B. Maintain or increase level of environmental protection in permitting process
1. Provide guidance to localities based on best available science for assessing impacts and setting up mitigation program
2. Monitor impacts from existing shoreline construction
3. Promulgate regulations regarding
specific types of shoreline activities
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EXISTING PROGRAMS:
1. Outreach ·
Marina guidelines ·
Mitigation/compensation
guidelines ·
SEAS ·
VIMS educational
programs ·
Watershed based
regional offices - DCR ·
Wetland and dunes
guidelines ·
2. Regulation · CBLAD · Dunes permitting · Subaqueous lands permitting · Local Zoning · Non-tidal wetlands program - DEQ ·
Tidal Wetlands
Act (VMRC/ local gov’t) N/A 3. Monitoring ·
4. Planning/coordination · Chesapeake Bay Agreement 2000 ·
5. Research · Comprehensive Coastal Inventory -VIMS N/A |
MISSING ELEMENTS: 1. Outreach ·
Develop
compensation/mitigation guidance/standards for local governments ·
Expand regional technical
support staffs to assist local governments (consider PDCs) 2. Regulation ·
Move to web-based
regulatory programs to enhance coordination and efficiency ·
Expand regional technical
resources for regulatory program support (e.g. PDCs as mitigation bank
managers) 3. Authority ·
Require engineering
review of coastal structures ·
Require local
implementation of state standards for regulatory processes (include state
oversight) 4. Monitoring ·
5. Planning/coordination · Use regional technical staff to supplement local staff · Develop resource management plans for all localities (eg, wetlands preservation) 6. Research · Expand knowledge of development impacts on coastal systems (particularly shoreline structures, and riparian land use conversions) 7. Definition of management targets ·
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