New Construction - Wetland Mitigation

[Kevin Martin]

Anybody gone through the wetland mitigation process only to be stopped by a local city ordinance? 

We have a piece of land we are developing with wetlands and we had everything setup with the mitigation bank, USACE, DEP, and now the city is saying they can't have any net loss of wetlands within city limits. So we ask if there are any mitigation banks within city limits and they say no. 

We have some options but I wanted to see if anyone one on here has run into a similar situation.

[Karen Margrave]

Sorry, no answers. If you have options probably best to go with them sooner rather than later. We had a situation where we had "environmentally sensitive" piece of land it was only about 10'x 30', that was actually a little gulley, not draining to anything, just a depression in land. The City wanted a fence around it with a gate to access. The Army Corp of Engineers wanted just a fence. They fought over it for over a year. It made the difference on bringing the project online in a hot buyers market, and missing it when the market crashed the next year! Those agencies just don't graps peoples lives hang on their ignorance and stubborness. 

Good luck!!