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Jonathan & Colleen Hughes: install 465 linear feet of riprap revetment (Spences Creek)

  1. Wetlands Board hearing (county’s record, Jan 14)Jan 14

  2. Wetlands Board decides (county’s record, Jan 14)Approved, unanimously · Jan 14

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In plain words

Jonathan & Colleen Hughes applied to install 465 linear feet of riprap revetment along the shoreline of Spences Creek.1 The site is Tax Map Parcel #28-1-116 on Harbor View Drive.1 On January 14, 2025, Mike Cappell, acting on behalf of Roger McKinley, agent for the owner, described the project to the Wetlands Board.2 He stated that a living shoreline would not work, and noted that the lot is facing north with shading.2 Robert Vanlandingham made a motion to approve the application as submitted for three years upon the site being properly staked and inspected.2 George Rew seconded the motion and the Board unanimously approved.2

Summarized from the county’s records, September 28.

Where each sentence comes from
  1. “to install 465 linear feet of riprap revetment along the shoreline of Spences Creek” … “Tax Map Parcel #28-1-116 on Harbor View Drive”The matter as the records title it
  2. “Mike Cappell, acting on behalf of Roger McKinley, agent for the owner, described the project” … “He stated that a living shoreline would not work” … “this lot is also facing north with shading” … “Robert Vanlandingham made a motion to approve the application as submitted for three years upon the site being properly staked and inspected” … “George Rew seconded the motion and the Board unanimously approved”Jan 14, 2025 · Wetlands Board · In the minutes

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The official wording

Application No. 24-2729 Jonathan & Colleen Hughes – to install 465 linear feet of riprap revetment along the shoreline of Spences Creek and Tax Map Parcel #28-1-116 on Harbor View Drive.

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

  1. Tue14Jan

    Wetlands Board · a vote

    ApprovedJonathan & Colleen Hughes: install 465 linear feet of riprap revetment (Spences 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 upon the site being properly staked and… Show all

    Moved by Vanlandingham, seconded by Rew

    Minutes, Jan 14Open it in the meeting →

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The records

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How a wetlands permit is decided

Work in tidal wetlands and along the shoreline, such as riprap, bulkheads and sills, needs a permit. The county's Wetlands Board decides these applications after an advertised public hearing.

Applications are also filed with the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, which assigns the application number used to follow a request.

The law: Va. Code § 28.2-1302 (Adoption of wetlands zoning ordinance; terms of ordinance). This describes the general process, not this decision.