As viewed from the Intracoastal Waterway, one of the homes in the Bluewater Cove portion of Place Au Soleil will be two stories. Rendering provided
By Steve Plunkett
The second of two Bluewater Cove houses on the Intracoastal Waterway has, as predicted, two stories fronting the water, and the empty parcel just to the north will be home to two mangrove nurseries.
The new residence will be a 6,967-square-foot single-family home in the Anglo-Caribbean style with a three-car garage and swimming pool.
Getting the OK to build a sea wall and 5-foot-wide docks for that home and the other Bluewater Cove waterfront property was arduous, developer Paul Courchene told the Gulf Stream Town Commission on Oct. 11.
“It took us over 3½ years to get the Army Corps of Engineers’ approval,” he said.
Neil Wood, an engineer with Delray Beach-based Sea Diversified Inc., said part of their proposal included changes to the Florida Inland Navigation District acreage to the north of the 14-home development in Place Au Soleil.
“We needed to provide mitigation for the removal of some black and red mangroves, so on the FIND property we have these two mangrove planters which are, combined, about 1,400 square feet,” Wood said. “They’ll be planted with 1-foot or 1½-foot staggered red and black mangroves.”
These nurseries will be at the north and south ends of the FIND parcel, with rock revetment in between sloping down to the water.
After their brief presentation, Mayor Scott Morgan called for votes to permit the bulkhead, revetment and home construction on a portion of the town on the west side of the Intracoastal.
“We don’t want to hold you up any more than the federal government has,” Morgan said.
Cary Glickstein, also on the development team, told commissioners last December that he expected both Bluewater Cove houses on the Intracoastal would be two stories, but the people who bought the first waterfront lot opted for a one-story, 6,343-square-foot Georgian-style home.
The land that is now Bluewater Cove was previously owned by FIND, which swapped its waterfront acreage with the Gulf Stream Golf Club, which then sold the property to the developer of the street. FIND commonly keeps its land undeveloped to use as storage sites for ICW dredging.
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