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Council discussion on raising acreage thresholds for land disturbance stalls; staff to return with proposed text
Summary
County staff outlined a tiered approach to raise allowable disturbance for residential and commercial projects and add engineering and BMP requirements for larger sites. Council discussed sequencing, stop-work orders, and environmental controls; no vote was taken and staff will return with proposed ordinance text.
Lexington County planning staff presented a proposed amendment to the Land Development Manual (section 6.2.9) that would change how the county approves and oversees land-disturbance for residential and commercial projects.
Under the draft approach discussed in committee, staff proposed keeping projects of 0–20 acres as staff-level approvals, creating a 20–60 acre tier requiring an expanded master plan with a letter of credit and five additional best-management practices (BMPs) (the five BMPs were drawn from a Georgia erosion-control list), and treating projects larger than 60 acres as a higher tier that would first be reviewed by the Stormwater…
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