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Staff propose limiting rock mulch in detention ponds, move standards to stormwater manual
Summary
City planning staff proposed a temporary text amendment to remove ambiguous 'mulching' language from the land development code, default to vegetative plantings for detention facilities, and allow rock mulch only in narrow, site-constrained cases while the stormwater manual (SWIM) is updated; commissioners raised maintenance and cost concerns.
City planning staff presented a proposed temporary text amendment that would remove specific detention-pond landscaping rules from the land development code and instead reference the city’s stormwater manual, commonly called the SWIM, at a Planning Commission workshop.
Daniella (staff member) told commissioners the SWIM is undergoing updates and that the text amendment is intended as an interim cleanup to remove a long-standing loophole. "If you go to our definitions in the land development code, mulching also includes rock," Daniella said, arguing that the code’s current wording caused unintended allowances for rock in detention basins.
The amendment would shorten the…
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