With my short conversations so far (we meet next week), my understanding is that they would help with all the design/planning without an agreement. If we were to do an agreement, they would then kick in actual dollars for the work.
The area that I have is 32 acres with 3 acres marked as wetlands. Since this portion cannot really ever be developed without a painful reclassification, the conservation agreement may not be that big of a deal. It was part of the understanding (thus far) that the end goal would be a ~1 acre 15' deep pond, with ~3 acres of 2' deep, island dotted, managed wetlands.
They have provided all the soils info, which was helpful. It shows a 10 acre vein of brick clay that runs thru the property in that area, which explains the wet conditions that caused the original wetlands zoning. I assume that is good news... I know as a kid we built sun baked pottery out of that clay, so it must hold water fairly well.
I will publish the text of the actual agreement if I get it in hand.
Thanks for your feedback thus far.
Last edited by howabouttheiris; 10/16/08 05:56 AM.
