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ORDINANCE NO. ~°I c1 3~S AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING THE COMPREHENSIVE STORMWATER MANAG PLAN GOALS AND POLICIES. The City Council of the City of Eugene finds that A, In 1991 City staff began work on the Comprehensive Stormwater Management Plan ~CSWMP} in order to ensure the City's compliance with new federal water quali mandates, implement quality of life policies in the Metro Plan and West Eugene wetlands Plan related to starmwater management, and to provide for drainage and ffoad control protection. B. CSWMP addresses the mandates of the federal Clean water Act that the City reduce stormwater pollution within its municipal drainage system to the maximum extent practicable through adoption of a water quality management plan; establishes policies far dealing with stormwater conveyance and urban storm runoff in a comprehensive manner; establishes goals for future function of the system; and recommends implementation measures. C. The initial draft of CSwMP was distributed for public review on July 29,1993. Prior to and subsequent to its release, numerous efforts were made to solicit public input, including surveys, questionnaires, verbal and written communications, the inclusion of general information in neighborhood newsletters, and at work sessions conducted by the Planning Commission on February 8,1993 and the City Council on March 8,1993 and July 26,1993. D, The comments regarding CSWMP received during this period were forwarded to the Eugene Planning Commission. Additional work sessions on CSWMP were held b y the Planning Comn~ss~on on August 2,1993, the City Council an August 4,1993, and b .. y staff on August 18,1993. The Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on the draft on September 7,1993. Fallowing the public hearing, work sessions were held by the City Council on September 13,1993 and by the Planning Commission on September 20,1993 and October 4,1993. E. On October 4, 1993, the Eugene Planning Commission proposed Honor changes to the Introduction section of Chapter 2 of the draft CSWMP that descr~~bes the relationship of CSWMP to groundwater concerns, and proposed the addition of new Recommended Actions requiring consisten with state oundwater uali re ations and cY In q tY ~ unanimously recommended that the Council approve the draft CSWMP as amended by the Planning Commission. F. On October 25, 1993, the Eugene City Council held a public hearing an the Ordinance -1