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The county’s erosion and sedimentation control ordinance does not apply to agricultural operations, noted Pete Luke. “From walking the site, it seems to me that there’d be more sediment from plowing than what would result from putting in a basement and drainfield...If agricultural operations are going to cause as much or more damage than the developer’s plan, then we have to take that into consideration.”
Luke maintained that the controls required by the Planning Commission would be an improvement over the existing state of the site. “We have to be careful on the conditions placed on the developer to prevent damage when there’s damage already there,” he concluded.
“Suppose he (the' developer) built on all 14 lots and nothing was planted,” countered Masterson, adding
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Luke answered that a homeowner with a large financial investment in his house and lot was not going to live surrounded by bare earth. “What they’re planning to do is an improvement over what we have now,” he claimed. “I don’t think we can do much about the past. We’re thinking about the future,” commented Commission chairman Herbert Barksdale.
Steep Slope Problem “There’s one thing that bothers me—the amount of land in each lot with slopes greater than 14 per cent,” interjected Planner Newbill Miller. He said the developer had indicated in past conversations that only three acres out of the 70-acre parcel contained slopes greater than 14 per cent. “We went out to inspect and it’s quite a bit steeper than the developer realized,” said Miller. According to
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