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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ORDINANCE 07.05 <br />CITY OF ELK RIVER <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ELK RIVER ADDING ARTICLE VII, <br />STORM WATER MANAGEMENT, TO CHAPTER 30 OF THE ELK RIVER <br />MUNICIPAL CODE <br /> <br />Section I. Chapter 30 of the Elk River Municipal Code is hereby amended to add <br />thereto Article VII, as follows: <br /> <br />ARTICLE VII. STORM WATER MANAGEMENT <br /> <br />Sec. 30-2172. Generally. <br />(a) The purpose of this division is to set forth minimum requirements for storm water <br />management to diminish threats to public health, safety, public and private property and <br />natural resources of the community by establishing standards that will: <br /> <br />1. Protect life and property from dangers associated with flooding; <br /> <br />2. Protect public and private property from damage resulting from runoff or erosion; <br /> <br />3. Ensure site design minimizes the generation of storm water and maximizes pervious <br />areas for storm water treatment; <br /> <br />4. Promote regional storm water management by watershed; <br /> <br />5. Protect, maintain and/or restore water quality from nutrients, pathogens, toxics and <br />debris; <br /> <br />6. Promote inftltration and groundwater recharge; <br /> <br />7. Achieve a sixty (60) percent reduction in phosphorus load rates to waters compared <br />to no controls for all new development, and a mean of forty (40) percent reduction <br />in phosphorus load for redevelopment areas that do not currendy meet the sixty (60) <br />percent reduction standard and for street reconstruction where practicable. <br /> <br />(b) No person shall develop any land for residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional uses <br />without having provided the storm water management measures set forth herein to control <br />or manage runoff from such development. All water entering the storm drain system <br />generated on any developed and undeveloped lands, unless explicidy exempted by the city, <br />shall be protected from illegal disposal/discharge and illegal connections. <br /> <br />Section 30-2173. Definitions. <br />Unless specifically defined below, the words or phrases used in this ordinance shall have the same <br />meaning as they have in common usage. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in <br />the present tense include the future tense, words in the plural number include the singular number, <br /> <br />I <br />