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Island exceeded development limits  6:45 AM, May 13, 2013   |  
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task force appointed to make recommendations about Jekyll
Island's future says the coastal state park may have exceeded
the legal limit to how much of its land can be developed.  The
Jekyll Island Authority governs the island. It has asked
Attorney General Sam Olens for a second opinion after the task
force concluded officials for decades wrongly counted marsh when
calculating the island's total acreage.  That's important
because a 1971 state law restricts development on Jekyll Island
to 35 percent of its land area. By excluding marsh, the task
force concluded 38 percent of the island's acreage was
developed.  Jekyll Island spokesman Eric Garvey says the state
authority wants to know if the task force complied with state
law before deciding to accept or reject its suggestions.
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