1. (a) Any activity that would destroy, raze, deface, reduce, alter, build on, or remove any sand or vegetation from any sand dune shall be a major impact project unless it does not require a permit as specified in Env-Wt 611.02 or is a project that qualifies as a minimum impact project as specified in Env-Wt 611.07.
2. (b) Major projects shall be subject to the mitigation requirements specified in Env-Wt 311, Env-Wt 313, Env-Wt 605, and Env-Wt 800.

3. (c) Major projects shall include, but are not limited to:

   1. (1) Development of an undeveloped in-fill lot located contiguous to the fore dune;
   2. (2) Removal with heavy equipment or other tracked or wheeled machinery of a portion of a formed or vegetated sand dune that has encroached on an existing dwelling to a degree that cannot be remedied by use of hand tools;
   3. (3) Changes to the morphology of an existing or forming dune or removal of established dune vegetation;
   4. (4) Previously developed in-fill lots found to have threatened or endangered species located on the lot; and
   5. (5) Any other proposal to alter by regulated activity any area of fore dune or back dune.

Source. #12806, eff 12-15-19; ss by #13775, eff 10-13-23