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Planning Commission adds forest carbon language, asks for leakage language and clearer conservation‑easement rules
Summary
Skagit County planning commissioners supported adding policies on forest carbon sequestration and a new clause addressing 'leakage' while discussing rules for conservation easements and splitting residences from resource parcels.
Skagit County Planning Commission members on April 8 agreed to add new language on forest carbon sequestration and storage to the draft natural resource lands element and debated additional language intended to prevent "leakage," or displacement of environmental impacts to other jurisdictions.
The commission also discussed policies that would make it easier for property owners to separate a small residential parcel from larger forest or agricultural holdings and place the remainder in conservation easement — a practice already provided for agricultural lands and now proposed for some forest lands.
Consultant Clay White explained the…
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