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Taneytown council backs drafting code changes to require groundwater recharge for larger developments
Summary
Council gave staff consensus to develop code changes that would require major projects to provide groundwater recharge or pay a fee-in-lieu; details including thresholds and fee levels will be worked out over coming months.
The Taneytown City Council agreed by consensus to direct staff to draft changes to the municipal code that would require groundwater recharge for larger site development projects and establish a fee-in-lieu option.
City Manager Jim Weiprecht outlined the proposed approach, saying, “The idea basically is we’re gonna add a definition of groundwater recharge to the water chapter.” He described removing older code language that referred to a water replacement fee and replacing it with a recharge requirement for projects over a…
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