NOTICE OF PUBLIC WORKSHOP & HEARING
Notice is hereby given that the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida is proposing the establishment of an Erosion Control Line, pursuant Section 161.161, Florida Statutes. A designee of the Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund will hold a Public Workshop and a Public Hearing immediately following the Workshop virtually on November 18, 2026 (Wednesday) at 5:00PM and ending at 7:00PM, Eastern, for the purpose of considering evidence bearing on the location of a proposed Erosion Control Line at Town of Jupiter, FL for the beach erosion control project known as the North County Comprehensive Shore Protection Project, Segment II. Attendance information for the meeting is:
Date: November 18, 2026 (Wednesday)
Time: 5:00PM to 7:00PM, Eastern
Location: Virtually using Microsoft Teams, at: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/2684623022759966?p=vbPHQFbEIB3Jx96o2D
Meeting ID: 268 462 302 275 996 6 Passcode: F8fC9qz6
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This workshop is the publics opportunity to ask questions about the proposed establishment of the Erosion Control Line at Town of Jupiter. This hearing is the publics opportunity to comment on, speak in support of, object to, and submit for consideration materials relevant to this methodology used for locating the proposed Erosion Control Line and relevant to the location of the proposed Erosion Control Line.
If approved by the Board of Trustees, the Erosion Control Line will be recorded in the Countys Book of Plats and will become the boundary between private uplands and sovereign submerged lands owned by the state.
The proposed Erosion Control Line lies along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline of the Town of Jupiter in Palm Beach County, FL, at the line of mean high water. The Erosion Control Line lies in Sections 8, 16 and 17, Township 41 South, Range 43 East, Palm Beach County, Florida. The total length of the Mean High Water Line and proposed Erosion Control Line is approximately 0.91 miles +/-. The location of the proposed Erosion Control Line is near FDEP Range Survey Monuments R-21.3 to R-25.9, being more particularly described as follows:
Commencing at FDEP Second Order Station "Panos 1970" (N936,635.68', E960,054.14', Florida State Plane Coordinate System, East Zone, NAD83/90); Bearings are referenced to said State Plane Coordinate Grid, with a bearing of N2855'38"W Between FDEP Monuments "93 89 A05" (N932,739.92', E962,207.12') and "Panos 1970" per coordinates listed on the Palm Beach County Coastal Construction Control Line Map of Record, Recorded in Plat Book 80, Page 137, Public Records Of Palm Beach County, Florida; Thence N0831'02"E, 4,713.34 feet to a point on the Mean High Water Line of the Atlantic Ocean as located April 6, 2026, at an Elevation Of +0.47 feet NAVD 88 and the Point Of Beginning (N941,297.04', E960,752.22'); Thence along said Mean High Water Line the following Seventeen (17) Courses: (1) S0909'10"E, 161.98 feet; (2) S1326'41"E, 299.95 feet; (3) S1822'07"E, 300.35 feet; (4)
S1401'06"E, 300.79 feet; (5) S1954'04"E, 301.18 feet; (6) S1336'35"E, 299.06 feet; (7) S1539'24"E, 299.59 feet; (8) S1929'00"E, 301.23 feet; (9) S1748'10"E, 301.17 feet; (10) S1523'33"E, 299.40 feet; (11) S1622'10"E, 299.36 feet; (12) S1527'03"E, 300.85 feet; (13) S1445'18"E, 300.60 feet; (14) S1134'18"E, 295.22 feet; (15) S1731'44"E, 304.73 feet; (16) S2351'46"E, 303.06 feet; (17) S2126'00"E, 123.69 feet to the Point of Termination of the herein described Mean High Water Line (N936,706.81', E962,100.88'); said Point of Termination lying N7323'52"E, 23.99 feet from the Point of Termination of the Erosion Control Line as Described in Mean High Water Survey No. 1800 (ECL1800), Recorded in Miscellaneous Plat Book 1, Page 21, Public Records of Palm Beach County, Florida (N936,699.96', E962,077.89'); Said Point of Termination of ECL1800 being N0152'09"W, 3,962.15 feet from FDEP Monument "93 89 A05".
After the Hearing, and if approved by the Board of Trustees designee, the Erosion Control Line will be recorded in the Countys Book of Plats and will become the boundary between private and public sovereign submerged lands owned by the state. Written objections to, or inquiries regarding, the proposed Erosion Control Line should be submitted to the Office of Resilience and Coastal Protection Beaches, Inlets, and Ports Program, Department of Environmental Protection, c/o William Guy Weeks, 2600 Blair Stone Road, Mail Station 3544, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400, (850) 245-7696, e-mail william.weeks@FloridaDEP.gov, prior to the date mentioned above. There will also be an additional two weeks after the hearing on November 18, 2026, to submit written comments or objections to Mr. William Guy Weeks. The Board of Trustees of the Internal Improvement Trust Fund of the State of Florida reserves the right to deny establishment of the Erosion Control Line.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT TRUST
FUND OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
RON DESANTIS, GOVERNOR
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