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Bluffton council authorizes $174,004 task order to draft wetlands and resilience ordinances
Summary
The Bluffton Town Council unanimously authorized a $174,004.55 task authorization to engineering firm McCormick Taylor to inventory wetlands, map resilience zones and draft wetland and resiliency ordinances after WAPAC and conservation groups urged action following the U.S. Supreme Court's Sackett decision and local wetland losses.
The Bluffton Town Council voted unanimously to authorize the town manager to issue a task authorization to McCormick Taylor Inc. for $174,004.55 to inventory wetlands, map resilience zones and draft local wetlands and resiliency ordinances.
Town staff framed the request as a response to recent legal and scientific shifts. "There is a regulatory gap that currently exists at federal level," said Kim Jones, a town staff member leading the presentation, referring to the U.S. Supreme Court Sackett decision and its effect on federal jurisdiction over wetlands. Jones described a seven-item scope that includes wetland inventory and mapping, applying the town's…
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