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SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES: Sec. B11 1/2-28. Approved storm water pollutant site design BMPs.

Copyrighted by SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE & Municipal Code Corporation, 1998.

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Sec. B11 1/2-28. Approved storm water pollutant site design BMPs.

A. Minimize land disturbance.

B. Minimize impervious surfaces.

C. Minimize the impact of parking lots, including parking space maximization within a given area, use of landscaping as a storm water treatment feature, and give consideration to the use of pervious pavement, etc.

D. Cluster structures and pavement to preserve open space and/or vegetated areas.

E. Connect roof downspouts to splash blocks or "bubble-ups", and conduct storm water to vegetated or landscaped areas, instead of directly to the street gutter or storm drain.

F. Installation of micro-detention areas, including landscape detention and the use of cisterns or dry wells for infiltration, where conditions allow.

G. Preserving open space.

H. Maintaining and/or restoring riparian areas and wetlands as project amenities, including establishing vegetated buffer zones to reduce runoff into waterways, allow for potential stream channel changes, and other mitigations.

I. Incorporating supplemental controls to minimize changes in the volume, flow rate, timing, and duration of runoff, for a given precipitation event or events. These changes may include mitigating the cumulative hydromodification caused by site development. Measures may include landscape-based measures or other features to reduce the runoff velocity, increase runoff detention, and/or increase runoff infiltration.

(Ord. No. NS-517.74, § 1, 10-17-06)

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