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47 <br /> DRAFT <br /> 132 Chris Johnston Gotcha. So, the line will fix itself as time moves on. <br /> 133 Patrick Mallett: Yeah. You're going to see probably more of these. Not a huge amount, but I can say in <br /> 134 the years that I've been here, we've run across this, this is not uncommon to see a line <br /> 135 that's like, this clearly is an error. <br /> 136 Chris Johnston Okay. <br /> 137 Patrick Mallett: In years past the path to resolve that was fairly ambiguous and muddled. I think now the <br /> 138 state is pretty clear on what they want, what we legally need to do to fix these things, so 1 <br /> 139 think you'll see a few more of these. <br /> 140 Chris Johnston And then my follow-up question was, so this is by a surveyor who has sealed it which 1 <br /> 141 assume means that they have attested by their honor or whatever the case may be, in <br /> 142 what realm would we push back on something like that? At what point would we say, no, <br /> 143 we don't think this is right because this line looks goofy or whatever? And if there would <br /> 144 never be an opportunity or reason for us to push back, why would it come to us? <br /> 145 Patrick Mallett: Because we have an overlay boundary that needs to be amended. <br /> 146 Chris Johnston: I see, so it's not something that could be handled by staff, it has to come before the <br /> 147 planning board, and we have to take time to review it. <br /> 148 Patrick Mallett: Yeah, we can't administratively change the watershed boundary lines. <br /> 149 Chris Johnston Okay, thank you. <br /> 150 Marilyn Carter: Is there, given that we can anticipate some more of these to happen, is there a financial <br /> 151 impact to the county that we should be planning for in supporting these changes? <br /> 152 Patrick Mallett: I guess the financial impact would be the alternative, which is something that's not exactly <br /> 153 consistent with reality and therefore gives you a skewed image of the development <br /> 154 requirements. <br /> 155 Marilyn Carter: Got it, so the county doesn't have to expend funds to correct this line. <br /> 156 Patrick Mallett: No, this is just staff time to process them. We obviously have the time, we're busy, busy, <br /> 157 busy, but this is something that needs to be done and we're doing it. <br /> 158 Marilyn Carter: Got it. Thank you. <br /> 159 Statler Gilfillen: As I'm reading and listening to the discussion, this is a little bit of the bureaucratic issue, <br /> 160 kind of a Catch-22 where you're caught. Is there not a practical solution somehow that <br /> 161 can minimize the bureaucracy of this, since it's, what I'm hearing, this is relatively cut and <br /> 162 dry. It's going to be done, but the bureaucracy is requiring a lot of your time and then <br /> 163 coming before the boards, is there a way to simplify that process? <br /> 164 Patrick Mallett: Not without exhaustive time and expense on the county's end to essentially go out and <br /> 165 systematically review the boundaries for every critical and protected watershed, and that <br /> 166 would extremely expensive. <br /> 167 Statler Gilfillen: Would it not be possible to do something so that you can just do it internally? <br /> 168 Patrick Mallett: We don't have registered surveyors. <br />