(a) The City is divided into the watersheds enumerated below and shown on the map entitled "Watershed Districts", which map is on file at the office of the City Engineer and made a part of this chapter by reference. These watershed districts are established to implement a long-range City plan to facilitate the orderly and beneficial growth of the City and its environs, and to promote the public health, safety, convenience, comfort, prosperity and general welfare.
(1) Cross Creek Watershed District
(2) Permars Run Watershed District
(3) Wills Creek Watershed District
(4) Ohio River Sand Bar Watershed District
(b) No person, the owner of any property or in possession or control of any property, shall cause, permit or allow any new development or subdivision of land except in conformance with an approved Storm Water Management Plan and the requirements of these regulations, provided however that in order to prevent undue hardship, no Storm Water Management Plan shall be required for:
(1) Normal cemetery operations including the opening or closing of graves or the construction of mausoleums;
(2) The construction of a single-family dwelling or two-family dwelling, or structures accessory thereto on a lot of record;
(3) Minor subdivisions containing no more than five lots, not including any new streets or easements of access and not requiring the extension of public water or sanitary sewer lines;
(4) Any townhouse/rowhouse or multi-family residential, commercial, industrial or institutional development of land with a site area of less than one acre, however a plot plan with the proposed method of controlling storm water runoff indicated, including specific requirements established by the City Engineer, shall be submitted; and
(5) Public highways, transportation and drainage improvements or maintenance thereof undertaken by a governmental agency provided that its standard storm water management policies have been approved by the City Engineer or the chief of the Division of Soil and Water Conservation of the Department of Natural Resources and provided further that such practices are no less restrictive than these regulations.
(c) No development or subdivision of land initiated pursuant to subsections (b)(1) through (5) hereof shall interfere with adequate drainage for the site or the drainage area of the land tributary to the site; impede or obstruct the flow of any watercourse; or adversely affect existing storm sewers or storm water management facilities. The submittal of specific information or documentation may be required to determine compliance.
(Ord. 1991-122. Passed 11-18-91.)