Making the Regulatory Process Work For You: The Do’s and Don’ts of the Regulatory Process And Having it Work for You/Gaining Regulatory Approval and Garnering Local Support for Marina Development
Part 1) Examining, framing and weaving one through the regulatory process –approaches to avoid and ways to make the potentially frustrating process rewarding. meaningful and cost effective. This session will provide:
- outline of various successful approaches
- highlights of pitfalls
- case study examples to support approaches and results for expansion in environmentally sensitive areas how to successfully deviate without requiring a precedent be set
Dan Natchez

Dan has been the recreational industries leading expert and spokesperson for holistic integrated design, Barrier Free Access, creating Best Management Practices for controlling and preventing Storm Water Pollution as well as for the designing and implementing prudent operations and service areas of marinas and authors an internationally syndicated column on marinas
Dan has recently been made an Honorary Certified Marina Professional one of 8 in the world.
Dan has been the keynote speaker in numerous AMI and other conferences around the world was the principles industry representative in the drafting of the ADA and Non Point Stormwater regulations.

projects. He specializes in the prediction and evaluation of projects in the physical water environment, including comprehensive site evaluations; field data collection and statistical analyses of oceanographic conditions; wave-structure interactions; sedimentation and dredging; coastal and riverine processes; and numerical analysis. Based in Applied Technology & Management’s (ATM) Charleston, SC office, Mr. Hansell’s work is focused in the southeast US and Caribbean but extends to national and international projects throughout the Americas, Asia, South Pacific, and Middle East.
Mr. Hansell is a licensed professional engineer in SC, GA, ME, and MS. He received his bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Mississippi State University and his master’s degree in Ocean Engineering – specializing in Coastal Processes and Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology