Future access to floodplains, flood control facilities, runoff drainage ditches and channels, runoff storage facilities, storm sewers and other drainage ways and structures, as required by the City Engineer, shall be secured by means of easements.
(a) Easements shall be approved by the City Engineer and shall be recorded with the Cuyahoga County Auditor and on all property deeds.
(b) Unless otherwise required by the City Engineer, access easements between a public right-of-way and all storm water management practices shall be no less than 20-feet wide. The easement shall also incorporate the entire storm water management practice, plus an additional 15-foot wide band around the perimeter of the storm water management practice.
(c) The easement shall be graded and/or stabilized as necessary to allow maintenance equipment to access and manipulate around and within each facility, as defined in the inspection and maintenance agreement for the site.
(d) Easements to structural storm water management practices shall be restricted against the construction therein of buildings, fences, walls, and other structures that may obstruct the free flow of storm water and the passage of inspector and maintenance equipment; and against the changing of final grade from that described by the final grading plan approved by the City. Any re-grading and/or obstruction placed within a maintenance easement may be removed by the City at the property owners' expense.
(Ord. 10090-2017. Passed 6- 20-17.)