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Lancaster County staff outline Carolina heelsplitter mitigation program as credits sell out and staff weighs internal options
Summary
Development Services Director Lisonbee Harden told council the Carolina heelsplitter mitigation‑credit bank is sold out; the county holds budgeted funds and is exploring using those funds for internal watershed projects while awaiting a Fish and Wildlife project to replenish credits.
Development Services Director Lisonbee Harden told Lancaster County Council that the county’s Carolina heelsplitter overlay—an agreement requiring developers to purchase mitigation credits for impacts in the 6 Mile Creek watershed—has had its external credits sold out and staff are exploring alternatives, including an internal mitigation program funded from a county budget line item.
Harden summarized the program’s history: the Carolina heelsplitter was federally listed as an endangered species in 1993; critical habitat was identified in 2002 and the county signed an overlay agreement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Environmental Banking Exchange (later Resource Environmental Solutions) in 2008 to require…
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