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Water Resources Commission reviews stormwater ordinance updates, debates 'performance fee' and 1981 rainfall standard
Summary
The commission reviewed proposed stormwater ordinance changes, including use of the 1981 rainfall file in design modeling, crediting green infrastructure and a renamed 'performance fee' to replace 'fee in lieu.' Staff will refine wording, check legal constraints and bring fee-schedule options to council.
The Water Resources Commission spent its meeting reviewing updates to the city’s stormwater ordinance, focusing on how infiltration and recharge are measured, how rainfall files are used in design models and how the city will treat projects that cannot meet on-site infiltration standards.
Unidentified Speaker 3, the meeting chair, opened the ordinance discussion and framed the committee’s approach: technical points should be resolved by staff and the chair, while substantive policy choices come back to the commission. Commissioners identified three central issues: reliance on the 1981 rainfall file for modeling, how to credit evapotranspiration and native vegetation in design, and whether to retain a payment option for projects that cannot meet specific infiltration targets.
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