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Builders urge broader waivers to Georgia runoff-reduction rules, saying controls cost $7,000–$15,000 per lot
Summary
Home builders told the committee the state's 2016 runoff-reduction manual and its local implementation reduce lot yields and add thousands to lot and home prices; they asked to expand waiver rules to count loss of lots as financial hardship and to approve treatment inside detention ponds as an eligible alternative.
Home builders told the Small Business Development Committee that Georgia’s 2016 runoff-reduction manual and its local implementation are reducing the number of viable building lots and adding thousands of dollars to development costs.
Jay Knight, a Metro-Atlanta developer, said the manual — which counties began implementing as older local stormwater certifications expired — is large and complex and has led local reviewers to require treatment systems that consume land and carry ongoing maintenance obligations. “If you follow that thing to the letter…you wouldn’t develop anything,” Knight said, describing clay soils that do not absorb water and projects that became economically unviable when new treatment requirements were applied.
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