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Oak Harbor staff propose combining clearing and grading rules into a single Title 20 chapter
Summary
Senior planner Dennis Lafever told the council the city plans to move land-clearing regulations into Title 20 and combine them with grading rules to centralize environmental controls; planning commission and council hearings are scheduled later in the summer.
Senior Planner Dennis Lafever presented a proposed code amendment on April 22 to combine Oak Harbor's land-clearing and grading regulations into a new chapter in Title 20 (environment code). Lafever said the proposal moves the existing land-clearing chapter (currently in Chapter 19.47) and folds grading provisions (now administered by engineering/stormwater in Title 12) into a single, consolidated Chapter 20.15.
Lafever said the change responds to overlapping regulatory goals — vegetation, geologically hazardous areas,…
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