R-9473
City Council Meeting 1-25-00
Resolution Number 9473 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
Resolution of the City Council of the City of Santa Monica in Support of the Los Angeles
Regional Water Quality Control Board to Establish a Numerical Standard for Stormwater
Runoff Reduction in the Standard Urban Stormwater Mitigation Plan
WHEREAS, the City of Santa Monica has a Sustainable City program and a
General Plan Conservation Element that promote long-term efficiency and
environmental-responsibility in the use of all water resources, including urban runoff;
and
WHEREAS, the City supports and encourages efforts to maximize the amount of
rainfall and urban runoff put back into the ground and to minimize the runoff pollution that
enters the ocean; and
WHEREAS, the City?s Urban Runoff Pollution Control Ordinance requires a 20
percent reduction of total runoff for new development as well as significant reduction of
total runoff from new parking lots and is working to reduce total runoff and pollutants
entering the Santa Monica Bay; and
WHEREAS, numerous studies, design documents and a national database
demonstrate BMP effectiveness and successes, including significant reductions in
pollutants of concern; and
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WHEREAS, a numerical standard, which includes all portions of a new
development site including all roof areas and surface parking lots, is necessary in the
Standard Urban Stormwater Mitigation Plans (SUSMPs) to ensure that a minimum
baseline amount of runoff is captured for percolation, based on sound and widely
accepted principles of hydrology; and
WHEREAS, the up-front amount spent on BMPs is a small percentage of total
construction costs with region-wide benefits, and site-specific BMPs are more cost-
effective than ?end-of-the-pipe? mitigation and treatment; and
WHEREAS, each new development project must become part of the urban runoff
solution and not continue to be part of the growing problem;
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City of Santa Monica hereby formally supports the Los
Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board efforts to establish a numerical
standard for stormwater runoff reduction in the Standard Urban Storm Water Mitigation
Plan, thus helping to restore and preserve the long-term health of the Santa Monica
Bay, which is vital in protecting the health of both residents and visitors.
SECTION 2. The City of Santa Monica hereby formally supports the December
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7, 1999, SUSMP Draft prepared by the Regional Board Executive Officer prior to
proposed amendments which would considerably weaken the requirements through the
exclusion from the numerical standard of roof runoff and most surface parking lot runoff
as well as delay full implementation of the requirements, all of which would dramatically
compromise the goal of maximizing the amount of stormwater runoff diverted into the
ground.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution, and
henceforth and thereafter the same shall be in full force and effect.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
S/______________________________
MARSHA JONES MOUTRIE
City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 25th of January, 2000
S/_____________________
Ken Genser, Mayor
I, Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Resolution 9473 (CCS) was duly adopted at a meeting of the Santa
Monica City Council held on the 25th of January, 2000, by the following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Holbrook, Rosenstein, McKeown, Feinstein,
Bloom, Mayor Pro Tem OConnor, Mayor Genser
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Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: None
ATTEST:
S/_______________________
Maria M. Stewart
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