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Wetlands on a property can kill a development deal by blocking construction, shrinking buildable space, or forcing expensive mitigation. Get a qualified specialist to delineate the wetlands and map what you can actually build on.

Wetlands on a property can kill a development deal by blocking construction, shrinking buildable space, or forcing expensive mitigation. Get a qualified specialist to delineate the wetlands and map what you can actually build on.
Wetlands. This is one of the biggest deal killers. You may not be allowed to build at all, or only within a very limited area, or you may need mitigation, and that is expensive and uncertain. Sometimes the entire parcel is effectively unusable. The best way to figure out whether wetlands impact a particular parcel is to contract with a specialist to do a wetland assessment or a wetland delineation to determine where the wetland begins or ends and to determine where the buildable envelope exists.