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Residents press commissioners on conservation, contaminated sites, animal control and stormwater at public forum
Summary
Residents used the public forum Monday to raise several separate local concerns, including calls to preserve natural landscape features in the county’s land development code, complaints about roaming dogs and encampments at Nichols Lake, requests for mapping of historic contamination sites, and questions about alternative subdivision rules and stormwater design.
Residents used the public forum Monday to raise several separate local concerns, including calls to preserve natural landscape features in the county’s land development code, complaints about roaming dogs and encampments at Nichols Lake, requests for mapping of historic contamination sites, and questions about alternative subdivision rules and stormwater design.
Ellen Willoughby, identifying herself as a 17-year-old local activist from Gulf Breeze, urged the board to “incorporate natural landscape into the land development code” and argued that preserving mature trees and wetland buffers supports water quality, aquifer recharge and tourism. “These provisions…
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