amendment 6 in Florida

Discussion in 'General Yachting Discussion' started by yachtbrokerguy, Oct 23, 2008.

You need to be registered and signed in to view this content.
  1. Notice to Florida Voters.
    Amendment 6 is on the ballot to help the marine industry stay alive in Florida. Currently, county tax appraisors are required to value a property at 'highest and best" use. For a waterfront boat yard or marina, the property might be valued instead as a condo site, and the taxes could be very high. Amendment 6 requires that for working waterfront, the property be taxed at actual use of the property.

    For more details see www.saveourwaterfronts.org

    For all YF posters who work in the marine industryin Florida, please make sure this thread gets bumped on a regular basis until election day.

    VOTE YES ON AMENDMENT 6
  2. YachtForums

    YachtForums Administrator

    Joined:
    Dec 22, 2002
    Messages:
    20,611
    Location:
    South Florida
    Ditto! Thanks for bringing attention to this Tucker.
  3. xdub

    xdub New Member

    Joined:
    Oct 4, 2008
    Messages:
    8
    Location:
    Fort Lauderdale
    Thank you Tucker.Lucy Reed at The-Triton is also bringing attention to this extremely important issue,we have lost too many boatyards as it is.
    xdub
  4. Here is a letter from BOAT US about the amendment.

    Help Preserve Florida's Working Waterfronts

    Dear BoatUS Member,

    In recent years dozens of Florida wet-slip marinas, waterfront dry stack storage facilities and boat service yards have been squeezed out of business by huge increases in real estate taxes, leaving you and your fellow boaters with fewer and fewer places to keep your boats and higher slip fees and storage costs.

    Why is this happening? Because the current property appraisal system in Florida forces counties to apply "highest and best use" value to waterfront business property, not current use value. That means the businesses we boaters rely on are taxed as if they were high-end condominiums or waterfront resorts. You can help change that at the polls on November 4th:

    A "Yes" vote on Amendment 6 will bring down the property taxes on the following marine working waterfronts to reflect the property's current use:

    Marinas and docks open to the public for water access and recreational uses;
    Public vessel launches into navigable inland and coastal waterways;
    Commercial fishing facilities;
    Water-dependent marine manufacturing facilities;
    Marine vessel construction and repair facilities.
    BoatUS supports Amendment 6 and we hope you will too on Nov 4. We need your help to get the 60% voter approval required to pass this very important amendment.

    For more information: www.saveourwaterfronts.com

    Please feel free to share this with your boating and fishing friends.

    Margaret Podlich
    Vice President of Government Affairs
    GovtAffairs@BoatUS.com
  5. Norseman

    Norseman Senior Member

    Joined:
    Feb 24, 2005
    Messages:
    3,110
    Location:
    Ft. Lauderdale
    Consider it done, 2 votes from this household..
  6. I have been busy at the boat show, time for a last thread bump before election day.
  7. CaptTom

    CaptTom Senior Member

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2006
    Messages:
    1,949
    Location:
    Palm Beach to Ft Lauderdale
    Tucker,
    Thanks for the reminder. A few YES votes from my house.
  8. CaptTom

    CaptTom Senior Member

    Joined:
    Jan 26, 2006
    Messages:
    1,949
    Location:
    Palm Beach to Ft Lauderdale
    Thanks to everyone who voted. Amendment 6 has passed with 70% of the votes.
  9. YachtForums

    YachtForums Administrator

    Joined:
    Dec 22, 2002
    Messages:
    20,611
    Location:
    South Florida
    What I want to know is... who were the idiots responsible for legislation that taxed waterfront property on its highest and best use...? And why can't we hold these people liable for their stupidity?

  10. Arniev

    Arniev Senior Member

    Joined:
    Nov 1, 2005
    Messages:
    418
    Location:
    Monterey, CA, USA
    Carl,
    I hope these bozos you are talking about didn't get re-elected!
    Arnie
    :)
  11. GFC

    GFC Senior Member

    Joined:
    May 21, 2008
    Messages:
    221
    Location:
    Tri Cities, WA
    I'm not from FL so I don't have an interest in this issue...except that if that was allowed to happen in FL it would spread across the country.

    The only way to try to ensure those bozo's don't get elected is to publicize the names of the people behind that bad law. Shouldn't be too difficult to find out who sponsored the original law and get their names out.

    Can you money grubbing politicians are not among my favorite people? :mad:
  12. PropBet

    PropBet Senior Member

    Joined:
    Apr 21, 2007
    Messages:
    1,216
    Location:
    Is Everything!
    Good to see the voice of reason and reality came through for Fl.