Who doesn’t want a She-Shed? Our new listing at 9799 169th Court N is a fully renovated CBS construction home in Jupiter Farms with a She-Shed and so much more. Enjoy peace and privacy on 1.25 acres in this high and dry lot close to Riverbend Park. This charming house has a newly renovated luxury kitchen with white wood cabinets, granite countertops, new LG appliances and large island. The kitchen is open to the family room, dining room and living room which splits the master suite from the two additional bedrooms. The home has a newly renovated spacious master suite with a large walk-in closet with barn doors, huge renovated luxury bathroom with double sink and large walk-in shower. Enjoy your morning coffee in one of the two private porches off the master suite. Beyond the interior, enjoy a large screened patio and huge pool. The covered seating area has accordian hurricane shutters that allow you to store your patio furniture without bringing it all inside. Outside the screened porch the home has multiple covered patios, including a grilling area gazebo, firepit area, vegetable garden, storage shed and the picture-perfect She-Shed which is air conditioned with electricity and water. This delightful She-Shed has a kitchenette and loft and can be used as an artist studio, office, den, gym or guest area. The property is fully fenced with one long paved driveway with an electric gate and another manual gate with an unpaved area with room to store additional vehicles, a boat or RV. The home has lots of fruit trees including mango, orange, lemon, cherry, avocado, lychee, coconut, papaya and many more.
Dates and Community Rating System Discounts for Palm Beach County
1219 N Lakeside Drive, Lake Worth
1219 N Lakeside Drive – This charming cottage in the Parrot Cove neighborhood of Lake Worth is CBS construction and was designed by Edgar S Norman. The home has views of the Lake Worth Golf Course and the intracoastal beyond and boasts a brand new 2021 roof and full impact doors and windows and a natural gas 20KW generator. Enter the home into a lovely window-lined sunroom with brick flooring and wood-beamed ceiling. The living room and dining area have a working fireplace and Miami Dade hardwood floors. The renovated kitchen has wood cabinets, granite countertops and an office nook. The home has a large backyard with a spacious deck with plenty of room for both a sitting and dining area. The single car detached garage has a full bathroom and can easily be used as a home office, gym, or art studio. The Parrot Cove neighborhood has no HOA fees. Enjoy living in a neighborhood where you can easily enjoy neighboring Lake Worth Golf Course, shops, restaurants and the multiple annual art, antique and food festivals.
The “Public Trust” doctrine for navigable waters in Florida.
I read a VERY INTERESTING article today and I leaned something new. I have written about about the meander line and how that is shown on plats in Jupiter area. I also write about the troubles around this shown when perhaps not applicable along the C-17 a/k/a Earman River in North Palm Beach.
What I learned is that there are 2 types of land “owned’ by the state. The first is land which they acquired as a result of being granted statehood. This is what is called sovereign lands and was to be held in public trust. Sovereign, as in the Kings Land. Wait what? The original 13 colonies got, when we won the war for independance, the land below navigable waters as this was owned by the sovereign (the king) so subsequent states got this land too as the had to be on “equal footing” with the origioanl 13. Sovereign land is the lands below “navigable rivers, lakes, and tidelands are held in a public trust which imposes a legal duty upon the state to preserve and control them for public navigation, fishing, swimming, and other lawful uses.” The courts in Florida have upheld that even is one has a deed conveying these lands that the state had no right to sell it. WOW!
The second type of land the state acquired title to NOT as a result of simply becoming a state but lands which the Federal government GAVE to them by Act(s) of Congress with the INTENTION of being sold to, and utilized by, private citizens. I have written of how this land was used to create what would become the intracoastal waterway in the area. This is what is called “improvements lands”. These lands were sold to, or traded to, developers as payment for the creation of say a mile of canal, roadway or of a railroad.
In “1855 Florida Legislature created the Internal Improvement Fund, which consisted of title to internal improvement lands and swamp lands and all proceeds from the sale of such lands. The legislature then vested title to the internal improvement lands and swamp lands in the “Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund” (the governor and cabinet) and gave them authority to sell and transfer the lands as prescribed by statute.”
