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Friday — May 14, 2004

News

Council acts to protect wet lands


By GREGORY FOLEY
Express Staff Writer

Ketchum City Council members this week took a strong stance against development in protected riparian areas.

In a special meeting Wednesday, May 12, council members upheld a 2003 decision by the city demanding that an elaborate stone patio determined to be encroaching into a designated riparian zone be removed in its entirety.

The decision came during an appeal by Sunni and Richard Gadsby, residents at 505 Broadway Blvd., of a January 2004 decision by the Ketchum Planning and Zoning Commission.

The P&Z had determined that a new stone patio the Gadsbys built between their residence and a pond near Warm Springs Creek violates city policy pertaining to riparian areas.

The new patio was built to replace a pre-existing wooden deck. City Planning Director Harold Moniz in October 2003 ordered that the patio be removed and the riparian area be restored.

Council members voted unanimously to uphold the P&Z determination that the patio is illegal.

Councilman Baird Gourlay said allowing the structure to remain would set a precedent of allowing encroachment into the city’s designated 25-foot riparian-zone setback.

"This opens up a can of worms if we let this appeal to stand," he said.

Gary Slette, attorney for the Gadsbys, argued that the patio is not located in a protected area and is legal under city ordinances.

Slette indicated that the City Council decision Wednesday will almost certainly be challenged in court.


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