Attorney general’s opinion fails to quiet debate on Jekyll Island growth | jacksonville.com

The Jekyll Island Authority must continue to include marsh above the mean high tide in calculating the land on the state park that could be developed, Attorney General Sam Olens said in an opinion released Thursday.

Olens’ opinion is contrary to the wishes of most members of an appointed task force working on a new master plan for the island, the first since 1996. The group said that any marsh covered by any tide, not just the average tide, should be excluded from the measurement of the island’s size.

Use of that measure would have put the island’s size at 3,817 acres, 409 acres less than the number used by the governing Jekyll Island Authority.

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