Uses
Permitted by right34
- noncommercial catwalks
- piers
- boathouses
- boat shelters
- fences
- duckblinds
- wildlife management shelters
- footbridges
- observation decks
- shelters
- cultivation and harvesting of shellfish
- worms for bait
- noncommercial outdoor recreational activities
- hiking
- boating
- trapping
- hunting
- fishing
- shellfishing
- horseback riding
- swimming
- skeet and trap shooting
- shooting on shooting preserves
- other outdoor recreational activities
- grazing
- haying
- cultivating and harvesting agricultural, forestry or horticultural products
- conservation, repletion and research activities
- construction or maintenance of aids to navigation
- emergency measures
- normal maintenance and repair of roads, highways, railroad beds
- governmental activity in wetlands owned or leased by Commonwealth
- normal maintenance of man-made drainage ditches
- construction of living shoreline projects
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Approval vote requirement
Approval of a permit application shall require the affirmative vote of three members of a five-member board or four members of a seven-member board
- Permit expiration
No permit shall be granted without an expiration date established by the board
- Recreation without structures
Noncommercial outdoor recreational activities ... provided that no structure shall be constructed except as permitted in Subsection C(1)
- Permit for other uses
Any person who desires to use or develop any wetland ... other than for the purpose of conducting activities specified in § 72-34.4C, shall first file an application for a permit
- Structures on pilings
such structures are so constructed on pilings as to permit the reasonably unobstructed flow of the tide and preserve the natural contour of the wetlands
- Public hearingConditional useAllowed only after a discretionary approval — usually a public hearing and a board vote. within 60 days
Not later than 60 days after receipt of a complete application, the Wetlands Board shall hold a public hearing
From the ordinance
The following uses of and activities in wetlands are authorized, if otherwise permitted by law: ...