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Chair reports new citation ordinance giving Milford officials a fines tool for unresolved wetlands violations
Summary
At the June 17 meeting the chair said an ordinance effective June 13 allows citations and fines (up to $1,000 per day) after existing violation procedures are exhausted; staff said the agency will continue current violation processes and use the ordinance as an additional tool.
Chair Brandon Magnin informed the agency that a recently passed ordinance provides an additional enforcement mechanism for unresolved wetlands violations. Mary Rose told the meeting the ordinance took effect June 13 and allows the office to issue citations that, after 30 days, can be converted to fines of up to $1,000 per day for continued noncompliance.
Both the chair and staff emphasized that the ordinance is an additional tool that complements existing violation orders and monitoring processes, not a replacement for the agency's established enforcement procedures. Mary Rose said the office will publish procedures and that citations will generally be used after the agency has tried the normal course of enforcement and outreach to bring a violator into compliance.
No formal action on the ordinance was required at this meeting; the agency noted the change and flagged that it could affect future enforcement steps when parties do not respond to violation orders.
