§ 36-338. Requirements for waiver.

The following requirements must be met to obtain a waiver under this article. The owner must:

(1)

Hold a preapplication conference and site inspection of the original tract with city staff;

(2)

Perform and submit a comprehensive environmental assessment and ranking of all environmentally and culturally valuable features within and adjacent to the original tract;

(3)

Submit plans and meet engineering, fiscal security, and inspection requirements for water quality measures for construction activities, post-construction water quality controls and their maintenance;

(4)

Set aside 50 percent of the original tract located so as to conserve the highest ranking conservation areas and to maximize connectivity to high ranking environmentally and culturally valuable features on adjacent tract; provided, however, the owner need not provide for any public access to conservation areas;

(5)

Provide for a layout that maximizes clustering of development and minimizes the scope and impacts of infrastructure while adequately providing for health and safety;

(6)

Submit a plan for perpetual management and maintenance of conservation areas, including identification of an entity obligated to perform management and maintenance and the means of financing it; and

(7)

Must provide for low impact design, including:

a.

Minimization of light pollution;

b.

Use of native vegetation;

c.

A program of fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide use;

d.

Rain water harvesting or other water conservation measures;

e.

Stormwater quality management;

f.

Protection of riparian corridors, habitat, groundwater recharge; and

g.

Other environmentally valuable features.

(Code 1990, ch. 8, § 6(I)(10))