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Planning Commission reviews four Chesapeake Bay Act exception applications for shoreline properties
Summary
At an Aug. 25 Westmoreland County Planning Commission work session, staff presented four Chesapeake Bay Act exception requests for properties within resource protection areas; applicants proposed infiltration chambers, planting units and other mitigation, and staff said exceptions are required before permitting.
The Westmoreland County Planning Commission spent the bulk of its Aug. 25 work session reviewing four separate Chesapeake Bay Act exception requests for single-family and accessory construction on shoreline parcels, staff said.
Staff presenter Richard Stewart Jr. told commissioners that the applications are required because the entirety or a portion of each proposed project would fall inside the county's 100-foot resource protection area (RPA) and, in most cases, within the seaward 50-foot buffer. "The entirety of their proposed expansion will be within the 100 foot resource protection area," Stewart said when introducing case 2509-CBAE-07 for an expansion at 554 Ships Row, Montross. He added that the expansion would bring the deck about 10 feet closer to mean high water than the existing deck.
The applicants…
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