Item C: Stormwater Development Standards

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Goal 13 - Energy Conservation. To conserve energy. The amendments do not impact energy conservation. Therefore, Goal 13 does not apply. Goal 14 - Urbanization. To provide for an orderly and efficient transition from rural to urban land use. The amendments do not affect the Citys provisions regarding the transition of land from rural to = urban uses. Therefore, Goal 14 does not apply. Goal 15 - Willamette River Greenway. To protect, conserve, enhance and maintain the natural, scenic, historical, agricultural, economic and recreational qualities of lands along the Willamette River as the Willamette River Greenway. The Willamette River Greenway area within the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary is governed by existing local provisions that have been acknowledged as complying with Goal 15. Those provisions are unchanged by these amendments. Therefore, Goal 15 does not apply. Goals 16 - 19. Estuarine Resources, Coastal Shorelands, Beaches and Dunes, and Ocean Resources. These Statewide Planning Goals do not apply to the actions taken. (2) The amendments are consistent with applicable provisions of the Metro Plan and applicable adopted refinement plans. The proposed code amendments add regulations to the Land Use Code with the intent of protecting life and property from flood and drainage hazards, reducing the impacts that urbanization is having on the City’s water quality, protecting waterways in the headwater areas from erosive effects of increases in stormwater runoff, protecting the City’s stormwater system from oil and grease from stormwater runoff , and preventing stormwater pollution by eliminating pathways that may introduce pollutants into stormwater. Generally, the stormwater development standards fall into the following five categories: 1. EC 9.6790, Stormwater Destination , applies to all new development and redevelopment and is intended to protect life and property from flood and drainage hazards by maintaining the capacity of the City’s stormwater conveyance system through the establishment of destination regulations for stormwater runoff from development. This provision requires applicants proposing new development to submit documentation showing the stormwater destination into which the development will be disposed. The documentation must establish that the existing stormwater drainage facilities into which the stormwater from the proposed development will dispose has the capacity to handle the Exhibit A to Ordinance No. ___ Findings of Consistency