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Lee County Planning Commission recommends change to stormwater rules; vote 3-0
Summary
The Lee County Planning Commission voted 3-0 to recommend a text amendment to the county's stormwater ordinance that would change how detention volumes are calculated, potentially reducing required pond sizes in many developments.
The Lee County Planning Commission voted 3-0 to recommend approval of a proposed text amendment to Title 11, Chapter 4 (Stormwater Management) that would change how the county calculates stormwater detention volumes, Lee County Engineer David Anderson told the commission.
The amendment would alter the design storms used to set release rates and storage volumes. "What we're proposing is that we change that, and we take a 2 year storm on an undeveloped site, and that will be the determined release rate," David Anderson said during the public hearing, adding that the 100-year event would be applied to the undeveloped…
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