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Private Property Storm Water Policy
Brief Description: City Staff would like to discuss with City Council the update of the City's Storm Water Policy. City staff will present an outline of the discussions with the Ad Hoc Storm Water Committee and provide a draft update of the policy, which includes work on private property and criteria of this work.
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Legislative History
Res. No. 15-25 - Establishment of a Formal Storm Water Work Policy; 3/3/2015
Purpose & Explanation
In December 2021, City Council identified a desire to evaluate and update the City's policy for storm water related work, and to possibly resolve large issues on residential private property. As a result, an Ad Hoc Storm Water Committee which included both City Council members and City staff was appointed to review and update the policy.
The Ad Hoc Committee met on January 19, 2022 and March 10, 2022 to discuss the existing private property storm water policy, proposed goals of the new policy and potential implications of a new policy that would allow the City to perform storm water related work to resolve on-going, significant flood mitigation projects on private properties.
At the first meeting, the committee discussed the existing storm water policy and criteria, reviewed the City's existing nuisance code, reviewed the current, storm water projects identified in the 5-year capital budget and major, private property storm water issues that are not being addressed in the 5-year budget.
At the second Ad Hoc Committee Meeting, staff outlined and described existing, on-going private property storm water issues, key similarities between each issue and budgets necessary to address each issue.
The attached draft 2022 Storm Water Policy describes the intent and scoring criteria for prioritization of potential, private property storm water improvements to be addressed by the City. The Staff reviewed the list of the already evaluated, private property issues, potential projects to address...
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