ASHLAND COUNTY: LCO-Lakes Classification & Protection Guide Booklet

Purpose

Ashland County will prepare a property owners guide for developing, managing, and protecting shorelands within the county. This guide will provide information about governmental regulations and standards, building and site construction, water supply and waste disposal, and shoreland buffers and protection. Other resource issues to be covered in this guide include: 1. A laymans overview of watershed management; 2. An overview of Ashland County's surface waters, to include outstanding and exceptional resource waters; 3. What to look for when purchasing shoreland property; 4. Guidelines for landscaping and managing your shoreland property; 5. Impervious surfaces; 6. Shoreland lighting; and 7. Aquatic habitat protection This guide will be distributed to all lake associations, county real estate offices, local government regulatory agencies, and to persons inquiring or applying for shoreland land use permits. A specific product or deliverable for this grant project will be a copy of the prepared "Guide Booklet." The DNR will be provided with both a paper copy and an electronic copy of the final report.

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Lakes Grant
Lake Protection Grant
LPT-206-03
2002
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Grant Awarded
Ashland County will prepare a property owners guide for developing, managing, and protecting shorelands within the county. This guide will provide information about governmental regulations and standards, building and site construction, water supply and waste disposal, and shoreland buffers and protection. Other resource issues to be covered in this guide include: 1. A laymans overview of watershed management; 2. An overview of Ashland County's surface waters, to include outstanding and exceptional resource waters; 3. What to look for when purchasing shoreland property; 4. Guidelines for landscaping and managing your shoreland property; 5. Impervious surfaces; 6. Shoreland lighting; and 7. Aquatic habitat protection This guide will be distributed to all lake associations, county real estate offices, local government regulatory agencies, and to persons inquiring or applying for shoreland land use permits.
Lakes Protection Grant
Develop/Distribute Brochures/Literature
prepare a property owners guide for developing, managing, and protecting shorelands within the county.
Lake Classification
Ashland County will prepare a property owners guide for developing, managing, and protecting shorelands within the county. This guide will provide information about governmental regulations and standards, building and site construction, water supply and waste disposal, and shoreland buffers and protection.
 
Watershed