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Speaker urges Escambia County to adopt stormwater ordinance, warns of flooding at proposed Mackenzie Estates
Summary
At the county’s public forum, Chris Curb, a member of the land development code task force, urged the county to restart work on a stormwater ordinance in light of new environmental resource permit regulations and warned a proposed Mackenzie Estates subdivision may flood because two creeks converge on the property.
Chris Curb, a member of Escambia County’s Land Development Code Task Force, told the county’s public forum that recent work collecting data for the Perdido Basin shows flooding risks that should prompt the county to adopt a stormwater ordinance and require floodplain analyses for some developments.
“I spoke to at the last public forum in Commissioner Berry's district was Mackenzie Estates, a proposed development where you have 2 creeks that merge on this property. Oh, Mackenzie Road, it goes underwater. And we just had a little…
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