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Board approves homeowner planting at East Oak Street ditch
Summary
Clinton County Drainage Board approved a homeowner variance to install a small planting bed of low‑growing shrubs along the ditch bank at 8989 East Oak Street in Phillipsburg, with staff saying the planting will not reduce right‑of‑way or impede drainage.
The Clinton County Drainage Board on July 7 approved a variance request allowing a homeowner at 8989 East Oak Street in Phillipsburg to install a low planting bed along the ditch bank.
County staff (speaker 2) presented photographs and a map of the proposed planting bed and recommended approval, noting the shrubs are small‑growing, will be placed at the ditch edge, and the landowner has met septic and drainage requirements. "I have no objections to putting those trees there," staff said, adding the planting will be done from the road so the county’s access is preserved.
A board member moved to accept staff’s recommendation and the motion passed (recorded as motion carries 3–0). The board did not place additional conditions on the plantings beyond the usual right‑of‑way safeguards.
