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Workshop covers wetlands, delineation, mitigation costs and conditioning rezonings on infrastructure
Summary
Staff and the county engineer explained wetlands permitting, the role of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and FEMA, typical costs and how the board may condition rezonings on infrastructure completion or limit certificates of occupancy.
Planning staff, the county engineer and the department’s wetlands specialist briefed the board on wetlands jurisdiction, delineation, mitigation costs and how the board can condition rezonings on infrastructure.
Chelsea, a planning staff wetland specialist, said that impacts to wetlands generally require delineation and Army Corps of Engineers approval for commercial and many other activities: "Anything more than that, it would have to, including commercial. So they'd have to be delineated by the and approved by the Army Corps of Engineers," she said. She…
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