Opinion ID: 2542695
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Slopes

Text: The FCDC encourages developers to provide open space on slopes between fifteen and thirty percent. The Administrator awarded Eagle's Nest a score of +12 because the use of building envelopes, areas where land owners cannot build, would protect slopes. Cowan argues the Board should have accepted his expert's score of zero, but this request is nothing more than asking this Court to review a factual finding. After the hearing on the final plat, and considering both the Administrator's score and the testimony of Cowan's expert, the Board found that the final plat included slope information and determined that the project proposed building envelopes which prevented the development from disturbing slopes. Since no slopes would be disturbed, the Board concluded, the score given by the Administrator was appropriate. Here, the Board heard and considered conflicting evidence. It chose to rely on the evidence presented by the Administrator, and such evidence is both substantial and competent. That it chose to rely on evidence other than the testimony of Cowan's expert is not error.