History of the Earman River
OK, so perhaps you have read my blog posting on the what is called the Earman River and the issues with North Palm Beach Properties. In fact though, the “earman River” is NOT a river. It never was a river. It’s the C-17 canal managed by the South Florida Water Management District. Why do we call it the Earman River? I thought we had picked it up as a marketing name from the the developer of North Palm Beach. No one would pay more to live on the ‘C-17 Canal’ but the ‘Earman River’, that sounds VERY nice, someone just might pay me extra $$ to live on that. But as usual that’s about 1/2 the story.
Way back when the state of Florida was granted statehood, what we today call Lake Worth was an actual fresh water lake. On the west bank ONE WOULD ASSUME there was a small creek around where the C-17 is. Basic laws of human action are that we take the ath of least resistance whenever possible. Why do more work than we have to. So I would assume there was something there but perhaps not. I found this survey of the area done in 1859 and it clearly does NOT show any inlets or rivers. Thus it’s appears safe to say that the C-17 canal was not navigable in 1845 when florida entered the union as it was not “meandered” in 1859. Earman was the guy who farmed that area in the early 1900’s. Story is that he and a few other guys dug out this ( I assume) already low lying creek to drain the adjacent land for farming. It was “officially named for Earman after his death in 1932” according to a PB Post article anyway. But to be clear it was NEVER a river and we really should stop calling it that as it’s the farthest thing from it. Not only is it overflowed lands BUT the SFWMD controls it and they can dredge it anytime they want without much regard for permits. This is an aerial image from 1958, and it is very clearly a man made canal. Thus, adjacent property owners would not enjoy “Riparian Rights“.
I copied this from the Palm Beach History web site…
| “From 1918 to 1923, in what is now Lake Park, there was an Earman Post Office. John Sites Earman was voted the first mayor of West Palm Beach when it was incorporated in 1894. Although he lived with his family in downtown West Palm Beach, Earman farmed north of town in the area that is now Lake Park and North Palm Beach. As preparation for the dredging of the Florida East Coast Canal in 1897, a ditch was dug south of the haulover from Lake Worth Creek in order to help drain the land for farming. Joseph Borman, before he became Palm Beach |
US-1 Bridge Replacement over Earman River / C-17
02/16/2023 – UPDATE – The FDOT page (no longer up 11/30/24) had this project (4428912) set to begin in the spring of 2023 and it was to be completed by the summer of 2024. They did NOT call for a full closure of this bridge. You may recall that a section of this bridge in North Palm Beach fell into the canal.
Then, as I understand it, the governor prioritized some propjects thoughout the state but NOT this one which stoped just after they laid out the road cones. The FDOT shows the 14.5M for this project as having been rolled forward in 2025 and being in the CST or construction phase.
Florida DOT paid of the Schwenkee family for some sort of clarification on the right to go over the C-17 that the plans for to replace the US-1 bridge over the C-17 in North Palm Beach by Frigates is moving forward. I got a letter from the Coast Guard as sort of a notice to abutters. THE BRIDGE IS GOING TO REMAIN OPEN DURING CONSTRUCTION. The plans now have the ‘opening’ for a boat to get both wider by about 10′ and taller by about 1.61′ but honestly though, who knows. The CURRENT mean high water clearance of that bridge is a little under 8′. I go under every time I’m out in the boat and I drop my bimini so I can but I can reach over my head and touch the beam no problem. They are reporting that Bridge Clearance is NOW 9.61′ ABOVE MHW. Maybe to the bottom of the deck but not the beams holding it up. The section they provide below shows the ‘Low Member’ Elevation at +11.58 (NAVD) and the MHW at +0.35′. Call it 11′ clear at MHW under the new bridge or 3′ more clearance than the now +/-8′. Someone important must live behind that bridge.
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