(A) The town and its employees and contractors shall not remove soil, sand, or rock materials from any washes, arroyos, and drainage channels on property that is privately owned or on property where the title is transferred to or acquired by the town unless it falls within the public right-of-way or permission is granted by the property owner.
(B) The town shall not provide funding for the modification of the normal flow of permanent or intermittent water across the topography of the town on public or privately owned property by the construction of side bank channelization unless needed to protect existing public improvements.
(C) (1) The town and its employees and contractors shall not remove, relocate, or trim any vegetation in washes, arroyos, and drainage channels on property that is privately owned.
(2) The Town Engineer shall be responsible for identifying a list of projects and presenting a report on each proposed road construction and/or reconstruction project to the Town Council for approval.
(D) The town and its employees and contractors shall not dump, fill, or otherwise dispose of any materials within drainage channels on private property unless emergency conditions exist where placing of material is needed to protect public improvements. On public property where the title is transferred to or acquired by the town, no materials should be placed without contacting the Town Council, and the County Health and Flood Control District officials unless needed to protect existing public improvements.
(E) The town will not permit persons subdividing private property to construct additional public roads that traverse major drainage channels (that is, Galloway Wash, Grapevine Wash, Cave Creek Wash), washes, and creeks unless the actual crossing is either a bridged roadway or a paved at-grade roadway for a low water crossing allowing for a two-year frequency storm and nuisance water to pass under said crossing and a paved dip-section with cut-off walls to allow a 100-year flood to pass over the dip section.
(Ord. O2019-05, passed 1-21-20)