Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on an Ordinance Adopting Revisions to the Stormwater Management Ordinance
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Operational Excellence
MEETING DATE: May 2, 2017
DEPARTMENT: Development Services / Engineering
CONTACT: Mark Hines, PE, Director of Engineering
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approval of Ordinance.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* City staff has several recommended changes to the Stormwater Management Ordinance to better address the stormwater management needs of the City.
* One significant change is rounding all floodplain elevations to the nearest 0.1 feet (just over an inch).
* Another significant change is requiring detention ponds in new developments to limit post-project peak discharge to the pre-project level for both the 5-year storm and the 100-year storm.
* This item was discussed at the 3/20/17 City Council Work Session. Several minor changes have been made to address comments from that meeting.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
* Regarding the rounding of all floodplain elevations to the nearest 0.1 feet:
* Hydrology, by its very nature, involves a high degree of uncertainty.
* Assumptions are used in hydrology calculations for rainfall amounts, rainfall distributions, times of concentration, impervious cover percentages, topography, Manning's n values, and so on. Because they are based on assumptions, it must be acknowledged that results obtained from hydrology calculations are not extremely precise.
* It is, therefore, recommended that floodplain elevations be rounded to the nearest 0.1 feet.
* Regarding detention of the 5-year storm event:
* From 2006 to 2014, new detention ponds in McKinney were required to limit both the 10-year and 100-year peak discharges to pre-project levels and release the 1-year storm over a 24-hour period.
* With the intention of simplifying requirements and making the development process more predictable, the 2014 revision to the ordinance required that detention ponds only need to limit the 100-year peak dis...
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