Access to flood control or storm drainage facilities for emergency, inspection, maintenance and improvement purposes shall be provided as follows:
(a) Access to flood control or storm drainage ditches, channels and storage facilities shall be by means of easements. Such an easement shall be not less than twenty feet in width, exclusive of the width of the ditch, channel or other facility it is to serve. An easement of this type shall be provided on one side of the flood control or storm drainage ditch, channel or similar facility.
(b) Access along flood control or storm drainage ditches and channels shall be by means of easements. Such an easement shall be not less than twenty feet in width, exclusive of the width of the ditch, channel or other facility it is to serve. An easement of this type shall be provided on both sides of a flood control or storm drainage ditch, channel or similar facility.
(c) Access along the initial drainage system shall be by means of easements. Such an easement shall be not less than twenty feet in width, with a minimum of ten feet in width on each side of the centerline.
(d) Access around storage facilities shall be a twenty-five foot easement in the case of detention (dry) basins, and a twenty-five foot easement with a twenty-five foot level bench in the case of retention (wet) basins, measured from the top of the bank and shall include the storage facility itself.
(e) Easements for emergency flow ways shall be a minimum of twenty feet in width or larger if required.
(f) Flood control or storm drainage easements containing underground facilities shall have a minimum width of twenty feet.
(g) Those lots crossed by an easement are restricted against the planting within such easement of trees, shrubbery or plantings with woody growth characteristics, and against the construction therein of buildings, accessory buildings, fences, walls or other obstructions to the free flow of storm water. Such lots are also restricted against changing of the final grade from that described by the approved grading plan.
(Ord. 05-79. Passed 6-7-05.)