BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS LEON COUNTY, FLORIDA

Policy 1.3.15: [C] (Effective 7/1/04; Renumbered Effective 74/26/06) City of Tallahassee Only
Attachment #1
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Local government recognizes that the design of a site is in part an economic decision, and that offsite
mitigation may be accomplished by several means. Consequently, the preferred hierarchy of off-site
mitigation strategies for significant grades shall be as follows:
(1) Participation in a mitigation bank established within the same major drainage basin that is
managed to generate all of the environmental services provided by significant grades.
(2) Participation in a mitigation bank established in another major drainage basin that is managed
to generate all of the environmental services provided by significant grades.
(3) Via conservation easement or similar instrument, bona fide preservation and management on
other property owned or to be acquired by the applicant equal to twice (two times) the
acreage of significant grades on-site to be mitigated.
(4) Fees-in-Lieu provided to Local Government to acquire and manage property to compensate
for the loss of environmental services provided by significant grades, plus a stormwater
management surcharge to compensate for within-drainage basin impacts attributable to the
loss of significant grades.
Staff Note: “City of Tallahassee Only” Policy 1.3.14 [C] is proposed for removal. This policy provides
specific direction for the off-site mitigation option that is proposed for removal.
Page 366 of 622 Posted at 5:00 p.m. on April 1, 2013