Item 2: Ordinance on Water Quality Overlay Zone

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materials, and dumping, piling, or disposal of refuse, fill, yard debris, pet waste, or other material. 9.4782 Water Quality Function Rating System. (1) When this code requires the use of the city’s Water Quality Function Rating System, the applicant shall comply with the requirements contained in the administrative order adopted by the city manager pursuant to EC 2.019 City Manager – Administrative and Rulemaking Authority and Procedures. As more specifically described in that order, the city’s Water Quality Function Rating System sets out a process for evaluating a specific /WQ Management Area’s water quality function based on the presence or frequency of enumerated characteristics. (2) Unless waived by the planning director, that portion of the application utilizing the city’s Water Quality Function Rating System shall be prepared by one or more of the following professionals: (a) Oregon licensed architect; (b) Oregon licensed civil or geotechnical engineer; (c) Oregon licensed landscape architect; (d) Oregon licensed geologist; (e) A professionally trained botanist, biologist, ecologist or geomorphologist; or (f) A creek restoration specialist with a bachelor’s degree in the subject field and at least 5 years of applied experience in botany, biology, ecology, geomorphology or a closely related field. 9.4784 /WQ Water Quality Overlay Zone – Adjustments. (1) Adjustments to the provisions of EC 9.4778 /WQ Water Quality Overlay Zone – /WQ Management Area may be made subject to compliance with the criteria for adjustment in EC 9.8030(25)(a) or (b). (2) Adjustments to the provisions of EC 9.4780 /WQ Water Quality Overlay Zone – Permitted and Prohibited Uses or 9.4790 /WQ Water Quality Overlay Zone – Development Standards may be made subject to compliance with the criteria for adjustment in EC 9.8030(25)(c). 9.4786 /WR Water Quality Overlay Zone – Map Correction/Removal of Overlay Zone. Consistent with the application requirements at EC 9.7010, proposals to correct the Water Quality Waterways Map shall be subject to the procedures and criteria in this section. When considering an application to remove the /WQ Water Quality Overlay Zone from a specific lot, the provisions of this section apply instead of the zone change procedures and criteria described at EC 9.8850 through 9.8865. (1) Application Requirements. Except as provided in EC 9.8005(2), the application shall be processed under the Type II application procedure (EC 9.7200 – 9.7230). (a) If an error on the Water Quality Waterways Map is alleged, the application shall: 1. Identify the waterway or /WQ Management Area alleged to have been incorrectly mapped; Ordinance - 12