TO: Mayor and Members of City Council
THRU: Adam Lindsay, Assistant City Manager
FROM: Sheila Thomas-Ambat, Public Services Director
DATE: March 25, 2024
RE:
Title
Stormwater Ordinance Text Amendments, Sec. 23-33 Ownership & Maintenance of Stormwater Management Facilities & Sec. 23-35 Performance Guarantee for Installation
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COUNCIL DISTRICT(S):
Council District(s)
All
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Relationship To Strategic Plan:
Goal 3: High Quality Built Environment
Goal 4: Desirable Place to Live, Work and Recreate
Executive Summary:
At the March 4, 2024 City Council Work Session, staff discussed proposed changes to the City's Stormwater Ordinance with respect to section 23-33(B). Section 23-33(B) outlines the conditions for single-family residential stormwater management facilities to be accepted by the City for functional maintenance. Council guidance was to remove the option for accepting functional maintenance of these facilities. In addition, Council directed staff to draft an amendment to Sec. 23-35 Performance Guarantee for Installation. To proposed amendment would do away with the City's practice of holding performance securities for a period of one year after final approval of the stormwater management facilities.
Staff now seeks City Council action to amend the Ordinance to amend City Code Section 23-33 & 23-35 to end the process for turning over functional maintenance of residential of single-family residential SCMs to the City and to end the holding of performance securities for up to a year after final approval.
Background:
The City's Stormwater Development Ordinance was adopted on October 27, 2008. Since its effective date of January 1, 2009, the ordinance has been amended on multiple occasions. The purpose of the Stormwater Control Ordinance is to protect, maintain, and enhance the public health, safety, and general welfare by establishing minimum requirements and procedures to control the adverse effects of the increase in stormwater qu...
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