28-14 Amend Chp. 1339 Storm Water Mgmt

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(3) Provide perpetual management of storm water runoff quality and quan- tity. (4) Establish consistent technically feasible and operationally practical standards to achieve a level of storm water quantity and quality control that will minimize damage to public and private property and degrada- tion of water resources, and will promote and maintain the health, safe- ty, and welfare of the residents of the City. (5) Preserve, to the maximum extent practicable, the natural drainage char- acteristics of the building site. (6) Reduce the need for costly treatment and mitigation for the damage to and loss of water resources that are the result of inadequate storm water quality control. (7) Require the incorporation of water quality protection that encourages and promotes habitat preservation into the construction of storm water management practices. (8) Recharge the aquifers by requiring that commercial development or re- development lying within reach of subsurface soils classified as "UoB and UeA" shall be required to utilize post construction BMPs that pro- mote infiltration and recharge unless the design engineer evaluation proves a negative impact. (c) Scope: This regulation applies to development areas having new or relocat- ed projects involving highways, underground cables, pipelines, subdivi- sions, industrial projects, commercial projects, building activities on farms, redevelopment of urban areas and all other land uses not specifically ex- empted. This regulation does not apply to: (1) Land - disturbing activities related to producing agricultural crops or sil- viculture operations regulated by the Ohio agricultural sediment pollu- tion abatement rules (1501: 15 -3 -01 to 1501: 15 -3 -09 of the Ohio Ad- ministrative Code) and existing at the time of passage of this regula- tion. (2) Strip miring operations regulated by Chapter 1513 of the Ohio Revised Code and existing at the time of passage of this regulation. (3) Surface mining operations regulated by Chapter 1514 of the Ohio Re- vised Code and existing at the time of passage of this regulation. (4) Construction activities that do not include the installation of any imper- vious surface (e.g., soccer fields), abandoned mine reclamation activi- ties regulated by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, stream and wetland restoration activities, and wetland mitigation activities. (5) Linear construction projects (e.g., pipeline or utility line installation), which do not result in the installation of impervious surface and are in- dependent of other construction projects (not part of a larger common plan of development or sale). However, linear construction projects must be designed to minimize the number of stream crossings and the width of disturbance and achieve final stabilization of the disturbed ar- ea as defined in the definitions section of this regulation. 55