Grand Island board discusses final federal review of waterfront plan as resident driveway triggers consistency review

Members of the Town of Grand Island's Comprehensive Plan Review Board spent most of their meeting reviewing the town's Local Waterfront Revitalization Program (LWRP), which the town and state have adopted and which is currently in a 30-day review at the federal level.

Board members said the town's LWRP expands the waterfront boundary to include headwaters and creek corridors rather than a truncated shoreline area, allowing the town to take a watershed-level approach to grants, trail planning and habitat work. Staff told the board the federal review began on Feb. 5 and, barring unexpected comments, the town expects the review to conclude within about 30 days and lead to adoption by late spring.

The board also examined a recent application from a resident, identified in meeting materials as Mr. Degler, to install a driveway culvert that would span a mapped waterway called Little Big 6 Mile Creek. Because the proposed driveway would straddle the creek, the application…