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Commission pauses dispute over Winchester dry-well requirement; applicant seeks broader remedy
Summary
After heated testimony about a decades-old requirement for dry wells in the Winchester Subdivision, the Planning Commission agreed to continue consideration of a planning director—s determination that would allow alternatives (BMPs) to dry wells; the applicant asked for a continuance to pursue a fuller change in the subdivision—s conditions.
The Placer County Planning Commission took no final action on a contested planning director—s determination regarding stormwater methods in the Winchester Subdivision, instead continuing the item after the applicant requested more time to pursue a broader remedy.
Associate planner Jared Peters presented a staff recommendation that Condition of Approval 4 for the Winchester Subdivision may be satisfied by a range of on-site best management practices (BMPs) under the county—s West Placer stormwater quality design manual rather than prescribing dry wells exclusively. Peters told the commission the determination would allow the building services division, during building-permit review, to accept alternatives such as rain gardens, porous pavements, vegetated swales and disconnected downspouts where they meet the design manual—s standards.
The applicant (identified in…
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