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Parks staff describe EGLE recommendations: leave shoreline buffers unmowed, consider fencing where sidewalks meet steep riprap
Summary
Staff reported coastal-resiliency grant work and EGLE site-walk suggestions: retain a 30-foot native-vegetation buffer behind riprap, use signage to explain maintenance changes, and consider short-term fencing in steep areas while longer-term plantings are developed.
Bay City Parks staff updated the committee on coastal-resiliency design work and current grant applications, saying the Davidson Cut design is roughly 90% complete and that they are applying for a NOAA grant to help fund construction. The staff member summarized guidance from an EGLE site review, including leaving native vegetation near riprap and adding interpretive signage to explain changes to the shoreline mowing regimen.
"He said if they design a new area along Riprap, they recommend leaving 30 foot of native vegetation to slow down rain and have the roots to hold in the soil," the staff member reported, describing EGLE's recommendations. Committee members discussed likely community pushback to visible changes in shoreline appearance and considered temporary fencing for the steepest sites where sidewalks are close to riprap; staff said they would pursue public education and phased plantings to reduce aesthetic concerns while addressing erosion.
