STONE HARBOR – The Borough Council has doubled down in its opposition to the state’s proposed Resilient Environments and Landscapes program, known as REAL, which tightens regulations on coastal development in the face of climate change.
Having previously adopted a county resolution urging the state to take an incremental approach to adopting the proposed rules, the council on Oct. 15 took the additional step of submitting an eight-page statement of objections to REAL prepared by its administrator, Manny Parada.
In the borough’s new comments on the proposed regulations, many of the objections stated in the previously adopted county resolution are restated, but new ones are added…