CITY COUNCIL: Resolution Adopting Best Management Practices Guidance Series for Storm Water Runoff

Meeting Date: 3 November 2009
Prepared by: Sean Conroy, Plng & Bldg Services Manager

City Council
Agenda Item Summary

Name: Consideration of a Resolution adopting the Best Management Practices Guidance Series for the management of storm water runoff as City Council Policy 09-1.

Description: The Guidance Series provides assistance in mitigating storm water runoff for projects developed in the City and is part of the Monterey Regional Storm Water Management Program.

Overall Cost:
City Funds: N/A
Grant Funds: N/A

Staff Recommendation: Adopt the Resolution.

Important Considerations: The City operates under the General Storm Water Permit issued to the Monterey Regional Storm Water Permit Participants Group by the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB). The RWQCB has requested that each jurisdiction adopt the BMP Guidance Series as part of the Regional Storm Water Management Program. The Guidance Series will supplement the City’s code requirements and will assist the City and project applicants comply with these requirements.

Decision Record: N/A

Reviewed by:

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Rich Guillen, City Administrator Date

CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA
CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION 2009-
CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES GUIDANCE SERIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF STORM WATER RUNOFF AS CITY COUNCIL POLICY 09-1

WHEREAS, The City of Carmel-by-the-Sea is a unique community that prides itself on its village character and environmental resources; and

WHEREAS, the City operates under the General Permit issued to the Monterey Regional Storm Water Permit Participants Group by the Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB); and

WHEREAS, the Best Management Practices Guidance Series (BMPGS) is found in
Appendix E of the Monterey Regional Storm Water Management Program; and

WHEREAS, the Guidance Series describes Best Management Practices designed to reduce the discharge of pollutants from the municipal separate storm sewer systems to the “maximum extent practicable,” to protect water quality, and to satisfy the appropriate water quality requirements of the Clean Water Act; and

WHEREAS, the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea has been implementing these BMPs as part of its permitting process; and

WHEREAS, the BMPGS will supplement the City’s existing requirements regarding storm water management.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA does hereby:

Adopt the attached Best Management Practices Guidance Series as City Council Policy 09-1.

PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA this 3rd day of November 2009 by the following roll call vote:

AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS:

SIGNED,

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SUE McCLOUD, MAYOR

ATTEST:

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Heidi Burch, City Clerk