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Chesapeake Bay Board grants exception for two retaining walls at 236 Jefferson’s Hundred
Summary
The Chesapeake Bay Board approved a Chesapeake Bay exception allowing two retaining walls and a landing at 236 Jefferson’s Hundred after staff found impacts to the RPA were minor and the applicants proposed more mitigation than required.
The James City County Chesapeake Bay Board on March 12 granted an exception allowing the construction of two retaining walls and a landing at 236 Jefferson’s Hundred in the Kingsmill subdivision.
Amanda Frazier, watershed planner, told the board the lot is 0.57 acres with about 63% inside the Resource Protection Area (RPA). She said the total impervious impact to the RPA would be 216 square feet; county mitigation guidance requires half a planting unit for that amount of impervious disturbance…
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