In 2017, they built their dream home, on a seemingly ideal country lot — 3.6 acres ringed by trees, with a pond and wetland at the rear, where the deer and the waterfowl played.
They moved into the 2,000 sq.-ft. home on the outskirts of Carp, off Richardson Side Road, on Aug. 31 that year. Only a month later, on Oct. 1 — with the paint barely dry — the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority enacted new regulations covering smaller wetlands, anything larger than 1.2 acres, rules that came with significant land-use limitations.
Their dream property, a $700,000 investment, was now in handcuffs. Yet they were in the dark.
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