Slope solution back on table and rightfully so

Published 5:56pm Tuesday, February 12, 2013
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Planning board members once again will turn their conversation toward slope thresholds in relation to the county’s building regulations during their upcoming meeting Feb. 14.

There is a reason slope percentages continue to come up again and again. Polk County needs them.

Commissioners rescinded the county’s mountainside and ridgeline protection ordinance (MRPO) ignoring a former steep slope proposal from the planning board. They did so despite a crowd of voices at the commission meeting who spoke in favor of protections of some sort for the area’s mountainsides.

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