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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />ORDINANCE NO. 2016 — 97 <br />BY: Mayor Kennedy <br />AN ORDINANCE REPLACING EXISTING CHAPTER 928 (POST <br />CONSTRUCTION STORMWA TER MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS) <br />OF THE STREETS, UTILITIES AND PUBLIC SERVICES CODE <br />WITH NEW CHAPTER 928 (COMPREHENSIVE STORMWATER <br />MANAGEMENT) TO MEET NEW AND UPDATED REQUIREMENTS <br />OF THE OHIO EPA ASSOCIATED WITH NATIONAL POLLUTANT <br />DISCHARGE ELIMINATIONSYSTEM (NPDES) PERMIT PROGRAM <br />REQUIREMENTS. <br />WHEREAS, flooding is a significant threat to property and public health and safety and <br />stormwater management lessens flood damage by reducing and holding runoff and releasing it <br />slowly; and <br />WHEREAS, streambank erosion is a significant threat to property and public health and <br />safety and stormwater management slows runoff and reduces its erosive force; and <br />WHEREAS, insufficient control of stormwater can result in significant damage to <br />receiving water resources, impairing the capacity of these areas to sustain aquatic systems and <br />their associated aquatic life -use designations; and <br />WHEREAS, land development projects and associated increases in impervious cover <br />alter the hydrologic response of local watersheds and increase stormwater runoff rates and <br />volumes, flooding, stream channel erosion, and sediment transport and deposition; and <br />WHEREAS, stormwater runoff contributes to increased quantities of pollutants to water <br />resources; and <br />WHEREAS, stormwater runoff, stream channel erosion, and nonpoint source pollution <br />can be controlled and minimized through the regulation of runoff from land development <br />projects; and <br />WHEREAS, the United States Environmental Protection Agency has approved a Total <br />Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for bacteria and dissolved oxygen in the Black River (main <br />stem) watershed; and <br />WHEREAS, there are watershed -wide efforts to reduce flooding, erosion, and water <br />quality problems in the Rocky River, Black River, and Lake Erie Tributaries, and to protect and <br />enhance the water resources of the Rocky River, Black River, and Lake Erie Tributaries; and <br />