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Staff seeks guidance to add intermediate drought stage; council signals support
Summary
Environmental staff proposed moving from a three‑stage to a four‑stage drought contingency plan to better align with wholesale suppliers; the new intermediate stage would limit landscape irrigation to every other week and adjust triggers and surcharges. Council expressed support and asked staff to return with an amending ordinance.
Kelsey Delgado, the city’s environmental program manager, led a workshop Dec. 5 proposing amendments to Fair Oaks Ranch’s drought contingency plan to better align the city with its wholesale water suppliers (GBRA and Trinity Glen Rose) and to add an intermediate response stage.
Delgado recommended a four-stage framework that inserts a new Stage 3 between the current Stage 2 and the current Stage 3 (which would become Stage 4 under the proposal). The…
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