MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – Following years of loosely regulated residential development, Mon County commissioners and county planner Andrew Gast-Bray are finalizing the rules.
Last year, residents from the Cheat Lake area brought a petition to commissioners asking for help to get the DOH to repair roads and establish drainage. Residents told commissioners that years of unregulated development have led to washouts, slides and damage to private property.
Those situation were aggravated by intense rainfall events in June of 2019.
Gast-Bray told commissioners that in addition to many comments and concerns from the public they have been working with the DOH, developers and members of the finance community to develop rules that work for residents.
Gast-Bray says because of the volume of comments and input the process has been extended from the scheduled March 1 roll out.
“Its probably going to be more like May 1,” Gast-Bray said,”Because you need to have thirty days for public review.”
Additional public meeting are planned for April of this year.