The industry offers comments at a public hearing in Hampton
Public hearings are under way on proposed new rules governing stormwater runoff from construction sites in Virginia and members of the home building industry have been busy voicing their concerns.
A group of civil engineers has been analyzing the effect of applying the new regs to previously designed projects. Their results? A lot more money to build homes with no significant benefits to theChesapeake Bay. The industry maintains it is being disproportionately affected by the proposal in relation to the effect it has on the pollutants.
The Home Builders Association of Virginia has submitted a counterproposal that would assess fees on the industry to help offset the cost of cleaning up the Bay.
Here are some of the comments being submitted by the association:
Claudia Cotton, Staff vice president, Tidewater Builders Association
Andy Herr, Vice president, land development, Terry Peterson Companies
Barrett Hardiman, Home Builders Association of Virginia
Michael Newsome, HBAV Vice President, Clark Whitehill Enterprises
Read more about it in The Virginian-Pilot’s article, “Virginia regulations would govern storm runoff” July 9, 2009
Thanks go out toAndy Herr from Terry Peterson Companie for chairing this effort and the other engineers who participated: Bob Cosby, AES Consulting Engineers; Chris Parker and Michelle Virts; Timmons Group; Mike Hess, Miller Stephenson and Associates; Mike Bumbaco, Kerr Environmental; Ted Miller, Kimley Horn and Associates; Scott Davis, Vanasse Hangen Brustlin, Inc., and Kelly Holloman, Landmark Design Group.
