A. The principal purpose of this title is to promote effective, equitable, acceptable, and legal stormwater management measures. Other purposes of this title include:
1. Managing and mitigating the effects of urbanization on stormwater drainage throughout the village; and
2. Reducing the existing potential for stormwater damage to public health, safety, life, and property; and
3. Protecting human life and health from the hazards of flooding and degradation of water quality; and
4. Protecting and enhancing the quality, quantity, and availability of surface and ground water resources; and
5. Preserving and enhancing existing wetlands, buffers and aquatic environments, and encouraging restoration of degraded areas; and
6. Controlling sediment and erosion in and from stormwater facilities, developments, and construction sites; and
7. Preventing the further degradation of the quality of ground and surface waters; and
8. Requiring appropriate and adequate provision for site runoff control, especially when the land is developed for human activity; and
9. Requiring the design and evaluation of each site runoff control plan consistent with watershed capacities; and
10. Encouraging the use of stormwater storage in preference to stormwater conveyance; and
11. Lessening the taxpayers' burden for flood related disasters, repairs to flood damaged public facilities and utilities, and flood rescue and relief operations; and
12. Meeting the Illinois department of natural resources, office of water resources' floodway permitting requirements delineated in 615 Illinois Compiled Statutes 5/18g ("an act in relation to the regulation of the rivers, lakes and streams of the state of Illinois"), as amended from time to time; and
13. Making federally subsidized flood insurance available to individual communities and for property throughout the county; and
14. Complying with the rules and regulations of the national flood insurance program codified in title 44 of the code of federal regulations; and
15. Encouraging cooperation between the county, the village, and other governmental entities with respect to floodplain and stormwater management; and
16. Requiring cooperation and consistency in stormwater management activities within and between the units of government having stormwater management jurisdiction; and
17. Restricting future development in the floodplain to facilities that will not adversely affect the floodplain environments or adversely affect the potential for flood damage; and
18. Incorporating water quality and habitat protection measures in all stormwater management activities within the village; and
19. Requiring regular, planned maintenance of stormwater management facilities; and
20. Encouraging control of stormwater quantity and quality at the most site specific or local level; and
21. Allowing the use of simple technologies whenever appropriate and realistic, but requiring the use of more sophisticated techniques when necessary to ensure the adequacy of stormwater controls;
22. Reserved; and
23. Requiring strict compliance with and enforcement of this title.
B. The purposes of this title are consistent with the plan.
C. The purposes of this title will be implemented by its provisions. (Ord. G-976, 7-24-2012)