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_ ORDINANCE NO. 2016-24 ~, INTRODUCED.BY: Mayor Bodnar and Council as a Whole AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 1128 OF THE MAYFIELD VILLAGE CODIFIED ORDINANCES RELATIVE TO COMPREHENSIVE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT WHEREAS, flooding is a significant threat to property and public health and safety and stormwater management lessens flood damage by reducing and holding runoff and releasing it slowly; and, WHEREAS, streambank erosion is a significant threat to property and public health and safety and stormwater management slows runoff and reduces its erosive force; and, WHEREAS, insufficient control of stormwater can result in significant damage to receiving water resources, impairing the capacity of these areas to sustain aquatic systems and their associated aquatic life use designations; and, WHEREAS, land development projects and associated increases in impervious cover alter the hydrologic response of local watersheds and increase stormwater runoff rates and volumes, flooding, stream channel erosion, and sediment transport and deposition; and, WHEREAS, stormwater runoff contributes to increased quantities of pollutants to water resources; and, WHEREAS, stormwater runoff, stream channel erosion, and nonpoint source pollution can be controlled and minimized through the regulation of runoff from land development projects; and, WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has approved a Total Maximum Daily Load for phosphorus, nitrogen, habitat, bacteria, TSS in the Chagrin River and phosphorus, habitat, TSS Euclid Creek River watersheds; WHEREAS, there are watershed-wide efforts to reduce flooding, erosion, and water quality problems in the Chagrin River and Euclid Creek River and to protect and enhance the' water resources of the Chagrin River and Euclid Creek River; arid, WHEREAS, the Village of Mayfield finds that the lands and waters within its borders -- are finite natural resources and that their quality is of primary importance in promoting and maintaining public health and safety within its borders; and,