South Burlington board hears amendment to Nolan Farm path to avoid updated wetland delineation

The South Burlington Development Review Board on Sept. 3 heard a site-plan amendment to move a section of the shared-use recreation path at Nolan Farm Park to avoid an updated wetland delineation.

The amendment, for site plan application SP-2532, would shift several hundred feet of the paved path westward from the central seating area and then reconnect with the previously approved route to avoid a finger of Class II wetland that has migrated west in recent years, board Chair Dawn Filibert said at the meeting.

The change was presented by Abby Derry, an engineer with Bowman Engineering, who spoke for the City of South Burlington as the applicant. "We do have to alert the Army Corps that of the class 3 wetlands we're impacting because they do have jurisdiction over them," Derry said, adding that the project does not exceed the square footage that would require an individual Corps permit and instead falls into a self-reporting threshold. "We're not over a square footage that…