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BAY ST. LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI
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VOL. 90, NO. 73
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1981
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Yacht club balks, mayor mum
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City council approves t beachfront restrictions
By WAYNE DUCOMB JR.
The Bay St. Louis City Council Tuesday night narrowly approved an ordinance prohibiting placing any structures on beachfront property except in the Downtown business district.
Specifically, the law will prohibit erection of anv permanent structures
on the bay side of Beach Boulevard except in an area roughly extending from the Louisville and Nashville Railroad crossing to the State Street intersection.
Aaron Adams of Waveland, an attorney representing the Bay-Waveland Yacht Club, argued, ?The ordinance forbids the yacht club from putting
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_ Biloxi-Gulfport, Miss., Friday, September 25, 1981
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I Bennett vetoes ordinance
I EDITH BIERHORST BACK 1 Bay Bureau Chief An ordinance prohibiting structures on the Bay St. Louis beaches, passed by the city council earlier this month after weeks of disputes, has been vetoed by Mayor Larry J. Bennett.
?We have to have an ordinance,? Bennett said, ?but we need to sit down and start all over.? Bennett said he vetoed the ordinance because "I had been advised that if it stood,'there were people who would take legal action because they thought it was unfair."
The ordinance adopted by the council oh Sep. 8, offered no exemptions to the prohibition against construction on the residential areas of the beach without specific council approval.
That ordinance, however, would not have affected the fence constructed around six lots adjoining the Bay Bridge belonging to New Orleans musician Pete Fountain.
Since the 1972 ordinances governing beach structures found by city attorney Joseph W. Gex to contain technical errors which voided
them. Fountain violated no laws when he had the fence erected.
Several versions of proposed ordinances were rejected by the council before it adopted the one proposed by Councilman James ; Thriffiley III.
One version gave an exemption to the Fountain property, but it was 1 withdrawn after other beachfront | property owners threatened litigation if Fountain was offered rights not available to others.
Another offered no exemption for the Fountain property but did exempt properties of the Bay-Waveland Yacht Club and the American Legion, both of which are in residential-zoned neighbor- > hoods. The adopted version which j exempted no one, squeezed by on the 3-2 vote.	!
By the same margin, and with the same councilmen voting in the minority ? Thriffiley and Gary Eugene Taylor ? the council voted .; to over-ride Bennett?s veto Tues- i day. The veto stands, since at least four votes are required to over-ride , it.
anything on its property.
Although the ordinance states it is effective immediately, City Clerk Edward Favre late Wednesday afternoon reported P.L. Douglas of the State Attorney General?s office in Jackson said in a telephone conversation earlier that day the law could not be imposed for 30 days due to the split vote.
Favre said an ?emergency ordinance? must have unanimous council approval . to immediately become a local law.
Mayor Larry Bennett Wednesday morning would not comment when asked if he would veto the beach restriction.
Adams said at the council meeting, ?This law prohibits the yacht club from
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