tshep
Gold Member
I gotta' tell somebody.
I was looking at real estate data for my rental house, hoping to find acres measured for data use.
Found a new category - RPA .53 acres (I estimate, well, my land at .72 acres all together).
Now I gotta' research - what is RPA? - Resource Protection Area.
Areas near creeks - even little neighborhood creeks that almost go dry - have at least 100 foot buffer. (This is not the wetlands thing - a drainage thing.)
I spend 2 hours doing the triangles thing trying to make .53 work with 100 foot - gotta' be wrong. About 140 of creek line, so .53 would have to be about 165 feet up from creek - wow - way wrong.
Nope!
45 minute call learning this - er - stuff.
100 feet from FEMA flood plain - so 'they' must show 65 from center somewhere.
Now, I have played here since mid 60's, bought in '79, I've seen and evidenced about 15 feet plain out of creekbed in 50 years - so 1/2 gulley = say 7 1/2, plus 15, so maybe 22 feet for a 50 year floodplain.
The line is actually drawn through, THROUGH, my house - about midway.
They told me nothing of this, ever, no how.
So, no touching the land in zone, except for minor water enjoyment projects - dock, board walks to dock, etc. - no general use projects - for non-grandfathered lots.
(Of course, big corporations can come through and screw it up and leave - like FIOS!)
Lot approved in '60s, built in '79, law in '89 - so I have some grandfathered rights, but still 'new' constrictions.
I have been required to report, and record dead trees since '89 - no one told me.
I asked how I would have known - the line would have come up with a building permit request - but no permit for tree dropping - again how would I know?
Now, I don't take down trees willy-nilly, but a dead tree that could fall on me or a neighbor, naturally or from a tractor bump - gotta' go - safety thing.
Now I'm supposed to apply (free so far), supply before/after pics for removing safety hazards.
OMG!
I was looking at real estate data for my rental house, hoping to find acres measured for data use.
Found a new category - RPA .53 acres (I estimate, well, my land at .72 acres all together).
Now I gotta' research - what is RPA? - Resource Protection Area.
Areas near creeks - even little neighborhood creeks that almost go dry - have at least 100 foot buffer. (This is not the wetlands thing - a drainage thing.)
I spend 2 hours doing the triangles thing trying to make .53 work with 100 foot - gotta' be wrong. About 140 of creek line, so .53 would have to be about 165 feet up from creek - wow - way wrong.
Nope!
45 minute call learning this - er - stuff.
100 feet from FEMA flood plain - so 'they' must show 65 from center somewhere.
Now, I have played here since mid 60's, bought in '79, I've seen and evidenced about 15 feet plain out of creekbed in 50 years - so 1/2 gulley = say 7 1/2, plus 15, so maybe 22 feet for a 50 year floodplain.
The line is actually drawn through, THROUGH, my house - about midway.
They told me nothing of this, ever, no how.
So, no touching the land in zone, except for minor water enjoyment projects - dock, board walks to dock, etc. - no general use projects - for non-grandfathered lots.
(Of course, big corporations can come through and screw it up and leave - like FIOS!)
Lot approved in '60s, built in '79, law in '89 - so I have some grandfathered rights, but still 'new' constrictions.
I have been required to report, and record dead trees since '89 - no one told me.
I asked how I would have known - the line would have come up with a building permit request - but no permit for tree dropping - again how would I know?
Now, I don't take down trees willy-nilly, but a dead tree that could fall on me or a neighbor, naturally or from a tractor bump - gotta' go - safety thing.
Now I'm supposed to apply (free so far), supply before/after pics for removing safety hazards.
OMG!
