Future access to floodplains, flood control facilities, runoff drainage ditches and channels, runoff storage facilities, storm sewers and other drainageways and structures, as required by the Building Commissioner, shall be secured by means of easements.
(a) The easements shall be recorded in the name of the City of Rocky River and, in single-family residential developments, the homeowners association.
(b) Unless otherwise required by the City Engineer, access easements to all storm water management practices shall be no less than twenty (20) feet wide. The easement shall also incorporate the entire storm water management practice, plus an additional fifteen (15) feet wide band around the perimeter of the storm water management practice. Access easements shall be provided on one (1) side of the flood control or storm drainage ditch, channel, or similar type facility.
(c) Easements for the emergency flow ways shall be a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet in width, or larger if required by the Building Commissioner.
(d) Flood control or storm drainage easements containing underground facilities shall have a minimum width of twenty-five (25) feet.
(e) The easements shall be restricted against the planting within said easement of trees, shrubbery or plantings with woody growth characteristics, and against the construction therein of buildings, accessory buildings, fences, walls or any other obstructions to the free flow of storm water and the movement of inspectors and maintenance equipment and also restricted against the changing of final grade from that described by the grading plan.
(Ord. 70-12. Passed 11-13-12.)