The Environmental Protection Division requested Suwanee create a conservation easement for the stream buffer associated with the Town Center on Main project. The Suwanee City Council recently approved the 3.20-acre conservation easement.
The purpose of the easement is to maintain and improve water, biological, soil, scenic, and ecosystem resources. The plan also “protects the richness of biodiversity and natural habitat, keeping the area wild or undisturbed in character and to promote good stewardship of the land so that it will be able to support the Brushy Creek Greenway trail.”
The agreement prohibits further development of the area but does allow for transfer to a qualified organization for park, nature preserve, public trail, or other conservation purposes.
Existing Improvements to the area may be maintained, repaired, and replaced in their existing locations. Future improvements could include fences, walls, and gates, birdhouses and bat houses, footbridges, railings, stream crossing structures, stream bank stabilization measures, elevated boardwalks, and observation decks.
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