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Lee County proposes stormwater ordinance change to reduce detention-pond sizes and add exemptions
Summary
County transportation official outlined a proposed text amendment to Lee County Code Title 11 that would change runoff calculations, reduce required detention-pond sizes in rural areas and add exemptions for small developments, single-family homes and some solar farms; the amendment was sent to the planning commission.
Lee County transportation and solid-waste official Dave Anderson told the committee he is pursuing a text amendment to Title 11, Chapter 4 of the Lee County Code to reduce required detention-pond sizes for new development and to formalize some current exemptions.
Anderson said the central change would be to calculate the undeveloped-site release rate using a two-year storm instead of a five-year storm, while continuing to apply the 100-year storm for sizing. “The main thing … is essentially a reduction in the size of the detention…
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