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COMMENTS AND RESPONSES BY TOPIC AREA Topic; Protection of Natural Functions of Waterways Map all waterways, and protect them from filling. County should adopt IWQ inside UGB, outside city limits. [SC -21, [SC -141, [RR -14] [RR -15,1 Waterways are very important components of the RR -SC stormwater system, as is the case in each of Eugene's six other stormwater basins. Evidence of the importance of waterways to the City's stormwater system is Policy 1.1 of the Comprehensive Stormwater Management Plan (CSWMP, adopted by City Council in 1993) which states: Incorporate the beneficial functions (flood control, stormwater conveyance, water quality treatment) of natural resources into the City's storm drainage system. In total, the City and County have applied land use /zoning regulations to a system of local waterways inside the urban growth boundary (approximately 100 miles in length) which meet federal and state requirements and local policies related to water quality and natural resources. The City recently applied waterway protections to 13.5 miles of waterways in the form of the /WQ Water Quality Overlay Zone, adopted by City Council in March 2009. Prior to that, in 2005 and 2006, the City Council and the Board of County Commissioners each adopted a /WR Water Resources Overlay Zone that protects waterways within the Eugene UGB for their significant habitat value. Prior to that, in 1995, the City Council adopted waterside setback ordinances (/WB Wetland Buffer Overlay Zone, /WP Waterside Protection Overlay Zone) in the west Eugene wetlands area to protect wetlands and waterways in west Eugene. A fact sheet describing local waterway protections through land use and zoning overlays is included in this response to comments. Additional waterway protections through land use and zoning regulations are not under consideration by the City at this time or in the foreseeable future. Lane County is constrained by resources to enforce greater protections of minor waterways. However it is presently establishing a working group in conjunction with watershed councils and other interested parties to analyze and make recommended changes to the County's riparian protection ordinance applicable outside of the urban growth boundary. While significant waterway protection has been achieved over the last decade through local land use regulation, the protections do not apply to all waterways. Smaller waterways may be categorized as wetlands and may therefore be protected to some degree by federal and state wetland fill regulations. 4 RR = River Road Community Organization comment, on annotated Attachment B. RR -SC Stormwater Basin Plan Comments PgA of 17