Hope! A pre-existing driveway

Can you see the drive through the middle?

Access to the property has been a time-consuming issue for two major reasons:

1. There is no direct access to a public road.
2. The property includes significant wetlands.

Yes, the property has frontage on Lincolnway, northeast of downtown. However, the wetlands/flood plain are in that part of the property. The east side is the Pumpkin Vine; the north side is the city limits and Amber Meadows development and the west side is the county garage, a residence and other industries.

 

We want to preserve land and have the shortest possible driveway. We tried several routes, but are needing to use the already existing legal easement of Herman Street off Steury Street.

 

Next issue was that if we destroyed wetlands of more than 0.1 acre, we had to rebuild wetlands AND have them inspected by Army Corp of Engineers (ACE, although I don't know if that is an official acronym) several times a year for perhaps 5 years. Not only was this expensive, but invasive.

While exploring the land with friends, Dennis discovered a culvert and weeks later, an existing driveway. Perhaps if we were only improving an existing drive, the application process with ACE would be easier?