'Impervious' could become a new dirty word

From the Lakeland Times CLICK HERE

Nonconformity goes by the wayside in shoreland proposal

...Indeed, regulating all structures within 300 feet of the ordinary high water mark based on their amount of impervious surfaces rather than on a 50-percent rule for nonconforming structures (limiting repairs and reconstruction to 50 percent of the structure's current equalized value over its lifetime) represents the most sweeping change in the new proposal.

...How subjective will they be? Will they lead to even more inconsistent decisions on similar properties? Will the models be so stringent as to require exorbitantly expensive mitigation on existing nonconforming properties - a strategy that could doom nonconforming properties anyway, despite the new flexibility on repair and maintenance?