Thank you for the quick reply. That is discouraging but I'll keep my fingers crossed that it it gets reinstated. In the meantime, I read another clause that might apply and I wonder if you could confirm or correct my understanding.
"However, alteration or expansion of a nonconforming structure may expand the existing footprint within the waterfront buffer, provided the structure is not extended closer to the reference line and the proposal or property is made more nearly conforming than the existing structure or the existing conditions of the property."
So I take that to mean, in my case, that I could still add the deck, or even add to the house for that matter, within the waterfont buffer as long as it doesn't get any closer to the water than what my house is now and I make the property more nearly conforming by, among other things, enhancing stormwater management. Am I reading that right?
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