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Titusville board asks staff to close 'wetland loophole,' votes to revise comp plan language
Summary
The Titusville Environmental & Water Resources Board voted unanimously to ask staff to remove a qualifying phrase from comprehensive plan policy 1.16.0.2 and to require that adjacent wetlands be considered when a wetland touches a property boundary, after presentation showing delineations expanded conservation areas for PD South.
The Titusville Environmental & Water Resources Board on Wednesday voted to ask staff to rewrite portions of the city's comprehensive-plan wetland policy to prevent applicants from treating fragments of a larger wetland as separate, fillable parcels.
Board members focused on policy 1.16.0.2 and on a recent applicant filing for the PD South/PD South (Pee Dee South) area that consultants had mapped as a set of small, discrete wetlands. Presenters and members argued those pieces are contiguous and together exceed the 5-acre threshold that the city's conservation policy treats as automatically warranting conservation land use. A board presenter said formal delineation…
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