A. This Part shall apply to those areas of the City of Reading within the Schuylkill River and Tulpehocken Creek Watersheds, as delineated in Appendix D which is hereby adopted as part of this Part.
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B. This Part shall only apply to permanent nonstructural and structural stormwater management best management practices (BMPs) constructed as part of any of the regulated activities listed in this section.
C. This Part contains only the stormwater management performance standards and design criteria that are necessary or desirable from a watershed-wide perspective. Local stormwater management design criteria (e.g., inlet spacing, inlet type, collection system design and details, outlet structure design, etc.) shall continue to be regulated by the applicable municipal ordinances and applicable state regulations.
D. The following activities are defined as "regulated activities" and shall be regulated by this Part:
(1) Land development.
(2) Subdivisions.
(3) Alteration of the natural hydrologic regime.
(4) Construction or reconstruction of, or additional impervious or semipervious surfaces (driveways, parking lots, roads, etc.).
(5) Construction of new buildings or additions to existing buildings.
(6) Redevelopment of a site which will increase runoff or change a discharge point. Any redevelopment that does not increase the runoff must still comply with § 505-124, Nonstructural project design, § 505-125, Groundwater recharge, § 505-126, Water quality requirements, and § 505-127, Stream bank erosion requirements"
(7) Diversion piping or encroachments in any natural or man-made channel.
(8) Nonstructural and structural stormwater management BMPs or appurtenances thereto.
(9) Regulated earth disturbance.
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(10) City permit-regulated construction activities.
(11) Any of the above-regulated activities which were approved more than five years prior to the effective date of this Part and resubmitted for municipal approval.
3. Editor's Note: Appendix D is included at the end of this chapter.
4. Note: Earth disturbance activities and associated stormwater management controls are also regulated under existing state law and implementing regulations. This Part shall operate in coordination with those parallel requirements; the requirements of this Part shall be no less restrictive in meeting the purposes of this Part than state law.