Cindyluwho
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I really need some advice on this and I'll try to keep it as short as I can.
Next to my father's home is a vacant lot. It is on the water and falls within the Shoreline Management Act. Behind the lot is a hillside that has been deemed unsafe. The county told the owner he needed a geotech OK the property before he could get a variance. His geotech OKed the hillside.
The hillside is obviously unstable and another property owner just 100 feet away had a geotech look at their hillside who deemed it a "hazard".
The county says they have to, by law, give him the variance as long as his geotech survey says it's OK. We are hiring our own Geotech to look at the hillside, if ours says the hillside is unstable then the county hires a third party Geo to survey it as well.
Is there anything else we can do to fight this? We've been so supportive of others building new homes in the neighborhood but this hillside puts 1/2 dozen homes in danger if it slides. And we have had some major slides all over our area in the last year.
Is it possible to get an environmental group involved? And how does one even do that? The neighbors are in a frenzy (I'm a neighbor as well).
Any advice?? BTW - The variance is to build the home closer to the water, in the process he would have to have a spot for his second septic (in case the first one fails) on top of the hillside.
Next to my father's home is a vacant lot. It is on the water and falls within the Shoreline Management Act. Behind the lot is a hillside that has been deemed unsafe. The county told the owner he needed a geotech OK the property before he could get a variance. His geotech OKed the hillside.
The hillside is obviously unstable and another property owner just 100 feet away had a geotech look at their hillside who deemed it a "hazard".
The county says they have to, by law, give him the variance as long as his geotech survey says it's OK. We are hiring our own Geotech to look at the hillside, if ours says the hillside is unstable then the county hires a third party Geo to survey it as well.
Is there anything else we can do to fight this? We've been so supportive of others building new homes in the neighborhood but this hillside puts 1/2 dozen homes in danger if it slides. And we have had some major slides all over our area in the last year.
Is it possible to get an environmental group involved? And how does one even do that? The neighbors are in a frenzy (I'm a neighbor as well).
Any advice?? BTW - The variance is to build the home closer to the water, in the process he would have to have a spot for his second septic (in case the first one fails) on top of the hillside.
