The purpose of this chapter is to help protect the city’s surface waters and quality of life by reducing the negative impacts of sediment, rainfall, melting snow, and other water runoff. This chapter seeks to meet that purpose through the following objectives:
(A) Minimize increases in stormwater runoff from development within the city limits and fringe area in order to reduce flooding, siltation, increases in stream temperature, and streambank erosion and maintain the integrity of stream channels;
(B) Minimize increases in nonpoint source pollution caused by stormwater runoff from development which would otherwise degrade local water quality;
(C) Minimize the total annual volume of surface water runoff which flows from any specific development project site after completion to not exceed the predevelopment hydrologic regime to the maximum extent practicable; and
(D) Reduce stormwater runoff rates and volumes, soil erosion, and nonpoint source pollution, wherever possible, through the establishment of appropriate minimum stormwater management standards and BMPs and to ensure that BMPs are properly maintained and pose no threat to public safety.
(Prior Code, § 6-21-2)