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County planner outlines changes to New York wetlands rules, urges municipal outreach
Summary
Tompkins County planning staff outlined how recent New York State Department of Environmental Conservation rule changes replace jurisdictional wetlands maps with informational maps and require property‑level jurisdictional determinations, and described outreach the county has done for municipalities.
Darby Kiley, associate planner in the Tompkins County Department of Planning and Sustainability, told the county Planning, Energy and Environmental Quality Committee on July 14 that New York State Department of Environmental Conservation changes to freshwater wetlands regulation now treat DEC maps as informational only and require jurisdictional determinations for potential wetlands on a property.
Kiley said the DEC process requires an applicant to request a jurisdictional determination; the DEC has 90 days to respond, and if DEC does not respond…
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