Property request · wetlands permit
Sylvia Sawyer: install 85 linear feet of riprap revetment (Prentice Creek)
Wetlands Board decides (county’s record, Mar 11)Approved, unanimously · Mar 11
A step the records show opens the record itself.
In plain words
Sylvia Sawyer has applied to install 85 linear feet of riprap revetment along the shoreline of Prentice Creek.1 The work is at Tax Map Parcel #52-(1)-7-B on Ditchley Road, under Application No. 25-0261.1 The Wetlands Board took up the application on March 11, 2025, where Joseph Scott, agent for the owner, described the project.2 He said the owner is not planning to develop the lot, a living shoreline would not work, and no existing wetland vegetation would be disturbed.2 There were no objections, and Robert Vanlandingham made a motion to approve the application as submitted for three years.2
Summarized from the county’s records, September 28.
Where each sentence comes from
- “Sylvia Sawyer – to install 85 linear feet of riprap revetment along the shoreline of Prentice Creek” … “Application No. 25-0261” … “Tax Map Parcel #52-(1)-7-B on Ditchley Road”The matter as the records title it
- “Joseph Scott, agent for the owner, described the project.” … “the owner is not planning to develop the lot and with the bank and all the trees there, a living shoreline would not work” … “no existing wetland vegetation would be disturbed” … “there being no objections, Robert Vanlandingham made a motion to approve the application as submitted for three years”Mar 11, 2025 · Wetlands Board · In the minutes
Written automatically from the county’s records. Each sentence has to quote the record it comes from, word for word, or it’s left out. The records have the final say.
The official wording
Application No. 25-0261 Sylvia Sawyer – to install 85 linear feet of riprap revetment along the shoreline of Prentice Creek and Tax Map Parcel #52-(1)-7-B on Ditchley Road.
Words the law defines
Wetlands board
“‘Wetlands board’ or ‘board’ means a board created pursuant to § 28.2-1303.”
Code of Virginia § 28.2-1300, Chapter 13. Wetlands
What’s happened
- Tue11Mar
Wetlands Board · a vote
ApprovedSylvia Sawyer: install 85 linear feet of riprap revetment (Prentice Creek)
After review of the project and there being no objections, Robert Vanlandingham made a motion to approve the application as submitted for three years.. Albert Fisher seconded the motion and the Board unanimously approved.
Moved by Vanlandingham, seconded by Fisher
Meeting by meeting, newest first, in the records’ own words. Each vote names the minutes it’s written in.
The records
- Tue11Mar
Gathered from Northumberland County’s agendas, minutes and notices. Checked October 26.