Editor, Gazette-Journal:

The next opportunity to provide personal public comment on the Gloucester Board of Supervisors (BOS) action to significantly change the county Resource Management Area (RMA) is the Sept. 6 BOS meeting. I am continuing to ask for citizen participation on this issue and for residents to write, call or e-mail your supervisor(s) and let him know your desires.

The latest proposal by the board is to reduce the countywide RMA to 100 feet beyond the Gloucester County Resource Protection Area (RPA) and 100 feet beyond the 100-year floodplain. Further, the board has directed staff to eliminate erosion and sediment control measures on properties outside the RMA with 10,000 square feet, or less, of land disturbance in the proposed draft ordinance. One resultant example of this action means that the recognized black silt fences around residential building sites will not need to be erected and any runoff will go where nature dictates!

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