Morano asks about environmental protections; Ferrara clarifies DOS is zoning regulation
Morano begins asking about environmental protections; Catie Ferrara Iannitto adds that DOS is a zoning regulation, not an environmental regulation, and wetlands, parkland, and other protections remain in place through other agencies.
I also want to ask about the, sorry.
Oh, yes.
Katie, do you have a follow-up?
Thank you.
I just want to add a little further context to George's response.
Katie Farrar, IANIDO Director of DCP Staten Island Office.
We just note that DOS itself is a zoning regulation.
I would not define it as an environmental regulation.
So there are still layers of regulatory protection on any existing wetlands by Department of Environmental Conservation, other agencies.
Parkland that overlaps with DOS will continue to be parkland.
So just to note that all these protections very much still stay in place and are considered and analyzed if and when a home or any development is proposed.
Adjacent to or kind of within that buffer area by multiple agencies.