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Douglas County to require ecological studies for development in Cedar Mountain area
Summary
After presentations by local botanists and ecologists, Douglas County adopted a Cedar Mountain overlay that requires credentialed botanical, geological, archaeological and wildlife assessments for major subdivisions or rezoning in the northwest county area. Planning staff framed overlays as a temporary measure to "buy time" for master planning.
A special-called session of the Douglas County Planning & Zoning Board and Board of Commissioners voted to add an environmental overlay around Cedar Mountain and nearby northwest-county areas, requiring credentialed pre-application studies where major subdivisions or rezoning are proposed.
Lisonbee Duncan, planning and zoning manager, told the board the overlay is intended "to buy some time" while the county develops a fuller master plan for the area. Staff said sewer lines recently extended to serve two new data-center projects increase the risk that properties now zoned residential could be developed at higher densities than previously intended. Under the proposed text amendment, developments within the Cedar Mountain overlay that propose rezoning or major subdivision must submit botanical, geological, archaeological and cultural-resource reports prepared by credentialed experts; the director of development services may…
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