(A) Title. This subchapter shall be known as the "Post-Construction Runoff Quality Control Ordinance" of the city and may be so cited.
(B) Purpose. The purpose of this subchapter is to provide regulations and measures that will address the issue of stormwater quality in the city and to establish procedures by which these requirements are to be administered and enforced.
(C) Jurisdiction.
(1) This subchapter shall govern all properties within the jurisdictional boundaries of the city, including areas of shared development review through a fringe with Floyd County, Indiana as established by an interlocal agreement adopted by both jurisdictions.
(2) The city requires that all development or redevelopment activities that result in the disturbance of one or more acres of land, including land disturbing activities on individual lots of less than one acre that are part of a larger common plan of development or sale, shall obtain a stormwater quality management permit (SWQMP).
(3) (a) The following activities are exempt from the provisions of this subchapter:
1. Agricultural land management activities; and
2. Renovations and amendments to existing buildings disturbing less than one acre.
(b) This exemption applies only to permitting procedures and does not apply to any discharge of sediment or other form of water pollution that may leave a site. These discharges may be enforced as illicit discharges by other sections of the city code.
(Ord. G-06-12, passed 4-20-2006)