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Residents and commissioners target sedimentation at Mulat Bayou, call for tougher land-development code enforcement
Summary
Public commenters said developers have been selling lots one-by-one through multiple LLCs to avoid land-development code requirements, contributing to sedimentation in Mulat Bayou. Commissioners and staff said the county is already working on code changes and enforcement measures.
Sherry Chapman, of Pieridge, told the commission that builders around Mulat Bayou have been selling lots one at a time—often under separate limited liability companies—to avoid land-development code (LDC) thresholds that trigger stricter flood and stormwater requirements.
"By skirting this and putting each house that you build in a different LLC, you kinda go around the back door and don't have to do this," Chapman said during public forum. She urged the county to strengthen the LDC and enforcement to stop what she described as ongoing sedimentation problems in the…
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