Although these methods have been used around the city by developers and residents alike, there is no formal policy that incentivizes or encourages LID.<\/p>\n
Among some of the challenges, said Stormwater Program Manager Mark Senior, is the reliance on property owners to maintain these devices.<\/p>\n
The city already requires annual inspections for larger stormwater devices. Adding smaller stormwater controls on individual properties would exponentially increase the number of devices the city would have to audit.<\/p>\n
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Waldroup told Councilors that whatever they decide to do, they need to keep in mind that other municipalities are going to follow suit.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to understand the domino effect,\u201d said Councilor Russ Stephenson. \u201cI want to understand the secondary and cumulative impacts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Councilor Thomas Crowder was especially concerned with setting a precedent for other municipalities and relying on developers and property owners to maintain the devices.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not only worried about the precedent on other jurisdictions, but upstream,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat are folks upstream going to do regarding this?\u201d<\/p>\n
Crowder said he\u2019s in favor of LID in the city because it will help control flooding and increase water quality for Raleigh\u2019s downstream neighbors, but was concerned about it being used in the watershed.<\/p>\n
Councilors agreed that there are two separate issues: the first is using LID within city and the second is the city\u2019s watershed development policy.
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\nCity Manager Ruffin Hall said staff will put together some more information about a stakeholder group that can work together on a set of LID recommendations to be reviewed by the Stormwater Management Advisory Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raleigh City Councilors have started discussing the merits and problems with using performance-based standards for development in the watershed for the city\u2019s drinking water. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24029,"featured_media":20215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,48,15],"tags":[572,257,1224],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24029"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theraleighcommons.org\/raleighpublicrecord\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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