(a) Any person or persons proposing to disturb one acre or more of land for residential, institutional, commercial, office and industrial purposes, including land development proposals for non-agricultural uses and public infrastructure uses, including transportation and utilities within the City shall design, develop, and submit a Site Development Plan as described in Section 916.06. Said plan will be evaluated to determine the potential for erosion, runoff, and sedimentation impacts that may result from such development activities.
(b) A Storm Water Management (SWM) plan shall be prepared as described in Section 916.07 to minimize the impacts of increased impervious surfaces.
(c) No earth-disturbing activity subject to regulation under this chapter shall be undertaken for any land disturbance equal to or greater than one acre without an approved Site Development Plan as required under Section 916.06 and a Storm Water Management (SWM) Plan as required under Section 916.07.
(d) Final approval of a proposed development, redevelopment, street or utility project shall not be given unless:
(1) A determination is made by the City Engineer based on submission of a Site Development Plan as detailed in Section 916.06 that the proposed earth- disturbing activity will minimize accelerated runoff, erosion, and/or sediment.
(2) A SWM plan has been approved by the City Engineer that determines that the proposed earth-disturbing activity will not cause accelerated runoff, erosion, and/or sediment.
(e) Any person or persons seeking approval to construct a structure shall be exempted from having to prepare a Site Development Plan and a SWM plan provided they meet all of the following:
(1) Construction takes place on one parcel.
(2) The earth-disturbing activity does not affect more than one acre of the development site at a time.
(3) The activity is not located within a floodplain or floodway as identified by FEMA.
(4) The parcel is part of an overall development plan which has received approval of a SWM plan and the developer certifies that they will comply with said plan.
(f) This chapter does not apply to:
(1) Land-disturbing activities related to producing agricultural crops or silviculture operations regulated by the Ohio Agricultural Sediment Pollution Abatement Rules (1501: 15-3-01 to 1501: 15-309 of the Ohio Administrative Code).
(2) Existing strip mining operations regulated by Ohio R.C. Chapter 1513.
(3) Existing surface mining operations regulated by Ohio R.C. Chapter 1514. (Ord. 11-35. Passed 7-25-11.)