When it rains …
From the comments section of a local blog. a question concerning a passage in today’s story on the Planning Commission meeting:
All commissioners present voted Thursday to recommend the changes that, if approved by the County Commission, would return some oversight authority to the County Stormwater Department in the non-urbanized sections of the county.
“… Our local regulations don’t fall out into the area beyond the urban growth boundaries of the cities right now,” Planning Director John Lamb said. “We would basically be following the state requirements. … That puts (Stormwater Coordinator Justin Teague) back in the loop of actually enforcing something.”
The question: “Does anyone know, since the Coordinator didn’t have it, who had the authority to enforce the codes before this vote?”
Unless I’m mistaken, that would still be Teague. Remember, prior to March 19, when the County Commission voted to weaken the county’s stormwater regulations concerning grading, erosion and sedimentation, those regulations applied to the whole county — not just within the urban growth boundaries.
