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Council refers stormwater nitrogen-control text amendment to planning commission after buffer/detention questions
Summary
Council unanimously referred a zoning text amendment that would move four stormwater/nitrogen-control requirements directly into the Unified Development Ordinance to make enforcement easier. Councilmember Behringer pressed staff to ask the Planning Commission to consider requiring 100‑year detention in the Swift Creek watershed.
Garner — The Town Council unanimously voted Feb. 4 to send a proposed text amendment to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) to the Planning Commission for formal consistency review. The amendment would codify four measures from the town’s nitrogen-control stormwater program directly into the UDO so the town can enforce them more easily.
The four measures proposed for insertion into the UDO are: (1) at project closeout or certificate of occupancy, engineered stormwater controls and public storm-drain infrastructure must be submitted to the town for review and acceptance; (2) operations-and-maintenance (O&M) agreements for stormwater control measures must be executed by…
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