§ 23.06.100. Water Quality.

a.

Standards for Preventing Polluted Runoff Impacts from Non-point Sources. New development shall be designed and located to avoid significant adverse impacts to wetlands, streams, tidepools, sensitive plants, riparian vegetation, agricultural lands, and other environmentally sensitive habitat areas from surface water runoff and wastewater. The following shall apply to new development:

(1)

Where potentially significant adverse impacts might occur, new development shall assess potential pollutants resulting from the development project, as well as the potential impacts of those pollutants on nearby waterways and agricultural lands. Proposed new development shall furthermore be consistent with the Central Coast Basin Plan's current water quality objectives for ocean waters, inland surface waters, enclosed bays, and estuaries.

Where polluted surface water runoff might occur as the result of a proposed development project, the proposed project shall be evaluated for potential impacts to critical waterway components, such as: dissolved oxygen, pH, suspended material, oil/grease, sediment, turbidity, temperature, toxicity, pesticides, chemicals, etc. Where applicable, measures shall be developed and implemented to avoid and mitigate potentially significant adverse impacts (e.g., establish a vegetation "filter" strip between a waterway and development).

[Added 2006, Ord. 3082]