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Planning staff provide Chesapeake Bay Preservation District training and review recent administrative approvals
Summary
City planners briefed commissioners on Chesapeake Bay Preservation District rules, mitigation requirements and recent administrative approvals including a bulkhead replacement, buffer-tree removals, and a laboratory building for Hoffler Creek Wildlife Preserve.
Planning staff provided a training briefing on Portsmouth’s Chesapeake Bay Preservation District program during the Jan. 7 planning work session, reviewing the resource protection area (RPA), resource management area (RMA) buffers, exception processes and several recent administrative approvals.
Director Rhonda Russell and Senior Planner Valerie Malzone explained the local program’s structure and how the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act is implemented locally. Malzone said the RMA is a 100-foot buffer adjacent to RPAs and that encroachment into the…
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