r/wetlands

I'm assuming it is because someone parceled it out a long time ago, but I wanted to double check. We've owned a property in Florida for a long time. A developer is trying to build an apartment community on the adjacent property. I went to the community meeting. They said that they are only building on upland.

I went to the national wetland inventory site. It shows the land we own as PFOFd. I went to go walk the property, and it seemed to have the same types of trees. It was pretty thick, so I didn't go too far into it.

I spoke to someone about 5 years ago about it. She said that maybe 10 percent would be potentially be considered upland. It's about 10 acres. She said wetland mitigation is very expensive, but she didn't go into detail. She said that soil samples were taken in the 70's, and it is pretty accurate what is wetlands.

What are my possible future uses for a property like this? Would I maybe be able to build my personal residence? It is zoned residential 1 (I'm located in Florida).

One real estate agent said I should approach the developer and see if they would buy it for wetland mitigation credits. I'm not sure what that means.

What other websites can I use to research this further?

Hi! Please forgive my ignorance, I've been trying to do the research myself, but sometimes you just have to ask the dumb questions.

I'm trying to solidify a fictional map in my head and I'm wondering if there's any real-life locations that I could possibly look into as a reference point, and was hoping someone could point me to those.

Ideally I need these three things, 'walkably' close to each other:

1. A raised peat bog (this is the big one)
2. An ocean
3. A river (or some sort of "safe" water source)

-- basically I'd like to be able to craft a fictional settlement on top of the bog (From what I've gleaned PEOPLE DO NOT LIVE IN RAISED BOGS, and it's a terrible idea to. I've been looking Crannogs and such, but I've been struggling to find much.)

My big dumb question is, is this possible? Like can all 3 of these things exist nearby together?
My second big dumb question is: what would some of the major, obvious, pitfalls to living in a raised bog be?

Regardless, thank you for taking the time to read this!

EDIT:

THANK YOU SO MUCH everyone that has weighed in, this was extremely useful!!!! I have some reference points now.

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i’m writing a story for some of my characters, and right now they’re in a bog. the problem is, i don’t know anything about bogs, and all the sites i’ve been using to research use very scientific words i don’t understand. can anyone in the field help me?

do trees grow in just a regular bog? if so, what trees? where would a bog need to be for crocodiles to be a threat? what type of land grows around bogs? what animals live in bogs? literally anything you can tell me is extremely appreciated, i’m very lost. any sites you can direct me to would be great.