In September, the board voted to restore the county’s wetland buffers, which are meant to protect sensitive environmental areas from development. However, Manatee County staff said that would ...

The Manatee County Commission approved a developer’s request to release conservation easements for about 10 acres of wetland buffers around Cooper Creek in the University Park area. Cooper Creek ...

Local developers and residents in Scarborough debated a proposed 25-foot buffer between new developments and adjacent wetlands at a Town Council public hearing last week. Developers expressed ...

Any state regulated wetland also includes a 100' buffer around the outside edge which is known as the "adjacent area". Any development within this adjacent area may have a detrimental impact the ...

EVERETT — Snohomish County Council will likely decide on Wednesday if buffers to wetlands, streams and other critical habitats will be cut in half for development opportunities. For the past ...

The regulations also impose a 100-foot upland protective buffer around wetlands. All told, the DEC estimates the new regulations will protect about 1 million additional acres of freshwater wetlands.