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Lakeville conservation panel presses for limits, clarity on draft stormwater bylaw
Summary
At a Jan. 13 Lakeville Conservation Commission meeting, members urged narrowing a proposed stormwater management bylaw to municipally maintained systems, asked that one authority be designated for enforcement, and set a schedule to circulate comments before spring town meeting.
Members of the Lakeville Conservation Commission spent most of their Jan. 13 meeting debating how a proposed stormwater management bylaw should apply and who should oversee it.
The commission’s discussion, led during the regular meeting at the Lakeville Police Station, centered on whether the draft should impose townwide requirements or be limited to municipally maintained stormwater systems; whether the commission should be named a governing authority for the bylaw; and how to define technical terms such as “disturbance.”
“Part of our MS4 permit mandates that we do some kind of stormwater bylaw,” said Michelle Bouchard, a member of the Lakeville Conservation Commission, noting the town is already late to comply. Commissioners said…
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