My sister lives on an island, this would be like the nearest city saying we are going to close the only place you can legally dock your boat so you can either starve, or move somewhere else.
Granted it is easier for these people to move since they are on a boat, but it is still wrong (from what little I can tell from the article)
What happened to public access to and from public waterways? I understand the concern that boats be seaworthy, health, and so forth—that’s the US Coast Guard, correct? But access to and from the water, does the city now control state and federal waterways?