This is another one of them river user v upland property owner things. You can offer your input, but unless you can prove the structure interferes with your use of the river as proctected by the Public Trust Doctrine, you may not have an impact on the final outcome.
The Oregon Division of State Lands requires an upland property owner to register any dock that rests on the state owned bed of a navigable stream. You can find out about the process at the following link.
http://statelands.dsl.state.or.us/dockregis.htm
Q. Why are you asking me to provide the names and addresses of everyone owning riparian land within 200 feet of my structure, and submit their comments?
A. If you own a structure which meets the requirements for registration, and was in place at the time that these rules were adopted (April 14, 1998), you do not have to provide DSL with this information. DSL assumes that the structure you own has gained acceptance from your neighbors and is, for all intents and purposes, considered by them to be "a part of the landscape."
However, if you construct or place a structure on state-owned submerged and submersible land after April 22, 1998, you must provide DSL with the above information. DSL requires this information to determine whether the structure you are proposing to build may interfere with the rights of the public (including neighboring riparian landowners) to use the waterway for fishing, navigation, commerce, and recreation. If it is determined to unreasonably interfere with these public trust rights, DSL may decide to place conditions on the registration or, if necessary, to not allow the structure to be built or placed at that particular location.
[ 01-24-2004, 04:19 PM: Message edited by: Scruffy Bearded Varmint ]
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