Item 2: Ordinance on Water Quality Overlay Zone

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c. If not replanted within 15 days of disturbance, areas of bare soil shall be mulched and seeded with straw mulch and native seed for temporary stabilization within 15 days of disturbance. (c) Maintenance, Repair and Reconstruction Activities. 1. Removal of refuse; 2. Removal of fill in response to a written determination from a regulating agency that the fill is in violation of local, state or federal regulations; 3. Maintenance, repair and reconstruction of streets, bridges, driveways, parking areas and pathways, including, but not limited to, sweeping, striping, sealing, and resurfacing, provided such activity is not a part of a broader project for which additional incursion into the /WQ Management Area is proposed; 4. Channel maintenance practices, including mowing and sediment removal necessary to maintain stormwater conveyance and flood control capacity or to protect water quality, as required by local policies, local, state, and federal regulations, and intergovernmental agreements; and 5. Maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of utility facilities such as wastewater and stormwater pipes, culverts, electrical transmission lines, and television and cable systems, provided such activity is not a part of a broader project for which additional incursion into the /WQ Management Area is proposed; (d) Emergency Activities. 1. Emergency repair of utility facilities (such as wastewater and stormwater pipes, electrical transmission lines, and television and cable systems) and transportation facilities (such as roadways, bridges, bikeways and pathways), failing slopes or eroding channel banks or channel beds; provided the city engineer has declared in writing that: a. Immediate repair is necessary to avert an imminent threat to water quality, the environment, public health, public safety, or the structural integrity of the utility facilities, transportation facilities, stream channel banks or stream channel beds, or structural integrity of adjacent structure(s); and b. The method of repair will minimize impacts to water quality and any emergency repairs resulting in bare soil conditions will comply with EC 9.4780(2)(b)2.; 2. Emergency response to spills of materials that threaten water quality; 3. Fire suppression and medical emergency response operations; (e) Construction and Maintenance of Vegetated Stormwater Management Facilities. Swales, filter strips, constructed wetlands, and other vegetated stormwater management facilities for pollution reduction or flow control are permitted if otherwise approved through the provisions of EC 9.6791 through 9.6797 in accordance with the Stormwater Management Manual adopted by Ordinance - 6